Willie Lynch Letter Analysis

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I founded it very difficult to finish reading this letter from Willie Lynch. The way in which he explains how slaves need to be treated. His humiliating program to control those individuals from escaping and the techniques to be used were envy, fear, and distrust. Up until now, I could not believe there was a letter with so many degrading ideas to punish and control human beings. In this letter he expressed that his purpose was to destroy people from the African community for hundreds of years. In a way, today, we can see the impact of this type of mentality.
I think that distrust and fear are prevalent in many individuals who are descendants of the Black African community. In the case of young people, there have been many cases where they

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