*WARNING: STRONG
LANGUAGE*
The following is
a speech that was said to be given by a man named Willie Lynch on how to create slaves. There is debate as to whether the speech was actually
given. I have no concerns over that matter. My focus is on the systems that are
described to achieve desired outcomes. These methods are still in effect today but on a much broader level. It is not included to provoke hatred but rather for the reader to see how easily subjects can be studied and manipulated in almost any manner and at any time.
THE WILLIE LYNCH
LETTER
Greetings,
Gentlemen, I
greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of
the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some
of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest
plantation in the West Indies, where I have experimented with some of the
newest, and still the oldest, methods for control of slaves. Ancient Rome would
envy us if my program is implemented.
As our boat sailed south on the James
River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish, I
saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of
wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers,
you are here using the tree and the rope on occasions. I caught the whiff of a
dead slave hanging from a tree, a couple miles back. You are not only losing
valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, and slaves are running
away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit,
you suffer occasional fires, and your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know
what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate
your problems; I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them.
In my
bag here, I HAVE A FULL PROOF METHOD FOR CONTROLLING YOUR BLACK SLAVES. I
guarantee every one of you that, if installed correctly, IT WILL CONTROL THE
SLAVES FOR AT LEAST 300 HUNDRED YEARS. My method is simple. Any member of your
family or your overseer can use it. I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES
AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR
DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES. These methods have worked on my modest
plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this
simple little list of differences and think about them. On top of my list is
“Age”, but only because it starts with an “a”. The second is “COLOR” or shade.
There is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZES OF PLANTATIONS, STATUS on plantations,
ATTITUDE of owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East,
West, North, South, have fine hair, course hair or is tall or short. Now that
you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action, but
before that, I shall assure you DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST AND ENVY
STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION. The Black slaves after
receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self-refueling and
self-generating for HUNDREDS of years, maybe THOUSANDS. Don’t forget, you must
pitch the OLD black male vs. the YOUNG black male, and the YOUNG black male
against the OLD black male. You must use the DARK skin slaves vs. the LIGHT
skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the DARK skin slaves. You must use
the FEMALE vs. the MALE, and the MALE vs. the FEMALE. You must also have white
servants and overseers distrust all Blacks. But it is NECESSARY THAT YOUR
SLAVES TRUST AND DEPEND ON US. THEY MUST LOVE, RESPECT AND TRUST ONLY US.
Gentlemen, these kits are you keys to control Use them. Have your wives and
children use them, never miss an opportunity. IF USED INTENSIVELY FOR ONE YEAR,
THE SLAVES THEMSELVES WILL REMAIN PERPETUALLY DISTRUSTFUL.
Thank you,
Gentlemen.”
LET’S MAKE A
SLAVE
It was the
interest and business of slave holders to study human nature and the slave
nature in particular, with a view to practical results. I and many of them attained
astonishing proficiency in this direction. They had to deal not with earth,
wood and stone, but with men and by every regard, they had their own safety and
prosperity they needed to know the material on which they were to work,
conscious of the injustice and wrong they were every hour perpetuating and
knowing what they themselves would do. Where they the victims of such wrongs?
They were constantly looking for the first signs of the dreaded retribution.
They watched therefore with skilled and practiced eyes and learned to read with
great accuracy, the state of mind and heart of the slave, through his sable
face. Unusual sobriety, apparent abstractions, sullenness and indifference
indeed, any mood out of the common was afforded ground for suspicion and
inquiry. Frederick Douglas LET’S MAKE A SLAVE is a study of the scientific
process of man-breaking and slave-making. It describes the rationale and
results of the Anglo Saxons’ ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave
relationship. LET’S MAKE A SLAVE “The
Original and Development of a Social Being Called ‘The Negro’. Let us make a
slave. What do we need? First of all, we need a black nigger man, a pregnant
nigger woman and her baby nigger boy. Second, we will use the same basic
principle that we use in breaking a horse, combined with some more sustaining
factors. What we do with horses is that we break them from one form of life to
another, that is, we reduce them from their natural state in nature. Whereas
nature provides them with the natural capacity to take care of their offspring,
we break that natural string of independence from them and thereby create a
dependency status, so that we may be able to get from them useful production
for our business and pleasure.
CARDINAL PRINCIPLES FOR MAKING A NEGRO
For fear that
our future generations may not understand the principles of breaking both of
the beasts together, the nigger and the horse. We understand that short range
planning economics results in periodic economic chaos; so that to avoid turmoil
in the economy, it requires us to have breadth and depth in long range
comprehensive planning, articulating both skill sharp perceptions. We lay down
the following principles for long range comprehensive planning. Both horse and
niggers are no good to the economy in the wild or natural state. Both must be
BROKEN and TIED together for orderly production. For orderly future, special
and particular attention must be paid to the FEMALE and the YOUNGEST offspring.
Both must be CROSSBRED to produce a variety and division of labor. Both must be
taught to respond to a peculiar new LANGUAGE. Psychological and physical
instruction of CONTAINMENT must be created for both. We hold the six cardinal
principles as truth to be self0evident, based upon following the discourse concerning
the economics of breaking and tying the horse and the nigger together, all
inclusive of the six principles laid down above. NOTE: Neither principle alone
will suffice for good economics. All principles must be employed for orderly
good of the nation. Accordingly, both a wild horse and a wild or natural nigger
is dangerous even if captured, for they will have the tendency to seek their
customary freedom and in doing so, might kill you in your sleep. You cannot
rest. They sleep while you are awake, and are awake while you are asleep. They
are DANGEROUS near the family house and it requires too much labor to watch
them away from the house. Above all, you cannot get them to work in this
natural state. Hence, both the horse and the nigger must be broken; that is
breaking them from one form of mental life to another. KEEP THE BODY, TAKE THE
MIND! In other words, break the will to resist. Now the breaking process is the
same for both the horse and the nigger, only slightly varying in degrees. But,
as we said before, there is an art in long range economic planning. YOU MUST
KEEP YOUR EYE AND THOUGHTS ON THE FEMALE and the OFFSPRING of the horse and the
nigger. A brief discourse in offspring development will shed light on the key
to sound economic principles. Pay little attention to the generation of
original braking, but CONCENTRATE ON FUTURE GENERATION. Therefore, if you break
the FEMALE mother, she will BREAK the offspring in its early years of
development; and when the offspring is old enough to work, she will deliver it
up to you, for her normal female protective tendencies will have been lost in
the original breaking process. For example, take the case of the wild stud
horse, a female horse and an already infant horse and compare the breaking
process with two captured nigger males in their natural state, a pregnant
nigger woman with her infant offspring. Take the stud horse, break him for
limited containment. Completely break the female horse until she becomes very
gentle, whereas you or anybody can rider her in comfort. Breed the mare and the
stud until you have the desired offspring. Then, you can turn the stud to
freedom until you need him again. Train the female horse whereby she will eat
out of your hand and she will in turn train the infant horse to eat out of your
hand, also. When it comes to breaking the uncivilized nigger, use the same
process, but vary the degree and step up the pressure, so as to do a complete
reversal of the mind. Take the meanest and most restless nigger, strip him of
his clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, the female and the nigger
infant, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse faced in
opposite directions, set him afire and beat both horses to pull him apart in
front of the remaining niggers. The next step is to take a bullwhip and beat
the remaining nigger males to the point of death in front of the female and
infant. Don’t kill him, but PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN HIM, for he can be useful
for future breeding.
THE BREAKING
PROCESS OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN
Take the female
and run a series of tests on her to see if she will submit to your desires
willingly. Test her in every way because she is the most important factor for
good economics. If she shows any sign of resistance in submitting completely to
your will, do not hesitate to use the bullwhip on her to extract the last bit
of (b***h) out of her. Take care not to kill her, for in doing so, you spoil
good economics. When in complete submission, she will train her offspring
in
the early years to submit to labor when they become of age. Understanding is
the best thing. Therefore, we shall go deeper into this area of the subject
matter concerning what we have produced here in this breaking process of the
female nigger. We have reversed the relationship, in her natural uncivilized
state, she would have a strong dependency on the uncivilized nigger male and
she would have a limited protective tendency toward her independent male
offspring and would raise male offspring to be dependent like her. Nature had
provided for this type of balance. We reversed nature by burning and pulling a
civilized nigger apart and bullwhipping the other to the point of death, all in
her presence. By her being left alone, unprotected, with the MALE IMAGE DESTROYED,
the ordeal caused her to move from her psychologically dependent state to a
frozen, independent state. In this frozen, psychological state of independence,
she will raise her male and female offspring in reversed roles. For FEAR of the
young male’s life, she will psychologically train him to be MENTALLY WEAK and
DEPENDENT, but PHYSICALLY STRONG. Because she has become psychologically
independent, she will train her FEMALE offspring to be psychologically
independent. What have you got? You’ve got the nigger WOMAN OUT FRONT AND THE
nigger MAN BEHIND AND SCARED. This is a perfect situation of sound sleep and
economics. Before the breaking process, we had to be alertly on guard at all
times. Now, we can sleep soundly, for out of frozen fear his woman stands guard
for us. He cannot get past her early slave-molding process. He is a good tool,
now ready to be tied to the horse at a tender age. By the time a nigger boy
reaches the age of 16, he is soundly broken in and ready for a long life of
sound and efficient work and the reproduction of a unit of good labor force.
Continually through the breaking of uncivilized savage niggers, by throwing the
nigger female savage into a frozen psychological state of independence, by
killing the protective male image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind
of the nigger male slave, we have created an orbiting cycle that turns on its
own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and re-shifts the position of the
male and female slaves. We show what we mean by example. Take the case of the
two economic slave units and examine them close.
THE NEGRO
MARRIAGE
We breed two
nigger males with two nigger females. Then, we take the nigger male away from
them and keep them moving and working. Say one nigger female bears a nigger female
and the other bears a nigger male; both nigger females (being without influence
of the nigger male image, frozen with an independent psychology) will raise
their offspring into reverse positions. The one with the female offspring will
teach her to be like herself, independent and negotiable (we negotiate with
her, by her, he negotiates at will). The one with the nigger male offspring,
she being frozen subconsciously fear for his life, will raise him to be
mentally weak, but physically strong; in other words, body over mind. Now, in a
few years when these two offspring become fertile for early reproduction, we
will mate and breed them and continue the cycle. That is good, sound and long
range comprehensive planning.
WARNING:
POSSIBLE INTERLOPING NEGATIVES
Earlier, we
talked about the non-economic good of the horse and the nigger in their wild
state; we talked about the principle of braking and tying them together for
orderly production. Furthermore, we talked about paying particular attention to
the female savage and her offspring for orderly future planning, then more
recently we state by reversing the positions of the female and male savages, we
created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever unless a
phenomenon occurred and re-shifts positions of the male and female savages. Our
experts warned us about the possibility of phenomenon occurring, for they say
the mind has a strong drive to correct and re-correct itself over a period of
time if it can touch some substantial original historical base; and they
advised us the best way to deal with this phenomenon is to shave of the brute’s
mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomena illusions, so that each
illusion will twirl in its own orbit, something similar to floating balls in a
vacuum. This creation of multiplicity of illusions entails the principal of
cross-breeding the nigger and the horse as we stated above, the purpose of
which is to create a diversified division of labor; thereby creating different
levels of labor and different values of illusion at each connecting level of
labor. The result of which is the severance of the points of original
beginnings for each sphere illusion. Since we feel that the subject matter may
get more complicated as we proceed in laying down our economic plan concerning
the purpose, reason and effect of cross-breeding horses and niggers, we shall
lay down the following definition terms for future generations. Orbiting cycle
means a thing turning in a given path. Axis means upon which or around which a
body turns. Phenomenon means something beyond ordinary conception and inspires
awe and wonder. Multiplicity means a great number. Means a globe.
Cross-breeding a horse means taking a horse and breeding it with an ass and you
get a dumb, backward, ass long-mule that is not reproductive or productive by
itself. Crossbreeding niggers mean taking so many drops of good white blood and
putting them into as many nigger women as possible, varying the drops by
various tones that you want and then letting them breed with each other until
another circle of color appears as you desire. What this means is this: Put the
niggers and the horse in a breeding pot, mix in some asses and some good white
blood and what do you get? You got a multiplicity of colors of ass backward, unusual
niggers, running, tied to backward ass long-headed mules, the one productive of
itself, the other sterile. (The one constant, the other dying, we keep the
nigger constant for we may replace the mules for another tool) both horse and
nigger tied to each other, neither knowing where the other came from and
neither productive for itself, nor without each other.
CONTROLLED LANGUAGE
Crossbreeding
completed, for further severance from their original beginning, WE MUST
COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE THE MOTHER TONGUE of both the new nigger and the new
mule, and institutes a new language that involves the new life’s work of both.
You know language is a peculiar institution. It leads to the heart of a people.
The more a foreigner knows about the language of another country the more he is
able to move through all levels of that society. Therefore, if the foreigner is
an enemy of the country, to the extent that he knows the body language, to that
extent is the country vulnerable to attack or invasion of a foreign culture.
For example, if you take a slave, if you teach him all about your language, he
will know all your secrets, and then he is no more a slave, for you can’t fool
him any longer, and BEING A FOOL IS ONE OF THE BASIC INGREDIENTS TO THE
MAINTENANCE OF THE SLAVERY SYSTEM. For example, if you told a slave that he
must perform in getting out “our crops” and he knows the language well, he
would know that “our crops” didn’t mean “our crops” and the slavery system
would break down, for he would relate on the basis of what “our crops” really
meant. So be careful in setting up the new language; for the slaves would soon
be in your house, talking to you “man to man” and that is death to the economic
system. In addition, the definitions of words or terms are only a minute part
of the process. Values are created and transported by communication through the
body of language. A total society has many interconnected value systems. All
the values in society have bridges of language to connect them for an orderly
working society. But for these language bridges, these value systems would
sharply clash and cause internal strife or civil war, the degree of the
conflict being determined by the magnitude of the issues or relative opposing
strength in whatever form. For example, if you put a slave in a hog pen and
train him to live there and incorporate him to value it as a way of life
completely, the biggest problem you would have out of him is that he would
worry about provisions to keep the hog pen clean, or the same hog pen and make a
slip and incorporate something in his language whereby he comes to value a
house more than his hog pen, you got a problem. He will soon be in your house.
Additional Note:
“Henry Berry, speaking in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832, described
the situation as it existed in many parts of the South at this time: “We have,
as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may enter their (the
slaves) minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work
would be complete; they would then be on a level with the beasts of the field
and we should be safe. I am not certain that we would not do it, if we could
find out the process and that on the plea of necessity.” From Brown America,
The story of a New Race by Edwin R. Embree. 1931 The Viking Press.