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Urban_scribe
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Let’s Dispel a Favorite Urban Myth
by Stanley Crouch
The lies are supposed to be behind the Nation of Islam now. But I am not so sure. Whenever its current leader, Louis Farrakhan, takes to the podium, something like the truth and its cousin, logic, head for the hills.
The "Willie Lynch" story that Farrakhan delivered at the Million Man March became part of the unquestioned "folk wisdom" of the sidewalk, barbershop, beauty parlor and student "understanding" of the black predicament.
The talk was about a supposed speech given in 1712 by William Lynch, a slaveholder who was lecturing his fellow chattel owners in the best ways to keep the slaves divided. It is a perfect example of the "big lie" theory. Tell a big enough lie and it will become its own truth. At the Million Man March, Farrakhan presented a piece of "truth" that had been hidden from black people.
Now it's 10 years later, and after a Millions More Movement, the Lynch lie maintains its position as potted history passed off as fact. It has ingrained itself so much into our culture's consciousness that Prof. William Jelani Cobb of Spelman College had to sweep away this rhetorical piece of dung on his Web site jelanicobb.com. Cobb was disturbed by how deeply this has penetrated the thought of black Americans across classes and professions. A decade later, people repeat it over and over. The rapper Talib Kweli has even cited it in his material. According to Cobb's Web site, it has taken on the life of a factoid, something that seems true but is not.
The only problem is that Farrakhan's talk was no more than a historical bean pie in the sky. A trumped up example of paranoid "insight," it revealed nothing.
The Nation of Islam, when Malcolm X was alive, and when its founder, Elijah Muhammad, called the shots, prided itself on revealing the truth to "so-called Negroes" who were deaf, dumb and blind to their history. The wool had been pulled over their eyes by the white man who was no more than a devil invented 6,000 years ago by Yacub, a mad black scientist.
The white devil was destined to destroy the civilized world created by black men and take reign, but would be pulled down when UFOs, spaceships flown by black men and filled with dynamite, would rain down explosives on America until it was set ablaze. It would burn for 777 years, cool for another 777. Then it would become a paradise and all black people who had been smart enough to emigrate to Africa could come back. (Actually, I assume the descendants of those who left, but you never know.)
Fast forward to 2005. The mad scientist is no more, but the William Lynch lie continues, permeating the fabric of modern-day black society.
Cobb was rattled to the point that he had to take Farrakhan's fairy tale apart, piece by piece, even noting that the language itself was not authentic. It was clearly written far, far later than it was supposed to be.
Unlike the "doctor" whom the Nation of Islam presented at the Million Man March as a man who had found a cure for AIDS, the William Lynch myth remains current snake oil.
If we think the masses are deserving of the truth, then we have to ask why more people are not involved, like Prof. Cobb, in seriously questioning Farrakhan.
We have been waiting a long time for this and will continue to wait as the Farrakhan spin becomes an ever more serious condition of vertigo.
FULL TEXT OF THE ALLEGED WILLIE LYNCH SPEECH, 1712
"Gentlemen, I greet you here on the bank 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 control of 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 woods 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, 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 everyone of you that if installed correctly it will control the slaves for at least 300 hundred years [sic]. 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 throughout the South. 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 slave live in the valley, on hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a 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 us. They must love, respect and trust only us.
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 Willie Lynch Hoax
WHAT SOME HISTORIANS HAVE SAID ABOUT THIS HOAX:
It's really sad that so many African-Americans not only believe this "urban legend" (to put it in decent language), but that so many seem not to care that it is not really true. Anyone who does not care about the truth is in big trouble. For the record, the "Willie Lynch" letter was actually a recent creation, as evidenced by the language used. It was actually created in 1993 as a chain letter which spread like a bad disease throughout Black America. Research indicates that it was "loosely adapted" (to put it nicely) from a section of Anatoli Vinogradov's fictional 1935 novel "The Black Consul" that dealt with Napoleon's supposed plans to divide and conquer the Haitians during the Haitian revolution.
We Black scholars and professional historians should take this as a wake up call to get out of the ivory tower and teach the masses REAL Black history to keep them from being misled by the clever crackpots who collect cash by confusing the credulous. The REAL story of the damage done to Blacks from slavery may be found in actual slave narratives like "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," and detailed studies by legit scholars such as Carter G. Woodson's "Miseducation of the Negro" and Kenneth Stampp's "The Peculiar Institution."
There is a speech attributed to William Lynch which has been circulated on the internet and elsewhere, and which even Louis Farrakhan referred to at the Million Man March of October 16, 1995. By quoting extensively from the "Willie Lynch" speech, Mr. Farrakhan inspired the birth of a new term, Willie Lynch Syndrome, based on Lynch's supposed speech.
This speech is a ridiculous fake, written in the 1990s (there's no record of it being circulated before 1993).
First, the writer of this speech has made hardly any attempt to use the writing/speech style of the early 18th century.
Second, the author was not at all successful at steering clear of very specific anachronisms. We'll name only the most glaring word-choice errors: fool-proof, used in the speech, actually dates from only 1902. The noun program is not used in the sense found in this speech until the 1830s. Self-refuelling is an utter anachronism, as the term refuelling did not arise until the early 20th century. Use of installed when referring to something other than a person did not first occur until the mid-19th century. Moreover, attitude did not refer to anything other than a physical position until the mid-19th century.
Third, a speaker would hardly need to so carefully identify the date and place of his speech, nor would he be likely to refer to King James as "our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish", unless he were a person of the 1990s making a clumsy attempt at writing a fake speech from the early 18th century. We cannot imagine why the writer introduces the theme of "James... our illustrious king" unless it is merely to emphasize that this took place in colonial times. Only someone creating a fake would need to try to establish a date for the speech within the fake itself. And, by the way, James was long-dead by 1712, the monarch of that era being Queen Anne. Finally, there is no evidence that a William Lynch from a "modest plantation" in the West Indies ever existed. There is, however, plenty of evidence for the existence of Captain William Lynch of Pittsylvania, Virginia, whom we have identified as the probable source of the verb lynch, and who was born fifty years after the date given in the speech above.
There are other obvious characteristics of the speech which render it a 20th-century creation. Some of these are discussed at a web site devoted to the subject and created by Anne Taylor, collection development librarian at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. By the way, Ms. Taylor seems to be one of the first to have posted the speech on the internet. She obtained it from the publisher of a free publication in St. Louis, The St. Louis Black Pages, dated 1994 but published in 1993. This is the earliest reference we've been able to find to the Willie Lynch speech in print. We think it's time to send Willie Lynch's speech to the urban legends department.
I suspect that the narrator's name--Mr. Will Lynch--is a humorous put-on. Moreover, when Mr. Lynch thinks about dividing the slaves, he forgets the division that was most obvious to a West-Indian planter: nationality--both African ethnic divisions--Akan, Ibo, Mandingo and American divisions between so-called new Negroes [native Africans] and those born in the New World. His old vs young and dark vs light divisions would be most peculiar among early eighteenth-century African Americans (in both the West Indies and Virginia) who did not have such color gradations as in our own time and who still maintained the near absolute African respect for age.
First, I think it is rather odd for a speaker, even in 1712, to go to such lengths to locate the speech in time and space. The hearers of a speech would have no need for such a preamble: they are there and then, and it is not so clear that this was being spoken for a later printing. It is, however, useful to encourage a later reader to place the speech in a time and place, and the florid style fits a contemporary, though usually false, expectation for florid speech by speakers of the time.
Next, "the bank of the James River," is too generic. If the speaker was making the reference as a matter of courtesy, it is unusual -- indeed it would have been rude -- not to thank the specific hosts: why on the banks of the River, and no reference to a planter at whose landing or house such a speech must have been given? This omission gives rise to another problem: why a speech on such a topic, and given by someone ostensibly imported by ship for the purpose of giving it, would be given to an open riverside assembly, and not in a house or meeting room. It is unlikely that a planter or planters would underwrite the passage of a speaker from the Indies and not have arranged a suitable place for invitees to hear such a speech without fear of being overheard by the lower classes.
Next (and I promise this is my last point about the geography) there is utterly no reason for anyone arriving in Virginia to have thought of a single thing, "As our boat sailed south on the James River". The James River flows north, not south, from Hampton Roads. The only way he would travel south on it is after having given the speech and not before. While such a reference would have been impossible for someone on the banks of the river, it does reinforce, to the modern reader challenged by geography that the speaker is in the South.
As for other reference to time, the speech refers the river as "named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish." While this is a bit afield of my own areas of specialty, I think this is a rather anachronistic manner of referring to the English Bible: such an overt reference to a "version" makes clear that there are other versions, something to me that sounds a tad odd in the mouth of such a declared Anglican. James's 1611 English Bible had pretty so much fully replaced the Geneva Bible as the Bible of the English-speaking world by 1660, that in 1712, this sounds out of place. A reference to James as "patron of our Bible" would have been much more likely.
There are other textual problems that are better left to others (why is the speech so short when the speaker was imported and is speaking in an age of rhetoric as public entertainment? why "West Indies" and not an island name? why "color" and not "colour"? why bank and not "banks"?), but I wonder most about the reference to controlling slaves for 300 years.
Why would a person be invited from the West Indies to Virginia just to deliver an 8-paragraph speech? Back then, such a voyage would have been too strenuous and expensive for this, especially from an unknown person, especially when letter-writing was still the main form of long-distance communication? Of course, Lynch could have been in Virginia on business just before being spontaneously invited to speak. Still, if there had been a William Lynch whose word was so valued that he should deliver such a short speech in person rather than in writing, then certainly his speech would have been reprinted and commented upon in the local newspapers.
Also, he claims to want to give an "outline of action," yet no such plan is clearly given. It seems that a person who travels from the West Indies to Virginia for a speech would have elaborated more.
Thirdly, in paragraph 6, the author writes that "distrust is stronger than trust," yet only 5 sentences later, contradicts himself, saying, "it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us." Such a big contradiction would be expected from someone whose audience is listening intently for detailed information about specific steps in maintaining its livelihood through better control of his property. Why the switch in subjects from 3rd to 2nd person? Why not mention at least 2 or 3 methods of using dark-skinned slaves against light-skinned ones, and vice versa?
Contradiction and lack of detail make me leery of any claims that this "speech" is not a hoax.
Furthermore, the obvious stab at the sore points in African-American psyche, such as gender and facial feature issues, makes me believe it was written for a contemporary audience, since "female vs. ... male and ... male vs. ... female." would not have been so major a societal issue amongst slaves in 1712 in the United States.
Science, is more about the painstaking aggregation of facts that lead researchers to the most likely explanation, but rarely the only one. Slavery was an incredibly complex set of social, economic and legal relations that literally boiled down to black and white. But given the variation in size of farms, number of enslaved workers, region, crops grown, law, gender-ratios, religion and local economy, it is unlikely that a single letter could explain slave policy for at least 151 years of the institution and its ramifications down to the present day.
Considering the limited number of extant sources from 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 its way via internet directly into the canon of American racial conspiratoria.
On a more practical level, the speech is filled with references that are questionable if not completely inaccurate. Lynch makes reference to an invitation reaching him on his "modest plantation in the West Indies." While this is theoretically possible - the plantation system was well-established in the Caribbean by 1712 - most plantation owners were absentees who chose to remain in the colonizing country while the day-to-day affairs of their holdings were run by hired managers and overseers. But assuming that Mr. Lynch was an exception to this practice, much of the text of his "speech" is anachronistic. Lynch makes consistent reference to "slaves" - which again is possible, though it is far more likely people during this era would refer to persons in bondage simply as "Negroes."
In the first paragraph, he promises that "Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented," but the word "program" did not enter the English language with this connotation until 1837 - at the time of this speech it was used to reference a written notice for theater events.
Two paragraphs later he says that he will "give an outline of action," for slave-holders; the word "out-line" had appeared only 50 years earlier and was an artistic term meaning a sketch - it didn't convey it's present meaning until 1759. Even more damning is his use of the terms "indoctrination" and "self-refueling" in the next sentence. The first word didn't carry it current connotation until 1832; the second didn't even enter the language until 1811 -- a century after the purported date of Lynch's speech. More obviously, Lynch uses the word "Black," with an upper-case "B" to describe African Americans more than two centuries before the word came to be applied as a common ethnic identifier.
In popular citations, Lynch has also been - inexplicably - credited with the term "lynching" which would be odd since the speech promises to provide slave-holders with non-violent techniques that will save them the expense of killing valuable, if unruly, property. This inaccuracy points to a more basic problem in understanding American history.
The violence directed at black people in America was exceptional in the regard that it was racialized and used to reinforce political and social subordination, but it was not unique. Early America was incredibly violent in general - stemming in part from the endemic violence in British society and partly from the violence that tends to be associated with frontier societies. For most of its history, lynching was a non-racial phenomenon- actually it was racial in that it most often directed at white people. "Lynch law" was derived from the mob violence directed at Tories, or British loyalists, just after the American Revolution. While there is disagreement about the precise origins of the term - some associate it with Charles Lynch, a Revolution-era Justice-of-the-Peace who imprisoned Tories, others see it as the legacy of an armed militia founded near the Lynche River or the militia captain named Lynch who created judicial tribunals in Virginia in 1776 - there is no reference to the term earlier than 1768, more than half a century after the date given for the speech.
Given the sparse judicial resources (judges were forced to travel from town-to-town hearing cases, which is where we get the term "judicial circuit") and the frequency of property crimes in the early republic, lynching was often seen as a form of community justice. Not until the 1880s, after the end of Reconstruction, did "lynching" become associated with African Americans; gradually the number of blacks lynched each year surpassed the number of whites until it became almost exclusively directed at black people late in the century.
On another level, the Willie Lynch speech would seem to give a quick-and-easy explanation of the roots of our much-lamented "black disunity." You could make similar arguments about the lingering effects of a real historical document like the 1845 tract "Religious Instruction of Negroes" - written by a proslavery Presbyterian minister -- or the British practice of mixing different African ethnicities on slave ships in order to make communication - and therefore rebellion - more difficult. But this too is questionable - it presumes that whites, or any other diverse group, do not face divisive gender issues, generation gaps and class distinctions. Willie Lynch offers no explanation for the white pro-lifer who guns down a white abortion-provider or white-on-white domestic violence. He does not explain political conflicts among different Latino groups or crime in Asian communities. Unity is not the same as unanimity and in the end, black people are no more disunited than any other group of people - and a lot more united than we give ourselves credit for.
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Kola_boof
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, August 04, 2006 - 11:46 pm: |
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Sorry to disappoint you, "Miss Sesame Cracker"----but we already posted this article and WENT OVER IT ad infinitum.
We also did the "Alex Haley ROOTS Hoax".
Sorry, Cracker CREE-HOLE...to get your EARS all red.
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Mzuri
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You can post whatever you want to US. If it hasn't been posted recently, it can be discussed again. I don't understand why Kola thinks that you should be familiar with every single topic (amongst thousands) that have been discussed here for the past four years.
Kola, do you have a beef with EVERY ONE!!! DAMN! |
Kola_boof
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You know, Urban Scribe, I really don't mind you being a Bucket-rainbow trying to pass for black.
There are less noble things.
But do you really have to bore the fuck out of us in the process???
I mean---did you also post this on your NON-Black FORUM? The one that you...moderate?
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Schakspir
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Kola_boof
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Great picture of your FATHER, Schakspir.
Keeping with tradition...
You even named yourself after a WHITE MAN.
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Schakspir
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Actually, it's more like yours.
Kola looks so cute as a young baby....the true bloodberry, what. |
Kola_boof
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 05, 2006 - 12:48 am: |
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That IS....a gorgeous baby!
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Mzuri
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 05, 2006 - 12:48 am: |
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LOLOLOL!!! You go Schakspir.
Kola - ONE MORE TIME! Repeat after me:
DON'T START NO SHIT
AND IT WON'T BE NO SHIT!
Knuckleheaded Fucktard! |
Abm
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Maybe the Willie Lynch letter is indeed a hoax. But it sure as hell SEEMS like some kinda Master Plan of this sort was perpetrated.
I think you could argue it's as TRUE a hoax that has ever existed. |
Abm
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Kola,
It is interesting how Shakspir attempted to use that "Pickininny" picture to insult you. Though "Pickininny" is a most insulting term, it does include a rather striking drawing of a Black baby.
What Shakspir does here typifies the very coloristic bias you most eloquently cite.
Yes. Many foks who refer to themselves as Black would rather NOT be PHYSICALLY such. |
Urban_scribe
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Apparently, Ms. Boof, there are still Blacks en masse who believe in the Willie Lynch Hoax. Therefore, it needs to be reinterated again and again and again until Blacks realize how this hoax has destroyed and continues to destroy the Black community with colorist bullshit.
Thusly, I will post this and any other article ad infinitum which I feel is beneficial to the Black community until something "clicks" in the minds of Blacks causing them to realize that they are going down a path of destruction. It is up to Blacks to reverse their paths, take an alternate route, and rebuild the community. Rather than worrying about who's light who's dark and how the White man has and continues to oppress Blacks. That is a counterproductive, time-consuming futile effort--which by the way plays right into the White man's hands. While niggers sit around complaining about "whitey this and whitey that," "Whitey" is building his fortune off their Black asses.
Blacks need to wake the fuck up and "flip the script."
I actually care about my people. I do not waste their time promoting myself. I do not tell them that I am better than they are. I do not insinuate that they must follow me due to the location of my birth. I do not deceive them that my hair is "the proof" of my "authenticity" while wearing a weave. Shall I go on?
Ms. Boof, you and I know that your argument with me is NOT because I'm lightskinned. Your argument with me is that I SEE THROUGH YOU for the unscrupulous, selfish CON ARTIST and FRAUD you really are.
You can call me all the names you like. Your antics neither offend nor surprise me. I'd expect nothing less from a mental patient.
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Fortified
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I personally think more people in general need to see this article. |
Chrishayden
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If the letter itself is a hoax what it says is true.
That crap mouth Crouch sees fit to stir it up is all I need to keep supporting it. |
Schakspir
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Urban_scribe, the medical definitions of Kola Boof's condition are known as DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR--commonly known to paranoid schizoprenics. |
Schakspir
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However, I do admit I made a grevious error in judgement in posting such a cute little baby in representing the young Kola. Nothing could be further from the truth. Upon further consideration, I think that the following picture is a lot more appropriate:
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Ntfs_encryption
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Thanks for the post Urban_scribe. Believe it or not, there are many people who still believe this sophomoric drivel. When I first read it I knew it was scripted fake document. But I was surprised to see so many people fall prey to this third rate written trash that was written to inflame. In saying so, I’m not denying that racism exists. That would be a foolish position taken up by a Republican or someone who is divorced from reality.
In fact, I got into a heated argument with a good friend of mine two weeks ago about this very subject. She is white and asked me had I heard of the Willie Lynch doctrine. I said yes I had. She went on to tell me how horrible she thought it was and was shocked to learn that such a racist doctrine had been historically implemented. She said she was aware of racism but she did not know this particular doctrine was used as blue print to disenfranchise and oppress black people. She told me her African boy friend had told her about it. She said the guy was politically astute and fanatical about his beliefs. When I told her the Willie Lynch story was a myth, she became very skeptical and questioning about my dismissal of this contrived fabrication. She asked me for references to support what I said. Naturally I became incensed because I was surprised that she would believe it after I throughly deconstructed it. Nevertheless, I complied and forwarded her documentation that disproved it as a silly myth. She then confronted her African boy friend who just grinned and mumbled that he knew the Willie Lynch story was a lie. She asked him if he knew it was a bogus story, why did he passionately rail away and regurgitate the story as if it were true. She was met with silence. He changed the subject.
So yes, exposing of this myth can never be excessive. People need to know the difference between fact and fiction.
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Chrishayden
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Like much fiction the Willie Lynch letter IS true. |
Kola_boof
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, August 05, 2006 - 09:38 pm: |
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That's DEEP, Chris.
And I agree.
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Kola_boof
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And what is this Urban_Scribe bitch talking about??
It's been YEARS since I had a hair weave, but just so you EDUCATE yourself....
African people have been wearing hair weaves and wigs for 25,000 years.
The Egyptians created braid WIGS and kept their heads shaven to protect them from sand mites.
There is NOWHERE that I have said that Black women can't wear false hair....what I have said is that we should LOOK LIKE OUR OWN SELVES (meaning like BLACK women)...meaning that Afro wigs, braids and traditional WEAVED African hair colors and styles should be worn...instead of the Blond hair of the European.
The "PROOF" is an African term that has to do with "African hair texture"-----do you understand what TEXTURE means and is???
That means that if your natural hair isn't NAPPY---you do not possess the "PROOF".
It's YOU multi-racial bitch who's a fucking CON ARTIST and FRAUD, and whether you like it or not MONGO-bitch, my LIFE'S WORK and my children...are going to destroy and kill you.
That's what I came here for.
Now fuck with KOLA BOOF America!!!
You haven't got enough ass to get on stage with Mama---and time will unravel you.
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Urban_scribe
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Username: Urban_scribe
Post Number: 58
Registered: 05-2006
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1208
Registered: 01-2006
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Prettybabygirl
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Username: Prettybabygirl
Post Number: 437
Registered: 04-2005
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Go Kola!
I'd rather stand with you than with people who think these racist pictures by Shakspir are "funny".
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