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THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO
AND THE WILLIE LYNCH LETTER ARE
BEST SELLING BOOKS IN BLACK
WHY?
A Timely Book Review by…… Emanuel L.
Knight
- Special to The
DECEMBER, 2007
As 2007 draws to a close – by the Western calendar – there is a curiosity
prevailing in book buying in Black America. The Willie Lynch Letters and
The Making of a Slave, which has been number one or two on
all major best seller list for the last three years, is being rivaled for the
top spot by one of the perennials for Black Booksellers, The MisEducation
of the Negro, a 240 trade paperback that was first written and published
by the legendary, Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1937.
Of course we are only writing about “Best Sellers” lists that are maintained by
Independent Black Publishers. The “Willie Lynch Letters” whose main text
was exposed to perhaps billions of people worldwide, when Minister Louis
Farrakhan read it at the Million Man March in 1995, became a phenomenon when
Lushena Books added more researched documentation about the slave making process
of white
LUTHER WARNER: BOOKSELLER EXTRAORDINARIE
Mr. Luther Warner, the owner
and founder of Lushena Books, discounted and sold the booklet to national Black
Bookstores for $2.37. The Black Book Sellers, which includes Street Vendors in
many major
“Luther is the best, man. Nobody comes close to Luther in selling Black books.” Said a younger entrepreneur who modeled his own multi-million operation on the success of Luther Warner’s Lushena Books.
LUTHER WARNER is to independent Black bookselling, what Sister Shahrazad Ali is to Independent Black writing
Black America has never had the benefit of a bookseller on the level that Luther Warner reached in the 1990’s. He is to independent Black bookselling, what Sister Shahrazad Ali is to Independent Black writing. Though many try to duplicate, none can replicate what Lushena has meant to the Black book Industry over the past twenty years. Essence Magazine, began tracking the book buying volume of Black people in the 1990’s. They have documented the popularity of the Willie Lynch book. Because of its affordability, it may already exceeds The Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackman, By Sister Shahrazad Ali in Black readers over the past quarter century.
THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO
INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED BY DR. CARTER G. WOODSON
Black America owes an eternal debt to “Independent Black Booksellers” (independent Black booksellers is loosely, any one involved in marketing Black literature, to Black people, without the approval of white people).
Sister Shahrazad Ali, Luther
Warner and others took the necessary methodology of giants in Black Literature,
like Carter G. Woodson and J. A. Rogers (if they wanted to publish in racist
CARTER G. WOODSON: ICON
Dr. Carter G. Woodson is an icon. He is best known as the author of The Mis-Education of the Negro. But he is also the founder of what was first called “Black History Week.” It is now called Black History Month. In the early 1030’s he wrote and published a book that was/is called “The Education of the Negro.” In it he specifies how Black people were educated to be characterized by traits of PTSD (more later about this). No doubt, the specificity didn’t get the desired result. So it was not long before he wrote and published one of the most important books in history: “The Mis-Education of the Negro.”
Whereas “The Education of the Negro” specifies what was done to “educate” Black people. “The Mis-Education of the Negro” documents the fact that it was a deliberate misinformation education to reinforce the self hatred of a people who had all but lost “true knowledge of self, God and the devil.”
Though he probably never heard of Willie Lynch, the 1712 Caucasian teacher of other slave owners, about “how to make a slave,” Carter G. Woodson could well have called his classic, ‘How the Students of Willie Lynch Used His Doctrine to Mis-Educate Black People.’
WHO IS READING SERIOUS BLACK BOOKS
WHEN THE TREND IS TO READ URBAN ROMANCE FICTION?
The wholly armed Research arm
of Black media conglomerate, United Brothers Communications Systems, The
Newport Newservice, researched to determine the reason for the resurgence of
the 70 years old “polemic” by Dr. Woodson. As it is, when one looks seriously at
anything Black in
“There are many reasons for the dramatic increase in the readership of the Mis-Education of the Negro.” Said Director Founder and Owner of UBUS Communications Systems, H. Khalif Khalifah.
“The popularity of the Willie Lynch Letter, which is thought to be a text to educate white slave owners to train and maintain chattel slaves, maybe the catalysts.
“But the demographics of the readership maybe the most important consideration. If you go back 12 years to the Million Man March and add to the school ages of the ones who may have had the greatest presence at the march, you get into the ages of twenties for school aged young Black men; and the mid-thirties for college aged young Black men at the time.” Continued Khalifah.
“After trying to live as a normal adult in a White Supremacist System, Black people, especially the Black youth, are keen to learn all they can about Black people. That is, ones who realize that a Black person who tries to fit into “the system” as a natural black adult. The slavery experience haunts Black people, even in this day and age.” Added Khalifah.
WHY, HOW CAME US TO THIS CHARACTERIZATION?
It is far from documented fact, but indications are as young, anyone, comes to the age of reason, the ‘why’ question about who they are and how they became such, conjures up a strong desire for answers. Many young Blacks find some vital parts of the answers when they read “Willie Lynch Letters and the Making of a Slave.” Unfortunately, some do not read it until they are captured, one way or another, and put in jail. Because of the power and price of the book, a significant number are mailed to inmates behind prison walls.
Fortunately, the mass majority
of readers of Willie Lynch read the book before the application of the
teachings land them in the Criminal Justice in the
The knowledge they find was in
books written by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Na’im Akbar, Francis Cress
Welsing, Amos N. Wilson, Mr. Carol Barnes, Sister Shahrazad Ali, H. Khalif
Khalifah, and dozens of others, many invariably referenced “Mis-Education of the
Negro, and/or Willie Lynch Letters. The rest is history in the making.
The referenced generation of readers
are young fathers and mothers who were educated in mis-educational systems
devised by the ‘children’ of the students (white chattel slave owners) of Willie
Lynch. According to Black Icon, Carter G. Woodson, “when you control a man’s
mind, you don’t have to build a back door. If he doesn’t find one, he will bill
it himself.” Other Black readers who made the Willie Lynch Letters and The
Mis-Education of the Negro “best sellers” are college professors who read,
and UNDERSTAND their significance; from the understanding they got the WISDOM to
require and recommend books that must be read by their students. The book orders
at the beginning of college semesters confirm there is a groundswell to include
the Mis-Education of the Negro as the first requirement.
TREATMENT FOR
POST TRAUMATIC SLAVERY DISORDER
Both books gives explicit information about the reasons for the self hatred and disunity of Black people - and other negative character traits, that is clear evidence that the Black Race in the recovery stage of “PTSD (Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder.” The Authors of a book with that title: Dr. Reid, Mim, and Sekou use the texts heavily to make their case for PTSD as a treatable disease.
“The Mis-Education of the Negro” was first reprinted by United Brothers Communications Systems in 1992. It is presently the ONLY version that is still in print. UBUS recently printed a new edition of the standard bearing “Willie Lynch Letters and the Making of a Slave.” Their edition features a new Preface by Khalifah, a laminated cover and perfect binding. A gorgeous wrapping for a poison message to is still used to subjugate Black people.
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DECEMBER FAST DECLARED BY
THE HONORABLE
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD
by H. Khalif Khalifah
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12/1/07
This is to say to all within my reach that I still observe the fast that was
declared by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I have observed the month of December
to varying degrees of success for 33 years. I always attempt to participate in
it 100% through my every word, act and deed. And though this is an
impossibility, the striving have help keep me as close to the straight and
narrow path that I am. I have been abundantly blessed by Allah when I forget, go
into error or make a mistake. And I have concluded that the grea-test blessing
of all is that I turn to The Creator, Sustainer and Cherisher of all persons,
places and things for help. So after 33 years of striv-ing, I believe I am in
the position in life that I have the best chance of being 100% dutiful dur-ing
this month I pray for success for everyone who is participating, ob-serving or
sensitive to Black Muslims during this time. Ultimately, I fast for the
power to be a better servant to African people, as we continue to struggle for
“Freedom, Justice and Equality”………..Peace, Khalifah, December 1, 2007
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