In A.D. 1712, a West Indies slave owner named Willie Lynch allegedly came to Virginia to explain a new theory about how to control slaves. In a letter, Mr. Lynch claimed that once his theory was implemented, the slaves themselves would provide the energy to keep it working. More, once initiated, his technology would be “self-perpetuating” for “at least 300 years . . . maybe thousands”.
When I first saw Lynch’s claims of “300 years” and “self-perpetuating,” I almost stopped reading. The idea was laughable, absurd . . . impossible. Nobody can set up a system of slavery that would be self-perpetuating for 300 years.
About two-thirds through the Lynch letter, I couldn’t believe the letter was real. Lynch used levels of psychological insight that I couldn’t imagine had been available 300 years ago. So I Googled the Lynch letter and found 64,000 hits. I skimmed a series of websites run by African-Americans and they all seemed to think the Lynch letter was legitimate, so I accepted it as fantastic, but real.
As a result, by the time I’d finished reading Lynch’s letter, I was convinced that I’d just read one of the most insightful, astonishing and frightening letters I’ve ever seen. The damn thing was spooky to the point of being supernatural.
Lynch’s theory not only seemed right, his 300 year prediction was accurate. American Negroes (and now Whites) are pretty much conditioning themselves to be slaves.
You can download a pristine copy of Willie Lynch’s 4-page letter at:
http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/BPP_Books/pdf/The_Willie_Lynch_Letter_The_Making_Of_A_Slave!.pdf
And you can download a copy of Lynch’s letter with another 20+ pages of my own comments at: 091108 How to Make a Nigger Slave.
But, a couple days after I first published this letter on this blog, I also received an email containing the following link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lynch_speech which alleges that the Lynch letter is a HOAX. And then I received another email pointing to http://www.manuampim.com/lynch_hoax1.html which also alleges that the Lynch letter is a hoax.
I suspect that the allegations of “hoax” are probably correct and that I mistakenly accepted the Lynch letter as legitimate. But I also suspect that, hoax or not, the Lynch letter expresses fundamental psychological principles on how to permanently oppress a people that are profound and true. It may be that “Willie Lynch” never existed. It may be that the Lynch letter was written in the 1900’s rather than the 1700’s. Nevertheless, the principles advanced in the letter may still be true.
Consider the letter and my commentary, and then you decide.
3 Comments
November 10, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Mr. Adask,
You indicated that you used google to search the term “multiplicity of phenomena of illusions” and nothing implied a fraud.
Did you happen to run across this site:
http://www.manuampim.com/lynch_hoax1.html
There are some very good arguments why this could be a hoax.
With Gratitude
Bob
November 10, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Hi Bob,
You’re the second person to bring the evidence of “hoax” to my attention. Thank you.
As I wrote in my commentary, there were elements of the letter that indicated levels of insight that I could not associate with the culture of 300 years ago. So I did Googled the Lynch letter, found 64,000 hits, and skimmed the first 2 dozen–which were on websites run by African-Americans. I presumed that if the letter was a hoax, the Blacks would know about it because that letter seems to condemn the Black’s current cultural tendency to matriarchy. The websites I skimmed gave no indication the Lynch letter was fraudulent so I accepted it as fantastic but legitimate and wrote my commentary
Now, it appears that the Lynch letter was a hoax. My initial suspicions were confirmed–nobody had such psychological insight in A.D. 1713. Nevertheless, I was still fooled. The problem I have is that while the Lynch letter may have been a hoax, the psychological principles expressed in that letter strike me as so profound and insightful that the document has value no matter when it was written.
I’m in the process of adjusting the text on my blog to introduce evidence that the Lynch letter is a hoax.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for your correction.
Al
November 11, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Al, reguardless of the hoax debate. This letter and your commentary are spot on! It sounds alot like late 19th, early 20th century type material. This quote makes me suspicious of its AD1700 vintage.
“and they advised us that the best way to deal with the
phenomenon is to shave off the brute’s mental history and create a multiplicity of
phenomena of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit, something
similar to floating balls in a vacuum.”
Did the good folks of the early 1700’s even widely know what vacuum was? Let alone the relation of a vacuum and balls floating in one?
Reguardless…the picture it paints is shockingly similar to todays reality. I think your solution #2 is fast approaching and the fallout will make for very interesting times. As you always end your writings…”buckle up”