↑ Pretest: Unit 4
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 brook your rifle's smoke.
-"The Black Man's Burden" by H. T. Johnson
What was most likely the author's motivation for publishing the ideas
expressed in this passage?