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 )

Book Review: The Queen's Slave Trader: John Hawkyns, Elizabeth 1, and the Trafficking in Human Souls by Nick Hazlewood (NY 2004)

The history of John Hawkins has undergone what I call the "mystification process." For whatever reasons, ---ignorance, incompetence, or just the plain intent to "teach the poor lies," ---individuals (10%) have misled the masses (85%) under their control with false information, and the easily led just ran with it. It has always been the duty of the true 5% to teach right and exact. John Hawkyns was born in Plymouth, England in 1532. There is no "Hardy" in his name, and no validity in its addition to his name. The best explanation for its inclusion in his name is that some idiot put it in a Plus Degree and the 85% ran with it. The ridiculous excuses made for its inclusion are beyond the realm of intelligence. Hawkyns' (the actual spelling) history is well-documented in English and Spanish archives for anyone interested in research. Hawkyns' history can be found in any library's reference section, or encyclopedia. There's no mystery about him; there's always some book currently in print about him. John Hawkyns was one of Queen Elizabeth's "sea dogs," as was his cousin, Francis Drake. Queen Elizabeth 1, of England, actually bankrolled, and provided Hawkyns with the ship, the "Jesus of Lubeck" for his slave-catching expeditions which were very profitable. Hawkyns' diaries are still available for a blow-by-blow account of his exploits in his own words. There is another glitch in the mystification process: the dates of Hawkyns' voyages. Note; that in historical research, two elements are integral\ to research: chronology and geography. Queen Elizabeth did not ascend the throne until 1558. John Hawkyns, born in 1532, was only 23 years old in 1555. His first slave-taking voyage took place in October 1562, and between then and 1568, he kidnapped approximately 1,500 to 2,000 Africans from the coast of West Africa. So, the chronology placing his major voyage in 1555 simply does not compute. Elizabeth 1 was in no position to aid him in 1555, and that date (1555) originates in the tradition of the Nation of Islam as promulgated by Elijah Muhammad. Hawkyns is a person of historical note on the world stage, and figures prominently in the traditions of both the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarians. The Rastafarians, while cognizant of Hawkyns' impact on British colonial and African history, do not assign a 1555 date for his voyage. The chronology of the N.O.I. however, relying on the assorted biblical prophecies, among them the 400 year period in which the descendants of Abraham were "strangers in a strange land." (How the progeny of a sub-Saharan people who genetically predate the mythical Abraham is possible, is another matter). The 1555 date was allocated to fit (in 1934) the 400 year period, due in 1955. That date, as many others (1914, 1984), came and went, as most prophecies come and go. John Hawkyns, knighted by Elizabeth had an interesting history beyond his slave-taking exploits. He was involved in the Ridolfi Plot of 1571. Roberto Ridolfi, an Italian banker and papal spy was involved in the Spanish conspiracy to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and place Mary, Queen of Scots on the English throne. Elizabeth, a Protestant, and Mary, a Catholic. Of course the Spanish were neck-deep in the plot, and Hawkyns was in communication with the Spanish ambassador to the English court. His communications are still archived in Spain and present evidence that Hawkyns was instrumental in the conspiracy. Spain had promised him nobility and other things. Hawkyns was determined to be a willing participant by the Spanish even after the plot was discovered, and arrests, torture, and death were meted out to participants. Hawkyns was not arrested. It was claimed that he was either an undercover intelligence agent for England, or, a double agent playing both ends against the middle. The Spanish, even after all was done, perceived him as their man in London. Not mentioned in most histories of the Ridolfi Plot, is that Hawkyns' son had been captured by the Spanish and released subject to Hawkyns' agreement of work with them. Was Hawkyns a traitor to England? Hawkyns' first historical record after birth was his killing of John Whyte in 1552 when he was 20 years old. He was pardoned; his father was the Mayor of Plymouth. Hawkyns' history, viewed cumulatively, does not place him in a high moral position. The Hawkyns' family coat of arms shows a "bound Moor."