Sunday, January 17, 2010

response to Rudyard Kipling's "White Man's Burden"

I'm an African and i'm telling Rudyard Kipling that something is wrong with you if you think i'll actually like your poem. We are human just like you are, but where are our human rights? My family was already suffering, but we were better off before you marched in. You people are crazy, and you need to open your eyes and start being smart. We have been running around with no shoes and clothes and our family work hard every day for us to get food, i know our lives is a bit suffering, but it was way better before you brought in your dumb ideas. We'll keep on asking Lord to help us, and we know he will. We never asked you to come, and we never needed your help, so go back where you came from, and let us live our life suffering but alteast better then when you are around.

- Jacinta Marie Da Silva Correia 10A

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