Whether legitimate or counterfeit, the Willie Lynch letter included divisive strategies that ensured the disunion of slaves for a lifetime.  It proffered separating slaves by physical attributes and job assignments.  Slaves assigned to house duties and those of lighter hues were encouraged to view themselves as superior to fellow field workers and those of darker hues. The divide and rule maxim attributed to Philip of Macedonia and used by Caesar and Napoleon, was in full effect.  The concept simply breaks up any existing power by preventing smaller powerful groups from networking by causing rivalries and fueling discord among the people.  The strategy weakens and disarms the powerful through internal discord.   It was effective and is still working to divide ddAeas but the day has come for the direct descendants of Africans enslaved in America to, of their own volition, unify under a sole identifier that distinguishes our experience from that of immigrants who share our hue but not our history.