wow, i just read the Willie Lynch report. Is it a real letter that was wrote hundreds yrs ago?

Question

Tell me what u all think about it? If you haven't read it google or yahoo "Willie Lynch" report.

Answer 1

Looks like the general feeling is that it is a hoax. See link...

Answer 2

First, the writer of this speech has made hardly any attempt to use the writing/speech style of the early 18th century.

Second, the author was not at all successful at steering clear of very specific anachronisms. For instance the word “fool-proof,” used in the speech, actually dates from only 1902.

Third, a speaker would hardly need to so carefully identify the date and place of his speech, nor would he be likely to refer to King James as "our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish", unless he were a person of the 1990s making a clumsy attempt at writing a fake speech from the early 18th century.

And, by the way, James was long-dead by 1712, the monarch of that era being Queen Anne.

Finally, there is no evidence that a William Lynch from a "modest plantation" in the West Indies ever existed. There is, however, plenty of evidence for the existence of Captain William Lynch of Pittsylvania, Virginia, whom has been identified as the probable source of the verb “lynch,” and who was born fifty years after the date given in the speech above.

Answer 3

I've read it once before. And yes the division thing was in play then, and it still is now. BUT, there are many things wrong with the Black race that we need to take control of ourselves (i.e. being better fathers). Many times when there is an issue within our community, too many people want to defer to this letter.