Breaking the Curse: the Willie Lynch Legacy
Breaking the Curse: the Willie Lynch Legacy
William (Willie) Lynch was a British slave owner from the West Indies. He came to Virginia in the year of 1712. His reasons were to teach slave owners his methods of how to control their slaves, and on the banks of the James River, he did so. He taught them a method of keeping the body and taking the mind. He told the slave owners that they were to cause the young men, old men, and females to distrust each other. However, they were to make the slaves trust and depend on them (the owners) and their families. Willie used fear, distrust, envy, beatings, and going as far as murdering the male slaves in front of the women and children. He did so to control their minds, to make them think how he wanted them to. To make them do as he said. He believed that his plan was fool proof and that it would continue on for at least 300 more years, and to this day, it still has a hold on us all. As a result of Lynch, we have been and still are reliant on things such as welfare, those who give us jobs, the media, and much more. Things like the media…….. give us information. They keep us coming back for more, but we must learn not to. We need to overpower the thirst we have to keep going back. Most of those affected by the “curse of Willie Lynch”…….. have been enlightened and are independent, but some have not been. Those who have not become independent do not infer, they do not listen, but soon they will. They will because we have different people and forces out there such as the NAACP, churches, and mothers and fathers. These groups that are working to break the “curse” tell you that you are your own leader. You are your own person, and as a mother or father would say, do not let anyone walk on top of you, tell you how to think, or command you to do as they say. We must believe and listen because if we do not, we will continue to be at a standstill. Nonetheless, several may not believe and say
William (Willie) Lynch was a British slave owner from the West Indies. He came to Virginia in the year of 1712. His reasons were to teach slave owners his methods of how to control their slaves, and on the banks of the James River, he did so. He taught them a method of keeping the body and taking the mind. He told the slave owners that they were to cause the young men, old men, and females to distrust each other. However, they were to make the slaves trust and depend on them (the owners) and their families. Willie used fear, distrust, envy, beatings, and going as far as murdering the male slaves in front of the women and children. He did so to control their minds, to make them think how he wanted them to. To make them do as he said. He believed that his plan was fool proof and that it would continue on for at least 300 more years, and to this day, it still has a hold on us all. As a result of Lynch, we have been and still are reliant on things such as welfare, those who give us jobs, the media, and much more. Things like the media…….. give us information. They keep us coming back for more, but we must learn not to. We need to overpower the thirst we have to keep going back. Most of those affected by the “curse of Willie Lynch”…….. have been enlightened and are independent, but some have not been. Those who have not become independent do not infer, they do not listen, but soon they will. They will because we have different people and forces out there such as the NAACP, churches, and mothers and fathers. These groups that are working to break the “curse” tell you that you are your own leader. You are your own person, and as a mother or father would say, do not let anyone walk on top of you, tell you how to think, or command you to do as they say. We must believe and listen because if we do not, we will continue to be at a standstill. Nonetheless, several may not believe and say