End Institutionalized Envy

“I, as with many other whites, would be happy to acknowledge that I have been the beneficiary of some unearned privilege in life, from being raised by good parents to enjoying good health to benefiting from a good education. But whiteness does not happen to be one of my privileges”.  – The Unprotected Class

In a poem by Indian poet Rudyard Kipling in 1899, “The White Man’s Burden”, Kipling called for the civilizing and colonization of indigenous people on the island of the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, believing the superiority of their American white conquerors could make them more refined.