“The White Man’s Burden”: Kipling’s Hymn to U.S. Imperialism

George Mason University ^ | 02/01/1899 | Rudyard Kipling

[Phsstpok]

The irish were never slaves, once again you ignorance abounds, neither were the Hindus or muslims but don't let facts get in the way.

don't try to tell that to an Irishman, a Hindu or a Muslim who suffered under the heel of "their betters" in the colonial era. I think they might just show you that there is no difference between someone bought and sold in an official slave market and the way the British treated their subjects in those places. A Zulu wouldn't bother explaining it to you. He'd just kill you where you stood for your ignorance.

well we never had it! (slavery)

Flat out bald faced lie. Learn your own nations history before you open your trap, you ignorant twit.

Nor have we ever asked our own citizens to sit at the back of the bus because of their colour.

Ghandi was a citizen of the British empire, admitted to practice law in England. He was living under British law in South Africa when he was beaten and thrown off of a moving train for having dared to sit in a whites only section. You cannot make stupid claims that something never happened to your citizens when your laws subjected MILLIONS to far more brutal humiliation than any atrocity ever by the worst of the Klan. The KKK learned their tactics from the British army and how it treated "British citizens" of color in the empire.

Good luck my friend, our correspondance is now at an end!

Thank you

don't go away mad, little buddy, just go away.

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