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How is "The Black Man's Burden" responding to "The White Man's Burden"?

the "The White Man's Burden" was written in responce to america taking over the Phillipines. It the white man's burden in the poem is that they have a responsibility to go help people by colonizing them.  "The Black Man's Burden" argues that colonizing dose not help the people living there and it is not fair to go in and enslave people.

i think that the attitude towards africans in both "The White Man's Burden" and "The heart of darkness" are very similar. in both there is an opinion that the africans are savages that need to be civilized by whites. in the book there is constant reference to africans as savage.