Who is Willie Lynch?
I have given my students an assignment on who Willie Lynch is and what he had done to society to gain popularity. And I thought I’d do some research myself.
William (Willie) Lynch, a British slave owner in the West Indies, and came to America to advise American slave owners how to keep their slaves restricted, according to the essay in Brother Man: The Odyssey of Black Men in America – an Anthology. Actually, Lynch or Lynch Law is credited to him. The lynching initially referred to the hanging of the black man. William Lynch’s Speech or Letter is of unknown origin that attracted a great deal of attention when it was released on the Internet in the 1990s. It was said to be addressed to an audience on the shore of the James River in Virginia in 1712 regarding the control of slaves in the colony. William Lynch was the speaker who was summoned to Virginia in 1712, due to some slave revolts in the area prior to his visit, and his dubious reputation for being an authoritarian and strict slave owner. Believers in the substantiality of William Lynch’s speech called it mental slavery.
The hatred among the slaves was a deep division in the knowledge of the skin color of the slaves; this was the cause of the alleged Lynch method. The light-skinned blacks had a better price according to the slavery conditions given to this doctrine. They were allowed to perform jobs that needed power over other slaves and were usually assigned to them in the slave master’s house. While dark-skinned slaves are tied to the fields, doing backbreaking work, and unlike light-skinned ones, they cannot enjoy the luxury that lighter-skinned slaves get. Lynch’s executions of the divide and conquer control method caused discontent among the slaves. The division between house and country slaves is historically wrong, as the slaves employed in plantation households were a subset of non-farm slaves, including artisans such as carpenters and masons, and were under white supervision who those of the field.
The Haitian revolution led by a non-estate slave, Toussaint L’Ouverture, was one of the most successful slave revolts in history. Louis Farrakhan cites Willie Lynch’s alleged plan posed as an impediment to unity among African Americans. The Willie Lynch Doctrine, a document that was distributed to plantation owners and politicians in the United States, advocates how to turn a man into a slave. This served as the foundation for the current self-destructive life young people live today. Causing your own destiny and showing your children to do the same. The false realities that you hold onto and base your entire life on are an endless cycle. The doctrine uses principles like brainwashing and mind control. In reality, slave owners were instructed to use public persecution and unworthiness to create fear in black society and demolish the masculine image in the mind of black women.
They were subjected to such persecution as being dragged by the horse with their legs tied, and then setting it on fire and being torn to pieces by a horse in front of his wife. Like today, the black community continues to be dragged in in the same way that Lynch’s doctrine used to be, it shows how racism still exists. That is why the black woman raises her sons to be physically strong and her daughters mentally prepared. So that, when the time came, they could defend themselves as the riots had shown. For example, there are tendencies for authorities to summarily address the bias of minority suspects in both sentencing and sentencing. This is also shown in the demonization of young black people by the media and the conception of black crime, since it is perceived in cases of discrimination based on racial profiling, they are all weak messages that it is very difficult to see in the actuality. Like African American history, this will not only have an unfair but also eternally damaging consequence to society.
A really difficult time for everyone and it saddens me to think about what happened during his time.