The following is part of speech that was made by slave owner in the 1700's. I think this is were Prince got the Lynch comments from on TRC and the routine that he used in the ONA concerts. I wish he had taken the time to explain it since it upset people but, I hope by posting it here everyone can see that Prince was really bringing up the nature of slavery which was to pit blacks against one another. Please do not take offense to this post as this was written in the 1700's.



This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there.The term "lynching" is derived
from his last name.

Table Of Contents
Greetings Lets Make A Slave Cardinal Principals For Making A Negro
The Breaking Process Of The African Women The Negro Marriage Unit Controlled Language


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's 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, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, You suffer occasional fires, 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 HUNDREDS 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 it's there 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 a outline of action, but before that, I shall assure you that 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 you white servants and over- seers 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 your keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. IF USED INTENSELY FOR ONE YEAR, THE SLAVES THEMSELVES WILL REMAIN PERPETUALLY DISTRUSTFUL. Thank you gentlemen."

So sad...makes me

also

laurarichardson said:

I think some people would have been upset regardless.

Unbelievable, Unthinkable, and Ungodly


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[This message was edited Tue Aug 27 19:14:44 PDT 2002 by EchoOfMySoul]

Thank you Laura for posting this.

Many people didn't believe me when on earlier race posts, I said that the problems facing the black community were in fact an organized form of control, started during slavery. These same effects described hundreds of years ago can still be seen all over the black community, and we didn't get this way by choice. Some of the things decribed are STILL going on today.

Hopefully people will see that those of us who want reparations (not checks for all blacks, but funding toward the correction of the social ills of my community) are not crazy in believing that the state we're in has been planned all along.

Keep fighting the battle...maybe one day justice will be done.

Verging on general discussion but yes Willie's infamous speech coupled with the negative connotations of the word "lynch" in terms of the lynchings that took place in Jim crow era.

Just comparing being forced to take a negative name to a beautiful inherited name like "Rosenblum" etc essentially though.

EchoOfMySoul said:

Ungodly? Willie and company were the good, Christian majority of America which have survived and multiplied to this very day...

The ol' divide and concur...!

You know what the saddest thing about that story is...

IT WORKED!

African-Americans/Black people are still divided today on those same differences...

We kill each other...

Black men call black women bitches! De-face them, and turn them into objects (see any Rap video)

I know some light-skinned blacks, that hate dark-skinned ones, and Vice a Versa...now ain't that a bitch!

A told a group of freshmen at a seminar: "Light-skinned, dark-skinned, doesn't matter, if this was the 1500's we'd all be slaves"

One of the freshmen raised their hand and said: "Actually, You'd be out in the field, because your dark-skinned, I'd be in the big house, wearing good clothes, cuz I'm yellow..."

I said "yeah, and ironing 'Masta's' draws!" She didn't get the point.

Divided, but not yet concurred. We need Black leaders, people like Cornel West need to be heard!

Well, that's enough of that...

Blue

There's more here than appears on the surface. Today, the same ways are used against ALL of us -- Majority vs. Minority, Rich vs. Poor, Liberal vs. Conservative, Old vs. Young, Christian vs. Atheist, Us vs. Them. This is mainly reinforced through the media and community "consensus" (con-sense against us). "They always need TWO sides / So they can work THEIR compromise." Now, who are they? They are the kings and queens of this world, and we're all just a bunch of pawns. But there is Hope if u seek Him.

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"Is it so much 2 ask even of U... 2 b the same as the majority? Why is it that I must suffer without even a cause, and no one cares" = Parliament's Oh Lord, Why Lord

This kind of shit is unbelievable.And people wonder why black society has the problems it does.They want us to forget the past...but they don't understand it has been programmed into our future.The division thing is so obvious(we've even had beef in here about it).What kind of human could do this to another man and sleep at night.What kind of mind would want to destroy another man for his own personal gain.No wonder the world is the way it is today.
Thanks for posting this topic but it saddens me beyond imagination There are alot of reasons to come to the org.One of them can be to learn and grow.
[This message was edited Tue Aug 27 22:11:42 PDT 2002 by theC]

theC said:

This is first time your all reading this? The Willie Lynch "Making Of A Slave" speech is widely circulated to this day. Do a wordsearch and you'll get mad links, like this one:

http://thetalkingdrum.com/wil.html

Essence said:

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I knew about the Lynch speech but, it took awhile before I found it on the web. I am suprised that more people have not commented since Prince's comments put people in such a frenzy. However,for those of you that read it and commented please realize that this speech is actually serveral pages long. Look it on the web and read the entire speech.

I also wanted the Prince naysayers to realize that our boy is not as empty headed as the media sometimes makes him out to be.

laurarichardson said:

Some things are too deep for some folks.


I've seen a lot more cyberspace Prince fans make him out to be emptyheaded as compared to the media. Actually...the media seems to be more on the "He's weird" mentality tip than anything else.