Post 15 I just read this truly for the first time and am letting it sink in! I am literally rotflmbbao....is this the source of the continential divide that exist today in America? WOW, and I thought the Revolutionary War was our nations Orisis and Set, Cain and Abel, Moses and Pharoahs, Romulus and Remus, Trojan War, all other European conflicts- a brothers battle against another brother for power. Is why a certain class look upon themselves as saviors and condemn anyone who doesnt fit their profile. For christ sake, our most notable british american to defend the honor of the colonies in britian was Ben Franklin. when he was done giving his oration on behavee of colonies, Sir Edward Gibbons, author of rise and fall of roman empire, rose and said, piss off you freaking yankee and give me my money. (they were building dams between liverpool and mancester to easiest way ship cotton from the southern colonies and create child labor factories, ie source of child labor laws). at which the revolutionary war officially began. It cant be an ideology from this poem that has many thinking they are divine? I really should not have slept through Coach Drovers history class. Although, I highly doubted he was saying this in these terms. tuned out after african-american history was white washed. The White Mans Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands] Take up the White Mans 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 Mans 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 anothers profit, And work anothers gain. Take up the White Mans 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 Mans 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 mark[14] them with your living, And mark them with your dead. Take up the White Mans 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 he us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night? Take up the White Mans burden, Ye dare not stoop to less-- Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloke 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 Mans burden, Have done with childish days-- The lightly proferred 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!
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 05:58:55 +0000
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