The excerpt is from an African American poem called “The Black Man’s Burden.”Pile on the Black Man’s Burden.'Tis nearest at your
door; Why heed long bleeding Cuba, or dark Hawaii’s shore? Hail ye your fearless armies, Which menace feeble folks Who fight with clubs and arrows and broke your rifle’s smoke. –H.T. Johnson, The Black Man’s Burden, 1899 What point of view does the poem’s author express? Cuba and Hawaii could benefit most from imperialism. Imperialist armies are easily repelled by native armies. Imperialism is more about bullying than heroism. African Americans were wrong to fight imperialism.
The point of view expressed by the author is C. Imperialism is more about bullying than heroism.
Explanation:
This poem by Reverend H.T. Johnson was a response to Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands" in which he advocated for the colonization of these Islands. Several poems, like this by H.T. Johnson and even a "Black Man's Burden Association" were created in response to show the mistreatment of Brown people in the Philippines as an extension of the mistreatment of Black people in America and in other colonies demonstrating that imperialism is about bullying and the subjugation of native people.
