The Circle Outside The Box

The United States of America,” the greatest nation on the face of earth”, quoted by President Barack Obama, operates like any and all civilized nations, by the foundation of laws and traditions created by its fore-fathers. While the United States history dates back to the year 1776, when the country declared its independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, African-American history dates to the year of 1619, when the first abduction of Africans landed them in what we know as Fort Monroe, just thirty miles from Jamestown Virginia. American –History proves that this was although not the end of, the begining of the American Negro and slavery as we know. It is my up most, profound duty to explain to you that after over three hundred and fifty years, we still are held captive by the same chains that held our ancestors centuries ago.

Long before the United States of America was considered a country, the inhumane seed of slavery had already been planted in its soil. Inherited from its British superiors slavery arrived along with the first settlers from Great Britain in Jamestown Virginia in 1607. In just the short period of 12 years these people brought over the first 19 African-American Slaves. Over the next years, thousands  more men and women would be brought from their native home land of Africa, striped of their culture and introduce to a life of vicious, cold-hearted management amongst them. A hundred years later do to some extreme defiance of this way of  life, slave masters would summon from the British West Indies a man who would call himself the master of a modest plantation, Mr. William Lynch. In 1712 William lynch spoke to a group of slave masters in James River Virginia. Lynch’s Idea was that the way the slave master controlled the slaves was the wrong approach and should be modified to his more modern way by turning the slaves against each other. He would implement the concept to turn the old against the young, the man against the woman, and to use things such as height, skin color, and weight to disrupt order amongst the slave making them more vulnerable to the control of their master. Lynch’s theory was that these principles would control the slaves for 300 years and is by my opinion proving to be truthful.

Just over thirty years later from the William Lynch speech Thomas Jefferson one of the most influential fore-fathers of this nation would be born in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson widely spread known for being the author of the Declaration of Independence and being the third president of the Nation, was himself a slave owner. Although there is no proof of a connection between Lynch and President Jefferson because Thomas wasn’t born at the time of the Lynch Speech, Thomas was a direct descendant of some eminent individuals of Virginia, the same area in which Lynch gave his speech. President Jefferson being the first-born son of nine siblings would inherit his family business (Slavery) and continue its legacy throughout his life. Some would argue that the President was against slavery due to his purposed legislation that was approved by congress to end the importation of African Slaves. Thomas Jefferson even at one time was called the Negro President. All this would be questionable since his legislation increased the value in his slaves and decreased the chance of insurgence related to new arrivals of slaves and his nick name being earned only because he counted slave votes in Virginia to win his election. By no means could this President have been against slavery when he wrote a bill to prevent free blacks from moving to Virginia and to punish interracial relations. This Fore-fathers views on slavery according to Stephen Ambrose said Negroes to be inferior to Whites, childlike, untrustworthy and like all slave-masters property. Strangely the Declaration of Independence was sign more than fifty years later and Thomas wouldn’t become president until more than eight-five years later. It just makes you wonder where he got his values from and just why they are so close to Lynch Ideas.

In 1787 The Congress of the Confederation would make an act against slavery called the Northwest Ordinance. This ordinance basically freed slaves North and West of the Ohio River, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, Ohio and others would adopt the ordinance. The south on the other hand, for economical reason would continue the practice of slavery structured upon the African-American. This would start a feud between the two in 1861 and begin what we know as the Civil War. During the war President Abraham Lincoln pressured by his congress would issue the Emancipation Proclamation, stating that all men be created equal in the States. This still would not bring an end to slavery in the south which opposed the president and his views. After a relentless battle stretching over a period of six years the south would be defeated. The thirteenth Amendment would be added to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery in the physical state. After the Thirteenth Amendment would come into play in 1865, African-Americans would endure another form of slavery that would appear as inhumane as in the early 1700s. White America would organize another system to control the Negro, the pin which would assume to be as powerful as the whip. The white man would still use his same Willie Lynch approach of divide and conquer secrecy, intimidation and domination over the black man as he used over 100 years earlier. It would be called what we know as the Jim Crow Laws. While the African-American was considered to be a free man these laws, along with organizations like the Ku Klux Klan made life almost unbearable to live in the United States. Blacks would succeed in getting paid for their labor in some cases, but would be forced to take work at cut-rate prices doing low-end jobs such as housekeeping, being a butler, or a chauffeur. Blacks would still be considered as incompetents, dishonest, ignorant, substandard, and subordinate to Whites. Prisons would replace plantation to support slave master. Prisoners would be leased to work labor for profits, and Jim Crow Laws would quickly fill them up with none other than the black man. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) made up of regular White citizens, law enforcement agencies, politicians, Judges, and not limited to religious groups, would up hold the standard of the Jim Crow Laws to the fullest extent of their power. Punishments of violations to these irrational laws, such as drinking water from the nice clean Whites only fountain or using their bathroom facility could result in imprisonment (slavery), beatings, or even worse lynching’s leading to death.

It would almost take another 80 years in 1954 when the legionary Thurgood Marshall would win the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which would rule that, the segregation of schools as being unconstitutional. This would be a great advantage to African-Americans and launch the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. For the next 15 years or so a number of historic events would change the social out look of the Black community. This would also be when some of the well-known heroes like W.E.B. Du Bois (Co-Founder of the NAACP), Malcolm X (Muslim Mosque Inc.), Huey Newton and Bobby Seale (The Black Panther Party) and of course, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (SCLC) would heighten. The intensification of talk on subjects like poverty, discrimination, education, racist oppression, segregated housing, and other mistreatment among Blacks, would inflame numerous boycotts, marches, speeches, riots, and acts of violence in black communities all around the country. Bloodshed from the viciousness, would eventually claim the lives of the Brother Malcolm, Dr. King, the President John F. Kennedy, and many others through out the U.S. Despite the hassles, distresses, and misfortunes, the Civil Rights Movement would be a success. Blacks would again become victorious gaining the equality as American Citizens.

After an extended and belligerent battle the United States presently has disassociated itself from any and all acts of racialism publicly. Thanks to our President Barack Obama, African-Americans have conquered endeavors of equality in all aspects here in the United States. Whites have reluctantly accepted the Black Man as an equivalent. This appears to be victorious for the Blacks but as stated early, Willie Lynch Idea was to control the American Black Man for at least 300 years or more. Like the television, the White Man has enhanced this system to seem almost invisible. Whites will no longer publicly speak out against the Black Man or openly invite confrontation. Whites have taken up an executive role, allowing Blacks to manage their own social disorder, injecting themselves with the famous Lynch needle. The Black Man totally denigrate the Black Woman! The Black Woman has taken the crown of a famous saying of Whites about the Black Man (Niggaz aint Shit), while the youth transpires a disrespect towards the elders never to be seen before. The mixture as Lynch predicted, keeps African-Americans enslaved to poverty, drugs, alcohol, crime, unemployment, discrimination, and a host of other indecencies. The Black community must create a solution to put an end to the theory that they can’t live a productive or civilized life. We all as of today need to come together and bring to a completion this misconception; otherwise the African-American would continue to encounter tribulation in the United States of America fore fathers and the William Lynch speech that as of next year will mark exactly 300 years.

(Any and all research was performed solely by the author. The author takes full responsibility for any mistakes in dates, names, events, or theories, which may have occurred in this article. This author operates as an individual and by no means function with or for any religious, political, social groups or organizations, any resembles in opinions thoughts, or suggestions is exclusively by coincidence. Please direct all comments questions or disputes to Antonio Bono Banks @ thecircleoutsidethebox.com