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To: Jack Black
So, more of the "White Man's Burden" eh?

Who the hell told you I was white? Did I say I was white?

98 posted on 07/10/2018 6:32:04 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: stormhill
Who the hell told you I was white? Did I say I was white?

In suggesting that we (the United States) go fix Haiti with moral education you are suggesting that we do the exact same thing that we tried in 1899, with poor results, in the Phillipines. Cuba, Puerto Rico and a few other small possessions. Which is the subject of the poem.

I never said you were white, rather obviously. I said what you were suggesting has been tried, and is summarized by many historians as the "white man's burden", based on Kiplings famous poem.

In the case of Kippling the "white man" wasn't any particular person, it was the nations of Europe which had been trying to civilize non-European peoples for almost 500 years at that point, with pretty miserable results.

He thought it sad that America, which had heretofore avoided Colonialism now felt the need, like the other White nations, to "take on the White Man's burden".. as the poem says.

100 posted on 07/10/2018 6:40:35 PM PDT by Jack Black
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