Black Americans Black Americans are sometimes referred to as African Americans or Negros (Willis & Krauthamer 2012).. This term typically refers to an American ethnic group with partial or full ancestry of the black racial groups of Africa. The current black Americans are mostly descendants of the enslaved black people and constitute the third largest ethnic group in United States. Slavery of these Africans took place for until after 1865 civil war. Nevertheless, due to the white supremacy notion, the blacks were still treated as second-class citizens. This paper compares and contrasts the perspectives of Booker T. Washington and Dubois on the experience of the black Americans. According to Washington (1895) the exposition has led to the Black Americans being given freedom. They should use their freedom and the rights that they have been given to help cement their relationship with the whites which will help at every stage of America’s progress. This opportunity that they are afforded will awaken a new error of industrial progress thus help eliminate ignorance and inexperience. He also says that the law of changeless justice binds the oppressor and the oppressed so they …show more content…
He feels that blacks are treated like lesser beings by the whites. He explains that at school the children of the white do not want to associate with them and they are shut out by the world from where they belong. He feels contempt that even though they can do better than the whites in other activities the treatment they are given is that of an outcast and strangers in their own land. They feel like they should do something for their country to be recognized but they are not given a chance hence they resort to sycophancy and silent hatred to everything white. They blacks feel the twoness in them an American and a Negro, two souls and unreconciled thoughts that are always