WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 112622 The Willie Lynch Letter (Part 2) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:05.040 And now go my mic back. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:11.799 You're like that, you can strike waters from headquarters behind him. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.120 And then if you're just tuning in the civic zacher, 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:16.720 I'm your host, Ramses Jock. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:18.920 He is Ramses joh, I am q Ward. You are 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:20.640 listening to civic cipher. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.279 And uh, yeah, We've got a lot fore to stick 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:27.160 around for, including the Willie Lynch Letter. For those that 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:34.479 are unfamiliar, there is a letter that has existed for 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.680 all of my adult life in the consciousness of lots 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:41.680 of black people. You may have heard it much longer 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.600 than that sure shirt, and you may have heard it 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.320 in hip hop songs. You may have heard it referred 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.680 to here and there, and certainly you've heard us refer 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:54.800 to it on this show. Well, we never took the 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.280 time to actually break down what it is, and of 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:58.880 course I can't get into the whole thing, but I'm 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.080 going to share some key points with you to just 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.440 kind of make that breathe a little bit. And then, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.360 of course, for our way black History fact, we're going 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:12.880 to talk about American slavery again compared to slavery elsewhere 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.240 in the world. So a lot to stick around for. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.520 First and foremost, let's discuss be Aba. How to become 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:22.160 a better Ally Baba. This Weeek's Baba sponsored by Major Threads, 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.720 where high fashion meets timeless men'swear. Visit majorthreads dot com 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.720 to find out more. So what we want you to 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.560 do to become a better ally is watch a movie? 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.600 A movie, A movie, a movie Man. The movie is 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.679 called is That Black Enough for You? On Netflix? Is 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.120 that Black Enough for You? I'll read a bit from 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.720 celebrated writer and film historian Elvis Mitchell. Is That Black 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.360 Enough for You? As both the documentary and deeply personal essay, 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.000 the film examines the crack and power of cinema from 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.760 a perspective often overlooked, the African American contribution to films 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.200 released from the landmark era of the seventies. It's a 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.240 deep dive into the impact that point of view on 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.080 movies as well as popular culture. A love letter to film, 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.280 it poses questions they've never been asked, let alone answered. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.600 Crucial artistic voices including director Charles Burnette, Samuel L. Jackson, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.960 will Be go Over, Laurence Fishburns and Dea and others. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.440 Artists offer their distinctive prism on the creators and films 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.080 that dazzled and inspired, providing insight into the history of 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.000 black representation going back to the earliest days of cinema 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:29.080 and the cultural impact of witnessing unapologetic blackness. Had a 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:29.919 chance to watch that. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:31.280 Movie, I still need to. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.320 Yeah, yeah, I know I kind of surprised you with this, 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.600 but I watched that movie and I was like, you 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:38.560 know what, we needed to share it with people. It's 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:43.280 a great film. It's not nearly as heavy as some 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:44.960 of the other things we talk about on the show, 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.440 so you know, you're welcome to sit and enjoy it 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.639 with other folks. It's not a huge tear jerk or 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.520 anything like that, but it's super informative and it gives 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:58.639 you some perspective on a part of a facet of 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:02.880 society that is very important. You don't even realize how 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.639 important it is until you have someone like this tell 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.120 you how important it is to be represented in cinema 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.040 and see the impact, the cultural impact and the ripple effect. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.080 And once again, everything kind of starts off black and 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.720 then gets repackaged for the masses. So again, is that 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:23.000 black enough for you? On Netflix? Now? The Willie Lynch Letter, 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:29.600 let me give you some background on Willy Lynch. So 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:36.560 there is this letter that this gentleman allegedly I have 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:42.000 to say that this is important. It's largely been suggested 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.200 that the letter is not a first hand account, it's 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.040 not an original letter from an original person. This has 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:55.680 largely been the consensus in so far as we know 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:00.360 from the community scientific literary community that researches these. So 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.000 we have to assume this is a work of fiction. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:08.600 With that said, is exceptionally profound, and we still recognize 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.480 the truths written in this work of fiction. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.080 Okay, if that be the case, we're not saying it's 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.640 absolutely fiction either. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.800 Thank you. But you know, we need to preserve our 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.280 journalistic integrity here, so we're not going to gloss over that. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:29.080 As Q mentioned. So, the WILLI Lynch letter basically is 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:35.400 Willy Lynch's a support supposedly in an old white man 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:41.919 who is a seasoned slaver and teaches other slavers, slaveholders, 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:47.479 and slave masters the best way to get orderly production 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:54.799 from their slaves without having to perpetually, perpetually, yes, without 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:59.840 having to lynch all of them, you know, Because there's 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:01.599 a there's a statement that I'm not sure if I 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.760 put in a notes here, but I know it to 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:08.919 be true just from being familiar with this letter. He 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.280 says effectually that human beings. Oh, I'm sure he doesn't 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.640 refer to black people as human beings. But we have 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:21.000 a natural tendency to seek our customary freedom. So our 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.800 natural state is not to be captured and you know, 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:27.080 imprisoned or enslaved. Our natural state is to be free. 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.400 Compares us a lot to horses. Us by us, I 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:35.200 mean black people. Now, before I get into this any further, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.719 please take a moment. It might take you thirty minutes, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.200 maybe thirty forty five minutes to read through the whole thing. 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.560 It will change your life. Read it once a year 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.760 on Juneteenth, if nothing else, Okay, just to remind you 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.080 of the legacy that slavery can have. I know, I know, 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.000 we don't like talking about slavery either. I know you 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.120 don't like hearing about it. We don't like talking about it. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:02.119 But this kind of helps us bring it full circle. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:04.280 So you understand why it's important that we talk about it, 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.560 Why it's important that we address it, Why it's important 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.480 that we talk about things like reparations, Why it's important 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:14.960 we talk about things like systemic racism, and what it 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.839 is that we need to move forward as a people 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.120 so that we're not constantly on the bottom of the 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.279 list for healthcare outcomes, and on the bottom of the 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.360 list for income inequality, and on the bottom of the 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:29.320 list for police brutality, and the injustices and the criminal 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.920 injustice system, and so forth and so on. We don't 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.080 want to be there. It's not our natural state. We 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.960 don't celebrate being there. We need to fix it, but 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.400 we need to have these important conversations. I'll continue, all right, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:45.800 So again, Willie Lench, you writes this letter, and I 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:51.720 guess delivers a speech to other slaveholders in the South, 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:58.440 teaching them how to get as you mentioned, perpetual servitude 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.800 out of black people. And I want you to listen 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.480 to this letter for the brilliance of this because it 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:07.920 makes sense. That's why it's in the I believe it's 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.840 in the Library of Congress, even though they acknowledge it's 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.960 a work of fiction, or they suggested may be a 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.520 work of fiction. That's probably why I were to say 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.320 that they still keep it on the archives as an 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:25.840 important document that is exceptionally relative to relevant, sorry to 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:30.920 American history. So I'll read through it and will pop 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:31.840 back and forth me in UQ. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:32.600 That works. 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.800 So he starts saying, I have a full proof method 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.160 of controlling your black slaves. I guarantee every one of 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.080 you that if installed correctly, it will control the slaves 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.520 for at least three hundred years. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:44.240 Okay. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.400 In the actual letter, he says three hundred years, if 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:52.920 not forever. Says on the top of my list is age, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.120 but it is only there because it starts with A. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.520 The second is color or shade. There is intelligence, sex, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.760 size of plantations, and status on plantations, attitude of owners, 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:05.600 whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.960 east west, north south, have fine hair, coarse hair, or 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.320 as tall or short. Now that you have a list 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.960 of differences, I shall give you an outline of action. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.200 But before that I shall assume sorry. I shall assure 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.560 you that distrust is stronger than trust, and envy is 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:26.920 stronger than adulation, respect or admiration. So this letter basically 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.720 starts off with him saying that we need to separate 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.280 these people, We need to create a class system, that 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.480 this type of hair is better than that type of hair, 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:37.360 this type of skin is better than this type of 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.600 status on a plantation is better than that type of status, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:46.320 you know, to create nb, to create division and to 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.439 separate these folks who are all slaves, but to basically, 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.400 what is it stratifying? Is that the word I'm looking for? 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:59.640 I'm not certain, but it's just listening to this. It's 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.800 such a cruel and evil genius, that's the thing about it. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:08.120 And it doesn't just apply to slaves. Applies to human 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.840 It has since then and seems that it forever will 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:17.640 apply to all classes of human beings. The masses, the majority, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.959 divide them and here are the ways that you can 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.160 do that. And we've read this before, so we kind 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:28.600 of see where this is going before our listeners keep listening. Yeah, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:33.040 it gets heavy, all right, so let me see where was. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:38.480 I don't forget. You must pitch the old black male 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.560 versus the young blackmail, and the young Blackmail against the 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:46.760 old blackmail. We'll take a moment right here. For those 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:51.239 of you who've watched Django Unchained, it's a Quentin Tarantino 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.000 film came out some years back. Some of this stuff 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:57.640 is on full display. Okay, all right? 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:02.880 And that film is it satirical but based on some truth? 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.280 Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. That's kind of the similar approach 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.400 that people have to this letter, where it's you know, 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.079 these things didn't happen, but this type of stuff happened. 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:17.720 These concepts were pulled from other places and are verified 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.199 in other parts of society. They're just compiled in this 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.680 and this is kind of a reader's digest version of slavery, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:28.760 you know, or how to make a slave, which is 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.280 the title of the letter. All right, you must use 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.760 the dark skinned slaves versus the light skinned slaves, and 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.400 the light skinned slaves versus the dark skinned slaves. Que 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.200 that's sound familiar, Yeah, oh yeah, all right. You must 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.160 use the female versus the male, and the male versus 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:45.040 the female. You must also have your white servants and 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.920 overseers distrust all blacks. It's necessary that your slaves trust 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:53.640 and depend on us. They must love, respect, and trust 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.960 only us. Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control. 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.319 Use them, have your wives and children, use them, never 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:04.040 miss an opportunity. If used intensely for one year, the 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:10.480 slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful of each other. All right, 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:15.600 let us make a slave. What do we need? First 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.080 of all, we need a black I wish I could 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.600 say this to you, but the FCC is listening, So 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:29.120 we'll say a black inward man, a pregnant inWORD woman, 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:34.320 and her baby inWORD boy. Second, we will use the 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.920 same basic principles that we use in breaking a horse, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:43.000 combined with some more sustaining factors. What we do with 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.000 horses is that we break them from one form of 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.400 life to another. That is, we reduce them from their 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.240 natural state and nature. Whereas nature provides them with the 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.400 natural capacity to take care of their offspring, we break 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:00.000 that natural string of independence from them and thereby create 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.320 a dependency status so that we may be able to 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.360 get from them useful production for our business and pleasure. 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.400 Now I cut that out of the middle of a paragraph. 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.040 That's a deep one. You know, we gotta again. This 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.480 is the reader's digest, of the reader's digest. But please 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.360 read this. I'm just giving you some some key points here. 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:24.560 But as you know, you know he's he's suggesting that 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.840 we need to change the family dynamic. You'll you'll I'll 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.160 make that point a little bit further as I continue 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:32.920 to read, or rather he'll make the point. You'll hear 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:40.400 me illustrate that on his behalf, and a lot of 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.360 things may come together for you. You know, when you 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.760 think of like the angry black mama trope, you know, 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.800 the strong black woman trope, you know that is a 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.319 function of that that it was born out of necessity. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:13:00.360 You'll you'll see in just a minute, this is why 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:05.160 that is a character in our society where we all 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.840 know this is not a woman that you want to 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.240 have a problem with versus, you know, a black man. Now, 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.760 there is such thing as an angry black man. But 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.120 in your mind, which one do you think you can 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.160 appeal to more? Probably the black man. You don't want 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:21.439 to win an angry black woman. I don't want to 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.080 wit an angry black woman. You know what I'm saying. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.120 I know what that person has gone through and what 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:32.240 that person is trying to protect. So I'll continue, all right, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.080 here's another passage. Accordingly, both a wild horse and a 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:42.960 wild or nature natural sorry inWORD, is dangerous even if captured, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:46.720 for they will have the tendency to seek their customary freedom, 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.559 as I mentioned, and in doing so might kill you 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.240 in your sleep. So what is he saying here? Be 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:56.280 afraid of these black people because what we're doing to 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.760 them is wrong. It is not natural for them, and 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:04.360 they may kill you in their attempts to return to 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:07.719 their natural state, which is that of being free. So 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:12.960 what does that do? That not only creates division within 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.160 the ranks of black people in the society, but it 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:20.960 also creates a further divide, and it kind of compromises 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:24.480 your human capacity to empathize. You know, they'll kill you 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.120 if they get the chance. Who wants to be friends 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.840 with someone who might kill them? Now, let's keep them 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.800 over there. You know, this is the same thing that 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.960 happens when we think of the you know, the prison 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.400 industrial complex. You know, you've got to bear in mind 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:44.320 that there are absolutely bad people in this world, and 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.200 there are good people who end up in the criminal 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:50.400 justice system because of technicalities, because they're political prisoners, because 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:56.520 of whatever quotas that governments have to maintain in order 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:02.560 to satisfy the privatized prison industrial complex. And so it's 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:08.800 important that you do not feel empathy for those people 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:13.080 who are subjected to human rights vilization violations. This is 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.800 something that's true in a lot of areas in society, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.440 not just with black and brown people, not just with prisons. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:23.840 But you know, stay woke, all right, I'll continue. Therefore, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.640 if you break the female mother, she will break the 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.440 offspring in its early years of development, and when the 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.680 offspring is old enough to work, she will deliver it 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:37.280 up to you for her normal female protective tendencies will 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.320 have been lost in the original breaking process. For example, 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.400 take the case of the wild stud horse, a female 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.880 horse and an already infant horse, and compare the breaking 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:53.280 process with two captured inward males in their natural state, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:58.760 a pregnant inward woman with her infant offspring. Now it's 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:04.040 about to get heavy, okay, so buckle up, take the 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.840 stud or sorry, take the stud horse, break him for 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:15.120 limited containment. Completely break the female horse until she becomes 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.160 very gentle. Whereas you or anybody can ride her in comfort, 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:19.360 I don't love that. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:24.000 Can you explain what you or anybody can ride her 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:25.360 in comfort means? 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.360 In this content? I can absolutely do it. I think 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:34.560 that you're asking the question answers it, but I will 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.760 kind of paint a little bit more of that picture. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.120 You or anybody can ride her in comfort means that 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:45.240 you will not get any pushback, and that she now 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:50.320 acknowledges that this is a life and death decision, and 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.840 she's choosing life, and what comes with it is this. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:54.960 And we're no longer talking about the horse. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.200 And I will make that point abundantly clear with this 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:03.600 next paragraph. When it comes to breaking the uncivilized inward, 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.119 use the same process, but vary the degree and step 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.920 up the pressure so as to do a complete reversal 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.199 of the mind loss for a second ahead. When it 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:22.600 comes to breaking a person, step up the degree of pressure. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:29.840 So take what you would do to a horse, and 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.159 increase the amount of pressure that you apply him. I 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:39.520 reading that correct, proceed Take the meanest and most restless inward, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.359 strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:50.320 male inwards, the female and the inward infant, tar and 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:55.399 feather him. Tie each leg to a different horse, faced 0:17:55.480 --> 0:18:01.080 in opposite directions, set him a fire, and beat both 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.440 horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining inward. 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.760 The next step is to take a bull whip and 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.200 whip the remaining inward mail to the point of death 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:16.320 in front of the female and the infant. Don't kill him, 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:18.600 but put the fear of God in him, for he 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:26.399 can be useful for future breeding. So what this does, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:30.200 and please read this for yourself. That was a graphic 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.320 point in this letter. Again, I'll remind you that what 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:38.080 I read to you was actually what this says, and 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:41.600 actually what happened. You know, you tar and feathered, if 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.440 you know anything about that, that is painful by itself. Okay, 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.760 It burns your skin, and then they throw feathers on you, 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.920 just as like mocking you. They stick to you, can't 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.920 get it off, you know that sort of thing. Then 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:57.320 they tie you to horses, set you on fire, and 0:18:57.320 --> 0:18:59.680 then whip the horses so the horses run in opposite directions. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.640 And here's her body apart. This happens in full view 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:07.120 of a woman who is pregnant and has a baby already. Okay, 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.840 So the idea here is that she will see that happen, 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.920 realize that death is on the menu. Then she will 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.720 see you grab a whip and beat the other black 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.880 male slave who put it kindly to the point of death, 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.199 but you don't kill him, and then she will be 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:31.400 left frozen in fear. She will realize that she is helpless. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.240 Her protector has now been destroyed in front of her. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.200 And the reason that it's important that she witnesses it 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.760 is so that she will then raise her children in 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:47.359 reversed roles because if nothing happens to her, she feels like, Okay, 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.800 let me make sure that these people do not trip. 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:52.359 I have a little boy. I do not want to 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.040 see my boy get ripped apart in front of me. 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.640 That is that type of trauma. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.920 You know. And moreover, if I have a little girl. 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.720 Yeah, exactly, And if I have a little girl, I 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:05.720 need to make sure that the little girl knows that 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:10.520 she needs to be the person to uh interact with 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.640 these slave masters. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.119 In whichever may in whichever way would make them less violent. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:28.119 Now, the trauma of this type of thing, you know, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.920 You've seen slaves get whipped, You've seen slaves get killed, 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.840 hung from trees, all this sort of stuff. You may 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:39.480 not know that oftentimes when there was like a public 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:46.000 sorry public may not be the right word, but widely 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.280 shared punishment of a slave, that the slaves, the rest 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.400 of the slaves had to witness it. They kept everybody 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:54.960 on the same page. This what happened to you if 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.680 you break break the eggs that you were supposed to 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.160 be making for breakfast, or if you weren't quick enough 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.600 and washing the master's clothes or whatever, you know, that 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:05.840 sort of stuff. So you get whipped in front of 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:08.639 everyone else, they see the blood, the flesh chunks, you know, 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:15.120 getting whipped off your back, and everyone else would bear 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.159 witness to that trauma. It would then traumatize them and 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:20.600 keep them frozen in fear. Right, So this is kind 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:22.640 of the result of that, you know. But it starts 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:29.560 with showing the black woman what can happen to the 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:33.520 black men, and then you raise again, you raise your 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.359 children in reverse roles. You raise the woman to be 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.680 the strong one, the one to negotiate, the one to appeal, 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.320 the one, you know, whatever, all these things. You raise 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:44.480 the man, your male child, rather to be submissive, to 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.959 be you know, you don't want to have any problems 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:49.879 with these people. Let's, you know, keep you in the 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:52.280 shadows and make sure you get to work and you work, 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:55.320 and then when your work is done, then you know whatever, 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.080 we can have our party on Sunday during church or whatever. 0:21:58.119 --> 0:21:59.840 And when he says reverse roles, I don't want people 0:21:59.880 --> 0:22:02.280 to the impression that you're raising the daughters to be strong, 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.040 because you're raising them to be submissive as well. You're 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:07.920 just raising them to be the ones that interact most right. 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:09.400 That's why there's less. 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.600 Likely to receive the amount of rage and physical abuse 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:13.920 that your son will. 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:16.600 So I'll read a little bit more from this to 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:20.320 make that point that you just suggest. There we skip 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.879 down and says test her in every way, because she 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:25.960 is the most important factor for good economics. If she 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.879 shows any sign of resistance and submitting completely to your will, 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.840 do not hesitate to use the bull whip on her 0:22:32.880 --> 0:22:39.520 to extract the last bit of B word resistance out 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.560 of her. Take care not to kill her, for in 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:47.280 doing so, you spoil good economics. When in complete submission, 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:49.800 she will train her offspring in the early years to 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:54.399 submit to labor when they become of age. So this 0:22:54.560 --> 0:22:58.639 is about as much as we can cover from this letter, 0:23:00.720 --> 0:23:04.639 and it kind of shows you. Gives you a glimpse 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:08.600 into the mentality of a slaver right, of a slaveholder, 0:23:08.640 --> 0:23:11.000 of a slave master, which is not something you often get. 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:13.680 Can you read that last line again, please. 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:18.639 When in complete submission, she will train her offspring in 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:20.480 the early years to submit to labor when they become 0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:20.879 of age. 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:26.040 What a system to put in place. 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:28.520 And I want to go back to what you said, 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:37.400 which is that the system was designed to be perpetual. 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:44.919 So the family dynamic has been altered using a cemented 0:23:44.960 --> 0:23:49.520 by trauma that is now passed passed on, And even 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:52.080 if you don't feel the actual trauma or recall the 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:56.919 witnessing it, you know, the effects of that trauma are 0:23:56.960 --> 0:23:57.840 still very president. 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:01.720 Oh yeah, after a generation, this version of it isn't 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:03.560 even as necessary anymore. Right. 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:06.399 The parents are doing that teaching for you, for you, 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:10.000 and that's their natural state at that point. So unless 0:24:10.040 --> 0:24:13.040 something comes along to resets it, to reset it, that's 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:14.920 just kind of what it is. But fortunately we're working 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:16.560 on that too. Thank if you for listening. It was 0:24:16.600 --> 0:24:18.440 important that you know that we've got to move on. 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:21.560 So now it's time for the Wave Black History Fact, 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:24.359 which is a little bit more of the same. Today's 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.080