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The “White Man’s Burden” in Toons

I had forgotten that Rudyard Kipling wrote his remarkably racist and smug poem to encourage Americans as they took over my homeland, the Philippines.  The “burden” white men take up is the burden of civilizing the world. “Take up the … Continue reading

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