BY: Vincent L. Hall
“Take the meanest, most restless nigger. Strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, female niggers and nigger infants. Tar and feather him. Tie each leg to a horse facing in opposite directions, set him on fire and beat both horses until they tear him apart; in front of the male, female and nigger infants. Bullwhip, and beat, the remaining nigger males within an inch of their life… DO NOT kill them; but put the fear of God in them for they can be useful for future breeding”. – Attributed to Willie Lynch, famed “Slave Strategist.
For the record, this is the same Willie Lynch for whom the term “lynching” was coined. Lynch and the “letter” that made him famous, especially in the circles of Black history “Intelligencia” are horrific, but no less sinister than the 242-year history of the slave trading franchise in the United States. Lynch, like Trump, didn’t invent inhumanity; both just serve as poster children for their respective racist and inhumane movements.
Bootstrapped Black radicals know this passage of Willie Lynch because it appears in the first chapter of their book, “Why I hate White folks and anybody who supports oppression.” Now let me rush to admit that there is no such title to be found in the Library of Congress, but the loose-leaf version circulates amongst hard core Black rebels. Trust me!
I’m talking about those brothers who don’t shy away from the late Elijah Muhammad’s most prominent proclamation; “The White man is the devil.” Muhammad Ali, once a part of the Nation of Islam, shocked reporters. In an interview session conducted for television in England, Ali made no detours from the Prophet’s assertion.
In an article published in the July 2016 iteration of The Independent, Ali was forceful in beating back any and all attackers. “Elijah Muhammad,” he told the TV viewers of 1970s Middle England, “Is the one who preached that the white man of America, number one, is the Devil!”
The whites of America, said Ali, had “lynched us, raped us, castrated us, tarred and feathered us … Elijah Muhammad has been preaching that the white man of America – God taught him – is the blue-eyed, blond-headed Devil! No good in him, no justice, he’s gonna be destroyed!
“The white man is the Devil. We do believe that. We know it!”
If you didn’t come to know Willie Lynch on the “NegroNet,” maybe you met him on the big screen. The “Great Debaters,” a film about African American college debate champions in the piney woods East Texas town of Marshall, also used the Lynch letter.
Professor Melvin Tolson asked a few of the students to give a brief on who their fathers were. One of them, “Mr. Lowe,” in a very defiant and disrespectful tone, turned the question in on his proctor. The ever-adept Tolson used the words of Willie Lynch to take what debaters call the “affirmative” and teach the young upstart a lesson
“His methods were very simple, but they were diabolical. Keep the slave physically strong but psychologically weak and dependent on the slave master. Keep the body, take the mind.
I…and every other professor on this campus are here to help you…to find, take back, and keep your righteous mind…because obviously you have lost it. That’s all you need to know about me, Mr. Lowe.”
There are some looming questions among historians as to whether Willie Lynch’s letter was a hoax. However, what cannot be questioned is that the methods he described were used and useful in assembling and operating the world’s worst chattel slave system; ever!!!
History also suggests that the “meanest and most restless niggers” like, Marcus, Malcolm, Medgar and Martin who paid the price openly defied Willie Lynch. I don’t know where Willie Lynch is said to be buried, but I know that his spirit lives on in Donald Trump, MAGA and Project 2026!
|A long-time Texas Metro News columnist, Dallas native Vincent L. Hall is an author, writer, award-winning writer, and a lifelong Drapetomaniac.
