The Willie Lynch Letter Hoax

Michelle Malkin gets some hate mail from a Dominique Gabel of the NJ Law Journal with a link to the "Willie Lynch" letter.

Your self-hate stems from hundreds of years of enslavement that your people suffered. Though it is too late for you to find happiness in self love, maybe you will at least see yourself and what you are for the white man in this document on how to make a slave.

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Dominique Gabel

The letter was alleged to have been written in 1712, resulting in the use of the word "lynched," which didn't actually come into usage until 1836.

And if you read much of the "Willie Lynch Hoax," you'll likely conclude it was written in St Louis circa 1993 or so and brought to popular attention by the Million Man March.

Personally, I might actually prefer being a slave to someone, as opposed to the slave to ignorance Ms. Gabel appears to be.

Comments

[Lala]

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[Lala]

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[chris]

Origin of "lynch." While I am no expert, I am reading a biography on Jefferson by Merril Peterson many consider it one of the most comprehensive works on Jefferson albeit by an author who could find little wrong with anything he did.

According to that biography, the term lynch came into being during the revolutionary war when British sympathizers attempted to steal armaments from the Americans (I believe in western Virginia but could have been further south) and they were caught and hanged. The head of the American party was named Lynch.

[AJ Lynch]

I was always heard the term came from Ireland when a father hung his own son after the son committed a crime. Apparently, the father was named Lynch and was very well respected in his town so no one else would hang the son even though he was guilty of the egregious crime.

[Ronsonic]

Years ago I read a number of Nation of Islam books. Yes, I will read almost anything to satisfy curiosity. The wording and themes of the Lynch speech sound very much like second or third generation stuff from the 1970s or 80s. The earliest Elijah Muhammad blather about the creation of slaves was unsophisticated and just plain weird, "tricknology" and pig fat rubbed on the head of infants to prevent the bones from knitting properly and causing feeble-mindedness. Later writers would just grind whatever axe they had against the story they were telling to create a just-so fable of how their own particular grievance had its origin in the schemes of the slave owners.

Like reading Freud, this anonymous author tells us more about his own insecurities and disgruntlement than anything about slavery. The greater success of black women in educational accomplishment and professional employment relative to black men was a source of resentment and distrust. Apparently this author was feeling it pretty bad. Anyway, all the cultural trends and writing here looks like the writings that were going around NOI circles in the 1980s. The faux erudition in the explanations of spheres and orbits and phenomenon and the like is pure NOI from the Seventies, very like Farrakhan's work. The fairly odd discussions of breeding reflect old Elijah Muhammad himself - he wrote like that.

The pretense that this is written in the voice of an 18th Century white man is almost laughable. NOI recruits tend to be a little tone deaf to the voices of society around them and not very well read in any case.

We might've hoped that things like this would've been outgrown some time ago. As the smart guy said, what you don't know isn't nearly as dangerous as what you think you know that ain't so. And dishonesty like this can keep people down for decades.