The Willie Lynch Prophecy

By Henry Robert Burke

November 7, 2008

This is a critique on a policy to “Divide and Control”, instituted during the English Colonial Period in North America to influence the behavior of enslaved Africans. It is easy to see that this strategy was expanded for political control of the masses in the United States. William Lynch gave the rules for his strategy in a speech delivered on the banks of the James River in Virginia in 1712. William Lynch guaranteed the affects would last for 300 years. The good news is that nearly 300 years have passed!

Thanks to a coalition of sane African Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Hispanics Americans, Latino Americans, Native Americans,  and sane Americans of every other stripe; on November 4, 2008 Barack Obama, an African American, was elected to serve as President of the United States of American. As prophesized by William Lynch, the era of slavery and its affects will end by 2012!

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The term "lynching" is said to have derived from Charles Lynch, a slave owner at Lynchburg, Virginia Colony during the latter part of the 1600s and early part of the 1700s. It is reported that during that period of English Colonial history, Charles Lynch and other Virginia planters were driving themselves into bankruptcy by torturing and killing enslaved Africans in an attempt to make them work.

At the same time William Lynch, a brother of Charles Lynch who owned a plantation on the Island of Barbados, West Indies, had devised a scheme to control the behavior of his slaves. In 1712 Charles Lynch invited his brother William Lynch to Jamestown, Virginia to advise slave owners there about his methods of control.

Following is the speech, called “Advice from Willie”, given by William Lynch on the banks of the James River in 1712:

 “Gentlemen, I greet you here on the banks 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 of controlling slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program were 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 occasion.

I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are not only losing a 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, and 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 fool 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 hundred 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 for you. Take this simple little list of differences, and think about them.

On top of my list is "Age", but it is there only because it starts with an "A": the second is "Color" or shade, there is intelligence, size, sex, size of plantations, status on plantation, attitude of owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have the list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action; but before that I shall assure you that distrust is stronger than trust and envy is stronger than adulation, respect, or admiration.

The Black slave after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self re-fueling 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 your white servants and overseers distrust all Blacks, but it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on you, their owner. They must love, respect and trust only their master. 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.”     

The source for “Advice from Willie Lynch”: The AFRO-American Newspaper