“WITH regard to the inauguration of new institutions, the Negro’s influence will be nil. The inquiry for the reader, then, is not what will the Negro contribute to social progress, but how much burden will be upon the Caucasian in the latter’s struggle to progress. The degree in which the Negro lags behind the Caucasian in creating and applying the material and spiritual agencies of progress will constitute the ‘white man’s burden;’ a burden which is to forever thwart the nation in the attainment of those cultural heights warranted by Caucasian capacity and purpose.”

— Ernest Sevier Cox, White America (1937)

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