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| James Dallas Bowser |
As a follow up to my post,
THE SUNDAY LOOK INTO THE NYT ARCHIVES: "Negro Finds Way to Wealth" By Profiting From Racism, Mises Institute senior fellow David Gordon emails:
Here is some more material on J.D. Bowser. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Dallas_Bowser
From the Wikipedia page:
In 1899, Bowser published a poem which was a response to Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden called Take up the Black Man's Burden, writing, "Take up the Black Man's burden/Send forth the best ye breed,/To judge with righteous judgement/The Black Man's work and need,//...//Let the glory of your people/Be the making of great men,/The lifting of the lowly,/To noble thought and aim." The poem drew connections between racism and imperialism, criticizing both. It also contains a theme of black self-improvement which was advocated by Booker T. Washington.
-RW
--- It also contains a theme of black self-improvement which was advocated by Booker T. Washington.---
ReplyDeleteA lesson that his fellow men and women today should heed rather than share the "blame others" mentality that permeates the thinking among many in the black community and DJT supporters.