The Willie Lynch playbook.

         I don't care if there was an actual Willie Lynch letter, I believe that the basic premise of the so called letter is true: That you can better control blacks by dividing them.

Here is how one writer from the island of St. Vincent describes how the Willie Lynch control over black folks works.

 "The gruesome period of slavery was stained with the blood, sweat, and the tears of the Negro race. I speak of the period of African slavery. During this time of history, Western owners of African slaves saw an escalation of slave insurrection which was becoming a common problem; as a result, the slave owners were using stringent measures to gain a handle on the situation; measures that made the slaves less productive, such as amputation of body parts or death. These measures were designed to discourage the dangerous and costly occurrences, such as revolts, sabotage, etc.

This was a dark period in black history and this era saw the rise of a slave owner whose personification was constructed of pure hate for the black race and an uncanny desire to protect and maximize the profitability of his investment (slave and the other benefits of owning a plantation). This man was William Lynch but he is better known as Willie Lynch. In desperation for a solution, the slave owner Willie Lynch stumbled upon a solution. This plan was instrumental in dismantling the unity and common goal of freedom that lent cohesiveness and secrecy to the plans and execution of the actions of rebellion and sabotage by the enslaved blacks.

Lynch went about sowing the seeds of distrust and betrayal as he created an atmosphere of disunity among the enslaved. He took advantage of every difference he found among the community and he used them to his benefit but to the African captives’ detriment. Lynch used simple and insignificant differences to divide the community; he put the tall negro against the short negro, the light skinned negro against the dark skinned negro, the negro who worked in the house against the negro that worked in the field; the male against the female; as a result, total chaos ensued on the plantations among the Africans.

The masters developed new method of punishment to complement the brutal order that was prevalent. Therefore, acts of disloyalty were not only punished with amputations, castration, death, etc. that was common; but other subtle means of punishment were implemented. The enslaved that were considered disloyal to their masters and his management system were also punished with demotion, they were sold to plantations that were more cruel than the one on which they lived, while the slaves who betrayed the movement to gain freedom and better treatment were rewarded with a promotion.

As a result, this system saw field slaves who betrayed the cause of freedom given cushy assignments in the master’s house; these slaves were not willing to trade their new life of ease for anything; while the enslaved that worked in the house or in some other position of ease, who were believed to have been disloyal to their masters but loyal to the cause of freedom, were banished to the agonizing toil and maltreatment of the field, they were separated from their family or sold to plantations with a greater level of cruelty.
Because of the total lack of trust that became prevalent within the Negro community, the black captives lost sight of the big picture of freedom, a right they once had and wanted again; if not for themselves but for their children. Unfortunately, the state of disunity and betrayal that existed in the community was instrumental in changing the objective into one that saw the enslaved community becoming preoccupied with attaining a life of ease for themselves rather than freedom they once held dear. As a result of the prevalence of betrayal that existed, It became dangerous even to be seen consulting together, for to be so seen was an opportunity for some desperate slave to fabricate a story to attain for him or herself a life of ease.

When Willie Lynch saw the effectiveness of sowing seeds of division, divisiveness and betrayal among the enslaved and the fruitfulness such had, he became the champion of the control of the enslaved race; as a result, during 1712, William Lynch went on a tour of the Caribbean, North America, Central America and Europe, teaching the art of that which worked well for him. " [Source]

Whether you believe the stories about Willie Lynch or not, what you can't deny is that there are a lot of Willie Lynch type tactics being used against people of color today.

J Edger Hoover used it during the peak of the civil rights struggle, various police departments across the country used it against the Black Panther party, and fast forward to modern times where we can see conservative media outlets like FOX VIEWS using it effectively as well. "See our Negroes (ahem ahem, Charles Payne; Harris Faulkner) they are not like you other Negroes.". 

And let's not forget Donald trump. The man who wants to use Willie Lynch style tactics to punch his ticket into the White House.

"In this election, Donald Trump has used a grieving black father’s loss to try to pit black voters against Mexican immigrants. He employs black spokespeople to tell black voters that immigrants are taking their jobs. He tweets false crime statistics as a ploy to get black people to talk about “black-on-black” crime and distract from the hate crimes at his rallies.

He deploys female supporters to undermine other women on TV by criticizing—of all things—their breast size. When a reporter grilled him on his treatment of women, he rallied women to viciously attack that woman.

Then, when his campaign manager manhandled a reporter, Trump 1) sent women out as “grab-gate truthers” to insist it never happened, and 2) dispatched women to—predictably—blame the victim and insinuate that she deserved it.
 

Mr. “I’ll be the best thing that ever happened to women” (yes, he actually said that) is fond of employing rape metaphors in service of his xenophobia (re: China). All the while, he openly cavorts with actual, convicted rapists. So obsessed with rape as idiom, he’s unconcerned with rape as fact.

this election, this career beauty pageant owner will facilitate women slut-shaming, fat-shaming and all-around body-shaming one another. That’s made easier in a year when “There are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women” comes from the mouth of even a Hillary Clinton surrogate.

The Queens, N.Y., native, who won the majority of his state’s Hispanic primary voters last month, will appeal to chasms among Hispanics: of income, citizenship status, national origin and exiles vs. immigrants (“Nothing against immigrants, but my parents were exiles. And the exile experience is different than the immigrant experience,” Marco Rubio has said). Trump will employ a strategy, as candidly described by one senator, “to divide and conquer the people ... on assistance,” to get them “to look down at” each other.

This is how Trump—a man who wants to ban Muslims from the country—got the leader of the Nation of Islam to say about him, “I like what I'm looking at,” on the strength of Trump’s giving the most anti-Semitic speech of any presidential candidate since David Duke (who, not coincidentally, has endorsed Trump).
 

That’s the 2016 presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s path to victory: getting enough people like Louis Farrakhan to make common cause with people like David Duke. If that sounds preposterous, consider that the Nation of Islam and Nazis have famously played footsie together before.

Trump knows all of this.

He also knows that history is replete with minority groups used as foils—Chinese and Mexican immigrants as strikebreakers on the railroads, and black workers as a “labor reserve” in the North, having fled the Jim Crow South, where black people served as the original cheap labor: free. "[More]

Somebody has been doing his homework. Now let's see if you Negroes have been doing yours.

*Pic from npr.org.