Still trying to figure out how If is rascist
Maya "Aunt Jemima" Angelou's real name is Marguerite Annie Johnson.
Louis "Louie X" Farrakhan's real name is Louis Eugene Walcott.
Both of them are a couple phonies and fakers from way back. The people who slobber over "Maya's" dross are really commenting on their own vapidity.
It is unethical to rewrite Kipling or other authors unable to defend their works.
Kipling is one of my favorites. As a novelist, not so much. But as a poet, he ranks with the best.
This kipling piece is still valid
“Now it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Arian Brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Arian smiles, and it weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitath drear:”A fool lies here who tried to Hustle the East.”
Rudyard Kipling
“The Naulahka”
Trying to impress me with her intellect, she said she was reading something by Dostoevsky. (She pronounced it Das-steves-key though)
I asked her if she liked Kipling.
She replied:
"I don't know; I've never kippled."
if kipling had lived on chicago’s south side —
When you’re wounded and left on englewood’s plains,
And the gangbangers come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll grab your glock and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a white boy.
I prefer Kipling’s best poem:
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
Dane-Geld
A.D. 980-1016
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"
They would freak out if you told them that he wrote “The Jungle Book.”
There’s a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There’s a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun;
And there’s Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
You know, I think Subadar Prag Tewarri and I would get along just fine.
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Love the Kipling ‘rewrite’!
Leave Kipling alone!
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Snowflakes are everywhere.
Yes, thanks for posting :)
Our universities are not interested in turning out men who think, but puppets who obey.
Kipling’s “The Mother Hive” is essential reading for all conservatives.