This is something that we all can learn from.

I'm sure some of you guys have heard of Willie Lynch and his infamous letter, well this is a sort of revised version of it, that applies to us as a people now. Some have said that this was written by Willie Lynch's son however I have found no proof to corroborate that statement. In any case, I don't really care who wrote it because it speaks truths of the situations that many black people are living today. It gives me pause by showing how a well executed plan from over 300 years ago how been able to continually keep us divided as a people.

Lynch was a British Slave Owner in the West Indies.He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. The term "lynching" is derived from his last name and after reading this you will see that remnants of Willie's methods are still in use today.


How to Make an Economic or Ghetto Slave: A Lesson for the New Millennium

Building on my great-grandfather's work, we can see how we can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of
physical slavery. We will focus on the current methods of containment that they use on themselves:
1. Ignorance
2. Greed
3. Selfishness
The ignorance of blacks is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, "the best way to hide something from a black is toputit in a book". This statement is so true. We currently live in an information age. Blacks have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their right for freedom and integration yet; they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com that would help them reach economic equality (what should have been their fight all along), however, very few of them read consistently if at all. As long as we continue to publish books for our benefit and keep books,
computers and the Internet out their hands we will never see the masses of them rise above the slums and projects. My great-great-grandfather said, "For example, you take the slave, if you
teach him all about your language, he will know all your secrets, and he is then no more a slave, for you can't fool him any longer and having a fool is one of the basic ingredients of and incidents to the making of the slavery system. "The masses of them are fools because they don't read. They will never figure out that we have all the information a person needs to succeed in America in the books, magazines and newspapers we read
all the time.

Greed is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks
since the abolishment of slavery have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 9 billion dollars during Christmas and represent about 450 billion dollars in purchasing power. That will easily allow any of us to use them as our target market for any business venture. Being a primarily consumer peoplethey function totally by greed. They continually want more without any regard for saving or investing. They would rather buy some new sneaker than invest in starting a business
or community development organization. Some will even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU. They still think that having a Mercedes and big house in the middle of the ghetto gives them "status" or that they have achieved the American dream. They are fools. The vast majority of their people are still in poverty. Living in slums,projects and run-down homes. What have they achieved? Their greed holds them back from making better communities for themselves. With the help of B.E.T. and the rest of their blackmedia,we will continue to see
huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. They will continue to congregate in their "buppie" communities and slums trying to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the
profits from our businesses.

Some would argue that this last method is the most powerful one of the three. Selfishness, ingrained in their minds through
slavery,is one of the major ways we can contain them in a slave status. We all know that any group united under one vision can accomplish anything. The Bible shows that even God acknowledged in the Tower of Babel story that apeople united can accomplish anything. With this said, we understand that the most effective way to keep them contained is to create divisions among blacks as a people. One of their own, Dubois said that there was aninnate division in their culture. A "Talented Tenth" he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some "form' of success, however, that segment missed the fullness of his work, (they don't
read) that "Talented Tenth was then responsible to aid the Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life. Instead, that segment has created another class, a buppie class that looks
down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner through various community and fraternal organizations.The selfishness of the buppie class and the "it's all about me" attitude that is prevalent throughout their people has caused them to isolate both classes and caused them as a whole to achieve nothing great for themselves in the form of solid communities, business or economic empowerment. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow
them to be able work together on any project or endeavor of substance or when they do get together their selfishness
and egos get in the way of the goal. Their so-called help organizations, with large budgets and some existing for almost a hundred or more years, seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change to the communities in which they live. They are content to sit in conferences and conventions and talk about what
they will do and award the best speakers a plaque. Is there no end to their selfishness? I doubt it. They lack essential information for combating selfishness and that is that Together Each Achieves More (TEAM). They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own. Most of those buppies are one or two paychecks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pensin our offices and
boardrooms. Yes, we will continue to contain them aslong as we keep them from reading, let them buy anything they want and keep them thinking that they are really "helping" their communities by paying dues to some organization. By the way, don't worry about any of them reading this letter, remember,
they don't read.

If you want to read Willie Lynch original letter along with some of his writings from "Let's Make A Slave" follow this link: http://www.blackmind.com/MVSG/willie.htm

-"is a nigga your complexion or is all in your mind..." Common

~Royalty