11/21 journal
From the white mans struggle poem, I got the idea that author had the idea that white people had to work really hard to create and maintain the earth, in a way. How white people were above other people but they served other people by making earths better place. This came off as a little shocking because at the time when Britain was colonizing, they treated foreign people as barbarians and referred to them as savages. In the opinion of the British, though, they were working to improve the earth as well as those peoples lives. From the black mans struggle poem, I got the idea that black people were the underdogs at the time with the white people dominating them, and even though they were enslaved in a sense, they still fought for them selves, despite their disadvantages.
I think you have this right. The "White Man's Burden" was a common sentiment among Europeans and was used as a justification for colonialism, due to what they called the "civilizing mission." This is one reason why missionaries were always a big part of colonization.
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