The White Man's Burden

“…white people have an obligation to rule over, and encourage the cultural development of people from other ethnic and cultural backgrounds until they can take their place in the world economically and socially.”

Wikipedia (in re: Rudyard Kipling’s poem,“The White Man’s Burden.”)

The El Paso (Texas) “carpetbagger” interpretation of the “White Man’s Burden” is that the minority ethnic and races will NEVER “take their place” in the world economically and socially, but that they are a useful medium to portray in that fallacious role while they advance their own selfish agendas.

El Paso’s, and the liberal establishment’s, reasoning, as a whole, stem from the fact that their “programs” to make all the races equal has ingrained in the minorities a sense of “entitlement;” that they are entitled to positions of wealth and political power whether they have earned it or not. Almost every “equal opportunity” Government program produces that result, regardless of their stated intentions. That is the reason why almost every Anglo and Latino political “leader” in El Paso of the past few years is now either under investigation, already indicted, or in some cases already serving time in a Federal or State prison for corruption.

The hostility with which the Republican victory of Ted Cruz has been met in El Paso demonstrates the arrogance and indignity of the “carpetbagger mentality” of the Anglos in El Paso. In spite of their perennial lip service to the contrary, they never intended that any Hispanic ever become a significant leader in the Democrat Party in Texas. However, El Paso makes a good screen to advance the false image of such an idea. Sure, they’ve had their Hispanic mayors and they even sent a Hispanic to the House of Representatives in Washington. But anyone can be around Silvestre Reyes for less than a minute and determine that he has neither intelligence nor merit. He is just another product of the Government’s recent hysterical effort to elevate Hispanics to falsely-perceived “leadership” positions in the government, and they figured that a place like the Border Patrol would have been innocuous because the Border Patrol itself is a mere façade of an effort to dupe the people into thinking that the Government actually wants to stop illegal immigration. The Border Patrol thereby became a ready-made pool of incompetents that can live in a fantasyland without being hampered by a guilty conscious or a longing to re-join reality. When Reyes joined the Border Patrol, there were minimal education requirements.

That brings us back to the issue of the “white man’s burden.” If there ever was a “burden,” of the white man in El Paso, or even the whole country, it’s real purpose was to bring more poverty-stricken Hispanics under their hegemony, NOT to free them, or to make them equal in any way. El Paso is an exaggerated microsomal manifestation of the school of thought that pervades the liberal, activist hypocrites: they pose as altruists but only have self-serving interests at heart. Their “altruism” toward the Hispanics goes only as far as they think the Hispanics and other minorities can serve their own misguided purposes.

Here are the first two verses of Rudyard Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden:

“Take up the White man's burden --
Send forth the best ye breed --
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild --
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.

“Take up the White Man's burden --
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
An hundred times mad plain.
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain…”

--Rudyard Kipling
February, 1899.