Originally Posted by
Tranquillus in Exile
Then why did people think it was okay to enslave blacks but not whites?
Many of the things you are complaining about could be considered a possible overreaction to centuries of RACIST oppression.
To Tranquillus in Exile: See this thread for a more detailed analysis of slavery and the word racism. They are completely different topics:
Finally, slavery is not racism. Slavery was about cheap labor. (Nothing is cheaper that forced labor.) At one time or another members of every race were slaves as well as slave owners. Communist governments still enslave irrespective of race.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...36#post2758136
Originally Posted by
The Anonymous
Just read the Old Testament. Plenty of commentary about race.
To The Anonymous: I do not read Bibles, nor do I debate them. I will gladly discuss any Bible quotation that cites racism rather than race.
Originally Posted by
Jack
To Jack: Interesting link.
John Bull (Great Britain) and Uncle Sam (U.S.) bear "The White Man's Burden" (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling), by delivering the coloured peoples of the world to civilization. (Judge magazine, 1 April 1899)
White do-gooders and busybodies have been “saving” Africa for centuries and it only gets darker on the Dark Continent. Communists in this country continue to stoke the hatred and anger that began in Nazi Germany. Fascism is a catchall word that includes Invented-racism. Nothing invokes the charge of FASCIST more than giving race hustlers an opportunity to accuse someone of being a racist.
More to the point, American Democrats believe that Africa’s ills can only be cured by black race hustlers controlling white Americans, and by extension controlling white Europeans by erasing every national border. Basically, angry blacks everywhere are retaliating against every centuries-old slight, real or imagined. Note that people of mixed race are the most virulent haters even though half of their ancestors had nothing to with the slighting.
Their anger is rooted in the bromide that says non-white races are the white man’s burden.
Admittedly, there are different interpretations of Rudyard Kipling’s poem The White Man's Burden addressed in your link. In today’s interpretation angry blacks intend to make the white race pay through the nose for simply treating non-whites as a burden in the first place. (A white supremacist would accuse them of biting the hand that feeds them.)
Parenthetically, the invention of racism in the 20th century put teeth in the self-serving grievances of every race-hustler.
Alas, white race hustlers in the Democrat Party cannot possibly have the same intense fire in their bellies that burns in black Americans. Black politicians are doubly-dangerous, not because they are morally superior as they claim, but because they are the most cunning bunch of hate-filled politicians to ever acquire political power.
The White Man's Burden: civilising the unwilling savage. (Detroit Journal, 1898)
Finally, Rudyard Kipling poem was written as a response to the American takeover of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War ended. The world be a lot happier had non-whites remained uncivilized:
The White Man's Burden by:
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 mark 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 he 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!
p.s. The Phillippines got their independence without firing a shot. A whole lot of shots are being fired by Muslims in the Philippines today.
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