Read the following quote:

"The White Man's Burden," New York Age, T. Thomas Fortune, editor (April 1899) "Nobody has asked the white races to rob and enslave the black and yellow races of the earth. The burden, if such it be, was assumed voluntarily and without the consent and desire of the victims, who preferred and still prefer their land and liberty and freedom from the tyranny of white men. They do not thank them for the assumption of the alleged burden and the alleged sacrifices. From Warren Hastings and Lord Clive in India to Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, the despoiled native has hated his despoiler and groaned under the load of foreign rule and taxation forced upon him."

Question: In your opinion after reading the above quote, what is the true "burden" of colonialism, and who carries it?