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==In support of the Burmese protesters==

The New York Burden
''With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, by Richard Rabinowitz''

This poem is based on the controversial White Man’s Burden, a pro-imperial rant that some might see as racist. I am not a racist. I chose to amend this poem because I support New York City and what it stands for, a multicultural city which has institutions helping people around the globe. Furthermore, I am upset that certain dictatorships are being allowed to run reckless and trample human rights over some bigger countries’ need for money. While money is, indeed, one of the things NYC stands for, I feel that economies have more to gain from prosperity among the people than from incompetence among a cabal of generals, which is what I mean by “warrior peoples” (yeah, that and certain folks out in Pakistan and Afghanistan, who are too well known to have their names repeated here). 

Take up the New York burden--</br>
Send forth the best ye breed--</br>
Encourage your kids far away</br>
To serve other folks’ need;</br>
To wait in mighty patience,</br>
On dictator folk and wild--</br>
Your new-found, warrior people,</br>
Half-devil and half-child.</br>

Take up the New York burden--</br>
In calmness to abide,</br>
To parry the threat of terror</br>
And check the show of pride;</br>
By freedom speech and mercy,</br>
An hundred times made plain</br>
To seek another's profit,</br>
And work another's gain.</br>

Take up the New York burden--</br>
The savage wars of peace--</br>
Fill full the mouth of Famine</br>
And bid the sickness cease;</br>
And when your goal is nearest</br>
The end for others sought,</br>
Watch war and corrupt Folly</br>
Bring all your hopes to nought.</br>

Take up the New York burden--</br>
No gilded rule of kings,</br>
But toil of serf and builder --</br>
The tale of humble things.</br>
The seaports ye shall enter,</br>
The railroads ye shall tread,</br>
Expand them with your living,</br>
And mark them with your dead.</br>

Take up the New York burden--</br>
And reap its old reward:</br>
The blame of those ye care for,</br>
The hate of those ye guard--</br>
The cry of hosts ye humor</br>
Bit by bit toward the light:--</br>
"Why brought they us from bondage,</br>
Our loved Egyptian night?"</br>

Take up the New York burden--</br>
Ye dare not stoop to less--</br>
Nor just call softly on Freedom</br>
To hide your weariness;</br>
By all ye cry or whisper,</br>
By all ye leave or do,</br>
The world’s other peoples</br>
Shall weigh your gods and you.</br>

Take up the New York burden--</br>
Have done with childish days--</br>
Just another golden wonder</br>
Sitting easy by the bays.</br>
Comes now, to your adulthood</br>
Through all the hardy years</br>
Earn bravely the dear-bought wisdom,</br>
The judgment of your peers!</br>⏎
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