Do you see evidence of Willie Lynch in the black community today?

Question

Willie Lynch was a carribean slave owner who wrote a manual on how to control slaves.
Among other things, he taught slave owners how to control their slaves better by pitting them against eachother, black man against black woman, black child against black adult, light skinned against dark skinned, ect.

Specifically concerning the relationship between the blackman and blackwoman, he instructed slave owners to humiliate the black man to show the black woman he had NO power to protect his family. Because of this, the black woman was forced to assume the dominant role while the family had no examples of postive men to follow.

If you agree that the effects of this can still be seen today, what can we do to stop it?

Answer 1

I agree that it is still around and how do we stop it? Well, all I got is educate but is that enough to completely reverse something that has been imbedded in our brains for generations and generations?

Answer 2

Let's first say, and yet we stand. I believe people give this one person way too much credit. You don't need a book to teach people to mistreat those they already think is below them to start with. Are there signs of this in today's African American community, of course, but I would not give this one entity too much credit for it. How to change this, just like it took time for the problem to spread it will time time for the solution and believe it or not the pendulum started swinging towards the positive years ago. The more positive roles models our children are exposed to the better. We can not wait on the media to do this, they won't, it does not sell products. However keep an eye on that old man down the walk from you, the one who does volunteer work, that neighbor woman who still has a few kids over to bake biscuits from scratch with, keep a quiet on on the real role models, the ones no one else is watching.

Answer 3

I understand the effects of slavery, but Willie Lynch has nothing to do with why black men or any man in general today have kids then walk out or direspect a woman by any other means. That's just being a coward, black, white, Latino whatever. It is hard to find positive male role models in any race these days. Any color man can cheat on, beat, or walk out on his wife. Is that a positive role model?No. The solution is how you raise your children: teach your boys to be respectful,responsible,and ambitious whether there is a male influence or not.

Answer 4

Yes! This is why are young black men are being put back into shackles in the state prisions. It makes me so mad that we are cursed to be broken away from our brothers. I wish more Black men could stand up and join their us and trying to better ourselves. We need to learn to unite and forget about of light and dark skin. We are all black brothers and sistas that need each other we need to learn about self-love and get rid of all of those awful stereotypes about us.