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Available
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Publication
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2014), 38 pages
Description
The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave is a study of slave making. It describes the rationale and the results of Anglo Saxon's ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. The infamous Willie Lynch letter gives both African and Caucasian students and teachers some insight, concerning the brutal and inhumane psychology behind the African slave trade. The materialistic viewpoint of Southern plantation owners that slavery was a business and the victims of chattel slavery were merely pawns in an economic game of debauchery, crossbreeding, interracial rape and mental conditioning of a negroid race, they considered subhuman. Equally important is the international nature of the European economic, political and cultural climate that influenced the slave trade. Within the time scale of African History, it was a relatively short period, a mere one and a half centuries from the most intensive phase of the Atlantic slave trade to the advent of European administration and dominance. Long before that the Slave Coast had been chartered by the Portuguese and the people off the area west of Benin, between the Volta River and Lagos, European traders traced a cultural history which linked them with the earliest Yoruba settlements to the north and eastern borders of Africa.… (more)
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LibraryThing member BridgetsBookNook
What I'm about to say may tick a lot of people off but if you haven't read the book, never lived this, or you have and/or its you...it may (or may not) touch a nerve...and do not come onto my personal review with negativity and ignorance...I am a people watcher and I grew up watching roles like
Let me start off by saying, I have read the rumors of who supposedly wrote this book...But even if it were written within the last 20 years or so, going by history and the reading I have done, it is still pretty accurate about how slaves were treated and how things were done.
Now, on to what I was wanting to say.
A lot of what was said in this letter, still holds true today. Role reversals in the households, mothers raising children as single parents & those particular fathers not in the home doing whatever it is that they do (if this does not apply, no need to reply).
Our community still has that slave mentality built deep down in them. Low self worth, focus more on what shouldn't be focused on (over materialistic etc). We still have issues getting along with each other. Still the light skin/dark skin silliness! Still call each other N*ggas but try to justify it with acronyms and say its a term of endearment when it is Not but get mad when people of other races call you that same word regardless of how it's said (with the "A" or the "ER")...
We have come so far but yet, we are still stuck in the negative and ignorant mentality of "The White Man is holding me down". Or we come up with many other excuses of why we can't and won't do better.
We may be "Physically Free" but our mentality is so beat down that we are still Slaves Mentally...and that is so sad. As smart as the black community is, and as far as we could go, so many of us are still stuck on stupid! Don't get me wrong, this is not a way of putting down black people...I am just being honest and going by what I see on a regular basis!
(Regardless of how you feel about my post,Stop, Think, Stop again, Think again, take a couple days to think some more and then maybe comment):-)
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what was said...Even at a young age, my mother's teacher said the same thing(by her high school years)....Let me start off by saying, I have read the rumors of who supposedly wrote this book...But even if it were written within the last 20 years or so, going by history and the reading I have done, it is still pretty accurate about how slaves were treated and how things were done.
Now, on to what I was wanting to say.
A lot of what was said in this letter, still holds true today. Role reversals in the households, mothers raising children as single parents & those particular fathers not in the home doing whatever it is that they do (if this does not apply, no need to reply).
Our community still has that slave mentality built deep down in them. Low self worth, focus more on what shouldn't be focused on (over materialistic etc). We still have issues getting along with each other. Still the light skin/dark skin silliness! Still call each other N*ggas but try to justify it with acronyms and say its a term of endearment when it is Not but get mad when people of other races call you that same word regardless of how it's said (with the "A" or the "ER")...
We have come so far but yet, we are still stuck in the negative and ignorant mentality of "The White Man is holding me down". Or we come up with many other excuses of why we can't and won't do better.
We may be "Physically Free" but our mentality is so beat down that we are still Slaves Mentally...and that is so sad. As smart as the black community is, and as far as we could go, so many of us are still stuck on stupid! Don't get me wrong, this is not a way of putting down black people...I am just being honest and going by what I see on a regular basis!
(Regardless of how you feel about my post,Stop, Think, Stop again, Think again, take a couple days to think some more and then maybe comment):-)
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LibraryThing member OBridget1
What I'm about to say may tick a lot of people off but if you haven't read the book, never lived this, or you have and/or its you...it may (or may not) touch a nerve...and do not come onto my personal review with negativity and ignorance...I am a people watcher and I grew up watching roles like
Let me start off by saying, I have read the rumors of who supposedly wrote this book...But even if it were written within the last 20 years or so, going by history and the reading I have done, it is still pretty accurate about how slaves were treated and how things were done.
Now, on to what I was wanting to say.
A lot of what was said in this letter, still holds true today. Role reversals in the households, mothers raising children as single parents & those particular fathers not in the home doing whatever it is that they do (if this does not apply, no need to reply).
Our community still has that slave mentality built deep down in them. Low self worth, focus more on what shouldn't be focused on (over materialistic etc). We still have issues getting along with each other. Still the light skin/dark skin silliness! Still call each other N*ggas but try to justify it with acronyms and say its a term of endearment when it is Not but get mad when people of other races call you that same word regardless of how it's said (with the "A" or the "ER")...
We have come so far but yet, we are still stuck in the negative and ignorant mentality of "The White Man is holding me down". Or we come up with many other excuses of why we can't and won't do better.
We may be "Physically Free" but our mentality is so beat down that we are still Slaves Mentally...and that is so sad. As smart as the black community is, and as far as we could go, so many of us are still stuck on stupid! Don't get me wrong, this is not a way of putting down black people...I am just being honest and going by what I see on a regular basis!
(Regardless of how you feel about my post,Stop, Think, Stop again, Think again, take a couple days to think some more and then maybe comment):-)
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what was said...Even at a young age, my mother's teacher said the same thing(by her high school years)....Let me start off by saying, I have read the rumors of who supposedly wrote this book...But even if it were written within the last 20 years or so, going by history and the reading I have done, it is still pretty accurate about how slaves were treated and how things were done.
Now, on to what I was wanting to say.
A lot of what was said in this letter, still holds true today. Role reversals in the households, mothers raising children as single parents & those particular fathers not in the home doing whatever it is that they do (if this does not apply, no need to reply).
Our community still has that slave mentality built deep down in them. Low self worth, focus more on what shouldn't be focused on (over materialistic etc). We still have issues getting along with each other. Still the light skin/dark skin silliness! Still call each other N*ggas but try to justify it with acronyms and say its a term of endearment when it is Not but get mad when people of other races call you that same word regardless of how it's said (with the "A" or the "ER")...
We have come so far but yet, we are still stuck in the negative and ignorant mentality of "The White Man is holding me down". Or we come up with many other excuses of why we can't and won't do better.
We may be "Physically Free" but our mentality is so beat down that we are still Slaves Mentally...and that is so sad. As smart as the black community is, and as far as we could go, so many of us are still stuck on stupid! Don't get me wrong, this is not a way of putting down black people...I am just being honest and going by what I see on a regular basis!
(Regardless of how you feel about my post,Stop, Think, Stop again, Think again, take a couple days to think some more and then maybe comment):-)
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LibraryThing member MsBridgetReads
What I'm about to say may tick a lot of people off but if you haven't read the book, never lived this, or you have and/or its you...it may (or may not) touch a nerve...and do not come onto my personal review with negativity and ignorance...I am a people watcher and I grew up watching roles like
Let me start off by saying, I have read the rumors of who supposedly wrote this book...But even if it were written within the last 20 years or so, going by history and the reading I have done, it is still pretty accurate about how slaves were treated and how things were done.
Now, on to what I was wanting to say.
A lot of what was said in this letter, still holds true today. Role reversals in the households, mothers raising children as single parents & those particular fathers not in the home doing whatever it is that they do (if this does not apply, no need to reply).
Our community still has that slave mentality built deep down in them. Low self worth, focus more on what shouldn't be focused on (over materialistic etc). We still have issues getting along with each other. Still the light skin/dark skin silliness! Still call each other N*ggas but try to justify it with acronyms and say its a term of endearment when it is Not but get mad when people of other races call you that same word regardless of how it's said (with the "A" or the "ER")...
We have come so far but yet, we are still stuck in the negative and ignorant mentality of "The White Man is holding me down". Or we come up with many other excuses of why we can't and won't do better.
We may be "Physically Free" but our mentality is so beat down that we are still Slaves Mentally...and that is so sad. As smart as the black community is, and as far as we could go, so many of us are still stuck on stupid! Don't get me wrong, this is not a way of putting down black people...I am just being honest and going by what I see on a regular basis!
(Regardless of how you feel about my post,Stop, Think, Stop again, Think again, take a couple days to think some more and then maybe comment):-)
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what was said...Even at a young age, my mother's teacher said the same thing(by her high school years)....Let me start off by saying, I have read the rumors of who supposedly wrote this book...But even if it were written within the last 20 years or so, going by history and the reading I have done, it is still pretty accurate about how slaves were treated and how things were done.
Now, on to what I was wanting to say.
A lot of what was said in this letter, still holds true today. Role reversals in the households, mothers raising children as single parents & those particular fathers not in the home doing whatever it is that they do (if this does not apply, no need to reply).
Our community still has that slave mentality built deep down in them. Low self worth, focus more on what shouldn't be focused on (over materialistic etc). We still have issues getting along with each other. Still the light skin/dark skin silliness! Still call each other N*ggas but try to justify it with acronyms and say its a term of endearment when it is Not but get mad when people of other races call you that same word regardless of how it's said (with the "A" or the "ER")...
We have come so far but yet, we are still stuck in the negative and ignorant mentality of "The White Man is holding me down". Or we come up with many other excuses of why we can't and won't do better.
We may be "Physically Free" but our mentality is so beat down that we are still Slaves Mentally...and that is so sad. As smart as the black community is, and as far as we could go, so many of us are still stuck on stupid! Don't get me wrong, this is not a way of putting down black people...I am just being honest and going by what I see on a regular basis!
(Regardless of how you feel about my post,Stop, Think, Stop again, Think again, take a couple days to think some more and then maybe comment):-)
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LibraryThing member RoxieT
Wow! A short read but very profound! Almost 150 years since slavery ended in the United States, yet the "prophecies" from this "method" continue to influence the black culture "for at least 300 hundreds years."
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Original language
English
Physical description
38 p.; 8.5 inches
ISBN
1495300552 / 9781495300554
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