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  1. Jan 2024
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  3. Sep 2020
    1. I can understand DuBois grievances with Booker T. Washington. Washington speaks about how African American men needed to essentially focus on and make the best of manual labor jobs. He seemed to want the focus to be shifted from insisting on rights to establishing personal and familial wealth through quiet hard work. DuBois seemed to characterize this as submissive in nature. He advocated for more insistence on civil rights. He doesn't directly blame Washington for how the black community had integrated into society post slavery, but he does believe his teachings contributed.

  4. Feb 2018
    1. Lo! we are diseased and dying, cried the dark hosts; we cannot write, our voting is vain; what need of education, since we must always cook and serve? And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men?

      Physical death and disease is paralleled to the lack of education, the inability to write and read. The bridled mind and illiteracy having the ability to maim and even kill.

    2. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.

      The Hero's Journey and the arc of isolation/catharsis is present here. In both a literal and metaphorical sense, Du Bois and other "sons of night" get to be the hero, the main character, the protagonist. By becoming the writer, the author, the inscriber, he has given himself a narrative.