For white leftists, Black Lives Matter is the new ‘white man’s burden’

June 21, 2020 By Andrea Widburg

In 1899, Rudyard Kipling, the quintessential white colonialist, wrote a poem (or more accurately, a polemic) entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands.” In it, he exhorted Americans to take up the white man’s burden to help lead the primitive people of the Philippines into the light. It won’t be fun, and the “natives” won’t be grateful, but it’s the morally right thing to do, intones Kipling in high flown language.

Modern white leftists are proving to be colonialists of a different sort because they’re taking up the new white man’s burden: They are the new soldiers of the Black Lives Movement. They enthusiastically carry signs and walk in marches to save blacks from the systemic oppression visited upon them by all those “other” whites, the ones whom Susan Rice, currently in the running to be Bide’s Veep and now echoing Trotsky, would consign to the “trash heap of history”

Jamelle Bouie, a New York Times writer, may be starting to realize that Black Lives Matter, by operating within a Marxist framework, is catnip for white leftists trained in America’s Marxist colleges and universities. Their enthusiastic support for the movement is overwhelming actual black participants.

Bouie, therefore, has done what all leftists do when faced with a problem: He’s reached back to rewrite history. His thesis is that blacks were entirely responsible for their emancipation from slavery in America. He uses as his springboard the Juneteenth celebration, which remembers the date on which a Republican general told Texas slaves that a Republican president had freed them three years earlier.................To Read More