Sep 30, 2019, 1:53 PM
Lisa Outhwaite: “Have you ever read The Making Of A Slave by Willie Lynch? It’s a reproduction of a speech supposedly given by Willie Lynch, slave-owner, around the early 1700s, in Virginia. It’s a guide on how to produce hard-working but docile slaves. Essentially he describes in detail on how to condition the female slave – it all works via the female. He would take a female slave, preferably one pregnant or with young children, and force her to watch the beating into submission of the most confident or masculine of the male slaves. The natural tendency in women to seek the most dominant protector and provider then suffers a crisis – she cannot rely on her own men for survival. This instinct for provision, that is at its most profound during pregnancy or when she has young children, is then transferred onto the slave owner. Despite his horrific abuses, he is seen as the dominant male and therefore the source of all security. The woman then is entirely submissive to him but, more importantly, she will raise all subsequent offspring to be obedient as that, to her mind at least, is the only way to secure their survival. … The relentless ridiculing of Western men within our media works in a similar fashion. Western women have shifted loyalty over to the slave-owner – the state. She then raises her children to respect this new source of provision and protection.”