I assume people know the POINT of that poem, right? It was Kipling recognizing that the era of world wide British Imperialism was about to be supplanted by the US _-
Trading on the fact that he realized the US was racist at its core, he decided to ENTICE the Us to become the senior partner of White European (which of course included white America, white South AFrica and white AUstralia/New Zealand) domination of the colored peoples of the world! President McKinley famously claimed to have asked "God" for guidance as to whether to annex the Phillipines after having defeated Spain -- and God told him the US had to "Christianize" the Filipinos --- (being too dumb to realize the Spanish colonialists had already "Christianized" those "natives") > > > Take up the White Man's burden— > Send forth the best ye breed— > Go bind your sons to exile > To serve your captives' need; > To wait in heavy harness > On fluttered folk and wild— > Your new-caught, sullen peoples, > Half devil and half child. > > Take up the White Man's burden— > In patience to abide, > To veil the threat of terror > And check the show of pride; > By open speech and simple, > An hundred times made plain. > To seek another's profit, > And work another's gain. > > Take up the White Man's burden— > The savage wars of peace— > Fill full the mouth of Famine > And bid the sickness cease; > And when your goal is nearest > The end for others sought, > Watch Sloth and heathen Folly > Bring all your hopes to nought. > > Take up the White Man's burden— > No tawdry rule of kings, > But toil of serf and sweeper— > The tale of common things. > The ports ye shall not enter, > The roads ye shall not tread, > Go make them with your living, > And mark them with your dead! > > Take up the White Man's burden— > And reap his old reward: > The blame of those ye better, > The hate of those ye guard— > The cry of hosts ye humour > (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:— > "Why brought ye us from bondage, > Our loved Egyptian night?" > > Take up the White Man's burden— > Ye dare not stoop to less— > Nor call too loud on Freedom > To cloak your weariness; > By all ye cry or whisper, > By all ye leave or do, > The silent, sullen peoples > Shall weigh your Gods and you. > > Take up the White Man's burden— > Have done with childish days— > The lightly proffered laurel, > The easy, ungrudged praise. > Comes now, to search your manhood > Through all the thankless years, > Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom, > The judgment of your peers![11] > <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden#cite_note-11> > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5243): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5243 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/79501349/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
