The Willie Lynch Fraud by Prince A.Cuba

I was reading a book, Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder: Definition, Diagnosis and Treatment (Charlotte, N.C. 2005) by Omar G. Reid, Sekou Mims, and Larry Higginbottom. The thesis of the book was that people of African descent, particularly in the U.S., are still suffering the after-effects of the prior slavery era. That thesis is undoubtedly correct, and it manifests itself in remarkable and apparent ways to the scientific observer. The authors’ psychological assessments are correct as is the methodology based upon psychological technique; but the weakness of the work is it’s reliance on a recent fabrication as an historical source. I am referring to the so-called “Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave” (Lushena Books, 1999). “The Willie Lynch Letter” is a third-rate fraud. That was evident to me at first examination, and I’m a trained historian; but I expect better from the three authors with their college degrees (none in history, to be sure). As in the “Farad-Einstein Debate” fraud (The Universal Truth, Vol. 2, No. 6, pps. 12-17), I found, as usual, that the majority take these things on face value alone. I, like many others, first heard of the “Willie Lynch Letter” at the Million Man March (October 1995). The substance of the text at first glance was hardly shocking. After all, I had read Lerone Bennett’s Before the Mayflower (Chicago 1962) when I was a teenager, Ralph Ginsburg’s 100 Years of Lynching (NY 1962, 1988) and a host of histories detailing the horrors of slavery; but my education in the N.O.I. was only the frosting on the cake. From my father and my earliest experiences, I knew Europeans were devils. I didn’t need to read anything to know that. (Of course there’s people whose family were lynched, burned, and sexually mutilated that don’t think the perpetrators were devils; different standards of proof, I guess.) Eventually I got around to reading “Willie Lynch”that’s my businessbooks, and history, my specialty. The version I read, and there are several versions available, was routine. My basic analysis, “this document is a good presentation of white supremacy.” That is to say, white people, personalized as Willie Lynch, are fiendishly clever; so intelligent, so diabolical, so ingenious! How could we ever hope to outsmart these superior and well-planned people? This is the subliminal message received by the mentally asleep of whom the majority of the human family are. (Suggestion made on the unconscious mind is the most effective means of influence because the unconscious mind lacks a critical faculty to reject negative message input.) Think of what that means in actual reality. Actually, Willie Lynch, if he had existed, would have been a poor choice as an advisor on the control of African slaves; the West Indies had a worst track record than their North American slave master cousins. In Jamaica, alone, there were major slave rebellions in 1673, 1690, followed by Tacky’s Rebellion of 1760; and that’s not even mentioning the successful Maroon War (1655-1738). The text itself is full of psychological terms (argot) not available in 1712 or processes recognized until the era of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). There is a science known as textual criticism (analysis) I mention in Before Adam: The Original Man (1992) and Musa and the All-Seeing Eye: A History of Moses (1991). While in Atlanta, I researched the Genealogical Section’s microfilm sources for the West Indies which go as far back as the 1500s for English settlers; negative on William Lynch. I went to the banks of the St. James River and Lynchburg, Va., named for Charles Lynch, well-known as the original Judge Lynch from whom the term “Lynch law” is derived. (It originally did not mean hanging, but arbitrary and immediate punishment, and involved the “tar and feathering” or whipping of Tories (British Loyalists) during the late 1770s and the War for Independence.) I went to the various slang dictionaries and looked up words. “Ass-backwards” was one word I recall. It’s first recorded usage was 1887, and the source was cited. (Of course, all my written paperwork was confiscated by the government, but my memory is accurate and easily verified at any library. Charles Lynch is in the Encyclopedia Americana or any reference work on the North American Revolutionary War (for independence from Britain). Well, I was mildly surprised that the jailhouse intellectuals argued for the authenticity of the Willie Lynch document. What could I tell them? After all, I’m just a prisoner like them; a doctorate in history doesn’t mean anything here. So I asked the brother Islord Shabazz (7) to pull something off the web because I knew there was something there. (You can’t tell these jailhouse intellectuals anything because they’ve read a bunch of books like The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams (1971, 1992 rev. ed.) or The Judas Factor by Karl Evanzz (NY 1992), neither of which is taken seriously by real scholars; those books are popular with the masses (85%). Destruction has no references to any sources at all, and Judas Factor, takes the FBI’s original misinformation and repeats it without critically examining it, and worse, misrepresenting facts and sources. (see: The Universal Truth, Vol. 2, No. 3, “Book List Reviews,” pps. 26-30, at 27). These are mass-market popular history books that sell well and makes people feel good about themselves; they are not published by a university press and yes, there are Black university presses and peer review journals. I received two pieces: Jelani Cobb, “Willie Lynch is Dead (1712-2003).” and Prof. Manu Ampim’s “Death of the Willie Lynch Speech.” Both historians employ what is known in the discipline as “critical textual analysis” and demonstrate the use of literary anachronisms (words out of their proper time, like Moses with a wristwatch or Farad in 1934 with a ballpoint ink pen); but the two, independent of each other, made contributions to the subject worth quoting. Jelani Cobb: “Considering the limited number of extant sources from the 18th century, if this speech had been “discovered” it would’ve been the subject of incessant historical panels, scholarly articles and debates. It would literally be a career-making find. But the letter was never “discovered,” but rather it “appeared” bypassing the official historical circuits and making it’s way via the internet directly into the canon of American racial conspiratoria.” Prof. Ampim mentions that there is no reference made to the Willie Lynch Speech by any pro- or anti- slavery advocates; it’s existence is totally unknown to people who wrote about slavery extensively, like Frederick Douglass, David Walker, Martin Delaney, Benjamin Quarles, John Hope Franklin, John Henrik Clarke, W.E.B. Du Bois, Herbert Aptheker, and many more. Says Prof. Ampim: “It is ludicrous to give god-like powers to one white man who allegedly gave a speech almost 300 years ago, and claim that this is the main reason why Black people have problems among ourselves today! Unfortunately, too often Black people would rather believe a simple and convenient myth, rather than spend the time studying and understanding a situation. Too many of our people want a one-page, simplified Ripley’s Believe it or Not explanation of “What Happened.” ” (See: www.manuampim.com and www.jelanicobb.com )