Du Dubois Mission Statement

Du Bois is aware of the fact that the social status of the Negro’s have changed ever since slavery. What Du Bois is actually telling us is that the ideas growing about racial discrimination amongst black people are out of their hands. White people rather treat black people more like objects and to be studied like objects. He argues that the racism of the South must be taken very seriously and not joked about or forgotten, no matter how helpless people may feel. He argues that the only solution that would fix the racism problem would be education and reason that would be questioned by black authors but can also be used to strengthen than to test the waters of racist thoughts. Black people’s purpose and determination need to be taken very seriously.

Du Bois does not accept this concept and believes that intellect, potential and the rights and wrongs are gained through education. Du Bois believed that for most of the time that black people lived within the United States, they were only worth or seen as slave workers who gave service to plantation owners. After the Emancipation, white people and a famous black leader, Booker T. Washington, began to fight for industrial education for black people and training them to be treated as more of valuable workers. The Souls of Black Folk is a mission statement of the new class of educated African Americans. I enjoyed and agreed to how Du Bois was able to completely understand this world that we live in and to keep hold of the love and tenderness for the uneducated people by being a strong example to others who were black and educated of how to handle the “Veil” issue that separates black people and white people. Du Bois used the metaphor, the “Veil” in order to show exactly how to survive all along with knowing this contrast between two worlds. I also love how he was able to

I believe that self-improvement played an important part, but it was also too important that by not striving to not be placed second and being encouraged by the wealthy and knowledgeable group, one cannot wish to be successful. My opinion is that the entire world, not just the United States alone, need to help African-Americans achieve their dreams. It doesn’t matter exactly how hard we work, if the country, the government and the world, for that matter, do not allow for African-Americans to succeed, they absolutely will not succeed. Racism is very important within this chapter. It is hard for African-Americans to have opportunities open up for them of the social placement of the “Negro”. All through slavery, black people were very much considered as property. Black people were moved into positions in society that placed them above animals, but still below white men both