The Infamous "Willie Lynch Letter"
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RC Vivian Jagged Hickman FuUerlove Edge Photography of Workshop NestStage Page 2 Page 4 Page 7 A Division of ^St^ffif^Pppommity News, Inc. Volume XI, Number XXIII " i\ o r i h *n a i L a s^ ' 'W c e A:. / H T a p e r c f C h o i c c " June 6-June 12,2002 SERVING PLANO, DALLAS, RICHARDSON, GARLAND, ALLEN, MCKINNEY AND MESQUITE The Infamous Piano's Douglas Community Council To Hold It's Annual "Willie Lynch Letter" Juneteenth Festival As we prepare lo celebrate anoth er Juneieeth holiday MON-The Area Community Leaders Invited Gazelle's Editorial Staff thought it By: Felicia Coleman the Juneteenth plans along with On the Homefront: vxiuld be a good opportunity to intro On Saturday, June 15, 2002 other topics in the community. spect ourselves and determine if lue arc the Douglas Communit>' Council Juneteenth is an annual The Frisco public library part of the solution or the problems will have it's annual Juneteenth event at the Douglas Center. kicks ofl* its summer within our coinnmnity. A white slave Celebration Reminiscence. With Participation was reduced be reading program, "Read owner, William Lynch in 1712, deliv it's theme Bringing It Back to the cause of the competition in big Across Texas" with a ered this speech. The publication ofihu Church, there will be many ger cities such as Dallas. We are puppet show on Friday, speech is not intended to offend any activities into the night. an older and smaller commimit>' June 7; 8750 McKinney one, but to challenge "the pozoer that The Douglas Community but we are starting early this year Road. The festivities start be" on the validity of the content of Council originated during the and we encourage people to come out. I think it will be nice", at l:30ani with a check this speech. times when the state of Texas Johnson said. presentation from the outlawed the NAACP. Reverend C.S. Trimble set forth to begin South East area MOM Gentlemen, I greet you here The Juneteenth celebration the organization Douglas Com on the bank of the James River in will begin at 10:00 a.m. with a Club of Frisco. munity Council, named after ex- the year of our Lord one thousand parade beginning at William's slave and American abolitionist seven hundred and twelve. First, I High School and will proceed to Fire-rescue camp for Frederick Douglas. shall thank you, the gendemen of Shiloh Missionary Baptist teens at Collin County the Colony of Virginia, for bringing Trimble worked together Church, 920 East I4th Street in presents its annual Fire- me here. I am here to help you with friend Ben Thomas to help, Piano. A spiritual celebration will Rescue Camp. Open to solve some of your problems with improve, teach and assist Black take place at Shiloh Missionar\' teenagers 14-18, the slaves. Your invitation reached me people. One of the first issues Baptist Church. The event will camp will meet from on my modest plantation in the that Trimble and Thomas want continue at Douglas Recreation vs. the light skin slaves vs. ilie dark them witli the natural capacity to S:30am to 4pm Monday West Indies, where I have experi ed to do was to find a way to get Center were there will be a baby skin slaves. You must use the female take care of their needs and the mented with some of the newest Black students into integrated pageant, music, picnic, entertain through Thursday l:pm. vs. the male, and the male, and the needs of their offspring, we break and still the oldest methods for schools. Together, Trimble and ment and games for the kids. Ben 8:30am to 1pm June 7 at male vs. the female. You must also that natiu-al string of independence control of slaves. Ancient Rome Thomas purchased a bus to Thomas said, "ITie purpose of the Central Paiit Campus, have your white servants and over from them and thereby create a would em'T.' us if my program is transport Black children from this event is to bring back to the lire academy building. seers distrust all Blacks, but it is dependency state, so that we may implemented. As our boat sailed their communirj- to integrated church and to reemphasize and Camp fee $150. Call Leslie necessary that your slaves trust and be able to get from them usefiil south on the James River, named schools. encourage our youtli to use the depend on us. They must love, respect, production for our business and Thetford 972-548-6836. for our illustrious King, whose ver opportunities that are for them and trust only us. Gentlemen, these pleasure. Later, Trimble turned the sion uf the Bible we cherish, I saw today as a result of emancipa kits are your key. to control. Use Douglas Communiiy Council Nortel Nctworkii will cut enough to know that your problem tion," "TTie theme. Bringing it them. Have your wives and chil over to Hiomas. Thomas served is not unique. XXTiile Rome used Cardinal Principles For Back to the Church", Thomas another 3,500 jobs and dren use them, never miss an as President until 1983. Thomas cords of wood as crosses for stand Making A Negro said, "the hand of God is work may sell its optical-com opportunity. If used intensely for one said, "We want to take care of ing human bodies along its high For fear that our future gener ing for us. We are his children ponents business as it year, the slaves themselves will remain ourselves and be a factor in the ways in great numbers, you are ations may not understand the and we are free. We want to revamps its operation to perpetually distrustful. Thank you communit>' and be self reliant." here using the tree and the rope on principles of breaking both the return it to the church because save money. gentlemen. Five years ago Vanessa occasion. beast together, the nigger and the there is where it all originated." horse. We understand that short Johnson became the President of Douglas Community Coimcil. For more information call Charley Langley, the pop I caught the whiff of a dead Let's Make A Slave range planning economic results in With 15 members in the council, Vanessa Johnson at 972-390-9175 ular vocalist who went on slave hanging from a tree a couple By: The Black Arcade Liberation periodic economic chaos; so that, they meet every Thursday night or Ben Thomas 972-422-2966. &om his native Piano to miles back. You are not only losing Library 1970 to avoid turmoil in the economy, it at the Douglas Center to discuss headline shows in Denver valuable stock by hangings, you It was the interest and business requires us to have breath and and New York appeared having uprisings, slaves are running of slaveholders to study human depth in long range comprehensive away, your crops are sometimes left recently at the Piano nature, and the slave nature in par planning, articulating both skill if the field too long for maximum sharp perception. Forum and was such a hit ticular, with a view to practical profit, you suffer occasional fires, results, and many of them attained We lay down the following that an entire show as a your animals are killed. Gentlemen, astonishing proficiency in this principles for long range compre henefit for the Piano Metro you know what your problems are; direction.They had to deal not with hensive economic plaiming. 1. Both Willie and Martha Rotary club is being I do not need to elaborate. I am earth wood and stone, but with horse and nigger are no good to the planned aroimd his talent. here to enumerate your problems, I men and by every regard they had economy in the wild or natural am here to introduce you to a for their own safety and prosperity state. 2. Both must be broken and Wattiey 60th Anniversary method of solving them. In my bag AT&T Broadband an they needed to know the material tied together for orderly produc here, I have a fool proof method for Nursery. She is now nounced that basic cable on which they were to work. tion. 3. For orderly futures, special conirolling your black slaves. I retired. Willie Wattiey rates affecting more than and particular attention must be guarantee everyone of you that if Conscious of the injustice and joined the army at 17 years 8,000 Piano customers paid to the female and the youngest installed correctly it will control wrong they were every hour perpet old. He worked at Veterans offspring. 4. Both must be cross will increase to $12.23 slaves for at least 300 years. My uating and knowing what they Hospital for 18 years bred to produce a variety and divi effective July l, 2002. method is simple. Any member of themselves would do, were they the where he became the first sion of labor. 5. Both must be Making that a $.50 cent your family or your overseer can use victims of such wrongs, they were black supervisor. In 1963, taught to respond lo a pecuhar new increase. constantly looking for the first signs he organized the NAACP language. 6. Psychological and it. of the dreaded retribution. They of Collin County. In 1965, T have oudined a number of watched, therefore, with skilled and physical instruction of containment Host families are needed he was an employee of differences among ;he slavgj; and / practiced eyes, and learned to read, must be created for both.