Re: OT:Thanksgiving


Alistair <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 30 Nov, 10:23, docdw...@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

Sadly, I have encountered people in the US, even recently, who
genuinely
believe that Negroes are an inferior species and should be tended like
cattle, as God requires us to take care of them.

I believe Auld Blighty had a tradition of 'The White Man's Burden' for a
few years, as well... some folks cling to Oldene Stylees.


I think that the white man's burden was not a racial statement that
non-whites were inferior and needed to be ruled/enslaved but, rather,
that because the non-whites were incapable of ruling themselves the
white man was burdened with the task himself. It might have helped a
bit if the Brits had done more to educate and empower the local
populations such that they could rule themselves to the standard that
the white man expected and if we had not so desperately tried to hold
on to overseas possessions after WW2.

Mahatma Gandhi is supposed to have said that he never would have dared mount
his passive revolution if the country had been occupied by anyone but the
Brits.




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