Black Man's Burden Imperialism

In “The Black Man’s Burden” by H. T. Johnson,H.T Johnson and African American Clergyman responds to Rudyard Kipling's “A White Man’s Burden” by contrasting the “hardships” one has as a white man vs. a black man. In Johnson’s the poetic response, he alludes to certain burdens of the black man such as slavery and imperialism.Additionally, H.T Johnson mentions different events in history where the “white man” ha burden or troubled the “Brown man”.As a result, of response to Rudyard Kipling's “A White Man’s Burden” H.T Johnson uses Allusion, the theme of Imperialism and irony to express to the reader, of what a “Black Man’s Burden” truly is. Amidst the poem “The Black Man’s Burden” author H.T Johnson states such phrases like “Hail ye your fearless …show more content…
Imperialism is the domination by country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region.Before the enslavements of Africans in America,European settlers came to present day America taking land away from the natives and as well as enslaving them. However, because of the natives high susceptibility to diseases they quickly died off, burned alive and were seen as unfit for enslavement.remaining native americans were forced off their land and forced to adapt to the modern European way of living adoption cloths, language and religion. Furthermore, the land that was stolen from Native Americans were made into plantations where African slaves were forced to pick cotton and live on.For this reason.,as H.T Johnson said “ You’ve sealed the Red Man’s problem” because of the surplus population of people that now inhabited America, Native Americans, would be unable to take back there land and were forced off their land and forced to adapt to the modern European way of living adopting the “white man's” clothes, language and religion. Nonetheless, H.T Johnson does introduce a way of escape for the black man from his