W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 47 views
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tthomasuscu on 29 Sep 14It is interesting that DuBois summarizes for this audience/
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To gain the sympathy and cooperation of the various elements comprising the white South was Mr. Washington’s first task
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Next to this achievement comes Mr. Washington’s work in gaining place and consideration in the North
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it is easier to do ill than well in the world.
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In the South especially has he had to walk
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This can relate to the text, Kindred- Dana has to always watch herself and not say something she isn't supposed to say, and to avoid the harsh judgments of Weylin and Rufus.
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warily to avoid the harshest judgments
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In answer to this, it has been claimed that the Negro can survive only through submission. Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three things, —
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I find this article interesting- two African Americans almost working against each other. Both have different approaches to reach freedom.
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This time period put material things ahead of fellow human beings simply because of race.
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When sticks and stones and beasts form the sole environment of a people, their attitude is largely one of determined opposition to and conquest of natural forces.
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But, nevertheless, they insist that the way to truth and right lies in straightforward honesty, not in indiscriminate flattery; in praising those of the South who do well and criticising uncompromisingly those who do ill; in taking advantage of the opportunities at hand and urging their fellows to do the same, but at the same time in remembering that only a firm adherence to their higher ideals and aspirations will ever keep those ideals within the realm of possibility.
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Two groups believe in the same thing- freedom. But they both have different ways of demanding it.
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But the hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.
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This is true. If we don't critique, most people will keep quiet and those who think they know will give out too much.
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The question then comes: Is it possible, and probable, that nine millions of men can make effective progress in economic lines if they are deprived of political rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only the most meagre chance for developing their exceptional men?
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To-day even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all cases the same; the ignorant Southerner hates the Negro, the workingmen fear his competition, the money-makers wish to use him as a laborer, some of the educated see a menace in his upward development, while others—usually the sons of the masters—wish to help him to rise.
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This sort of sounds like in the present today. Apparently ignorant Southerners hate Negros, fears competition. This is all now happening even though not all of us see it
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Some people believe if anyone does not look, talk, or even think like they do, then they should not be equal to them. It's harsh but some people's minds cannot be changed
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This is a very insightful quote. I think he is saying they can be separate but equal.
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one of the most notable figures in a nation of seventy millions
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Booker T. Washington's speech made him very famous. He is one of the most notable out of seventy million.
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Among his own people, however, Mr. Washington has encountered the strongest and most lasting opposition, amounting at times to bitterness, and even to-day continuing strong and insistent even though largely silenced in outward expression by the public opinion of the nation.
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The strongest opposition from Mr. Washington has come from his own people. I wonder why that is?
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“In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”
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This quote is very true. I love the way that it's worded, in terms of people coming together as a whole. That was very clever.
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Among his own people, however, Mr. Washington has encountered the strongest and most lasting opposition, amounting at times to bitterness, and even to-day continuing strong and insistent even though largely silenced in outward expression by the public opinion of the nation
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To have been able to dine with President Roosevelt is an amazing accomplishment and an honor, especially since Washington was a black man.
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I wonder why they envied him and tried to bring him down instead of trying to be like him. His own accomplishments should have motivated them.
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In the history of nearly all other races and peoples the doctrine preached at such crises has been that manly self-respect is worth more than lands and houses, and that a people who voluntarily surrender such respect, or cease striving for it, are not worth civilizing.
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"Self-respect is work more than lands and houses" This quote really sticks out to me. It goes along with my This I believe paper.
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Whites and blacks were at a stead-hold of integration. Many whites didn't accept the fact that society was changing no matter what they thought about it. All men are created equal.
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The "Atlanta Compromise" in my opinion, was the turning point for the acceptance of integration. Whites were faced with a situation where there was no option but to end slavery and treat the blacks as they would want to be treated. However, the world isn't perfect and racism continued and is still present today.
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he spiritual sons of the Abolitionists have not been prepared to acknowledge that the schools founded before Tuskegee, by men of broad ideals and self-sacrificing spirit, were wholly failures or worthy of ridicule.
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Many said that Mr. Washington was uneducated. However, he was very intelligent in the civil rights movement. How can a man of barely any education be so popular and strong willed? Tuskegee, is this the first school to become integrated?
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Then came the Revolution of 1876, the suppression of the Negro votes, the changing and shifting of ideals, and the seeking of new lights in the great night.
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Blacks were now faced with the right to vote! This was a right that Price fought for in his time. Now that blacks were privileged to vote, every man had the same rights.
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I am sure that some blacks were afraid to vote because they were so used to not being able to say what they thought wihtout being criticized verbally and even physically
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This list of importance seems odd to me. You would think education would not be last. Especially since education was seen as the key to freedom during slavery. Now that blacks are free it has dropped importance.
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but as Mr. Washington knew the heart of the South from birth and training,
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he learn the speech and thought of triumphant commercialism, and the ideals of material prosperity that the picture of a lone black boy poring over a French grammar
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His programme of industrial education, conciliation of the South, and submission and silence as to civil and political rights, was not wholly original; the Free Negroes from 1830 up to wartime had striven to build industrial schools, and t
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Booker T. Washington was trying to start an education system and build schools
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indissolubly
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When I came across this word, it confused me. I will have to look up the definition in order to understand the sentence.
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So Mr. Washington’s cult has gained unquestioning followers, his work has wonderfully prospered, his friends are legion, and his enemies are confounded. To-day he stands as the one recognized spokesman of his ten million
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Question: Why is the author giving Washington so much credit and complimenting him?
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demagogues
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Had to look up this word- According to Dictionary.com: "A person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people."
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it startled and won the
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it silenced if it did not
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Mr. Washington’s cult has gained unquestioning followers
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DuBois' wording reinforces that he does not support Washington's ideas. The speech seems negative: instead of 'movement' he uses cult and instead of 'devoted' he says unquestioning. -Aieshah Thomas
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Discriminating and broad-minded criticism is what the South needs, — needs it for the sake of her own white sons and daughters, and for the insurance of robust, healthy mental and moral development
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In this entire paragraph W.E.B. DuBois explains that we shouldn't fault the current generation for the past, but the rest of the nation needs to judge the South to insure we move forward for their children so they don't grow up in hate. -Aieshah Thomas
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Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, North or South, does not rightly value the privilege and duty of voting, belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambition of our brighter minds
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I think DuBois respects Washington for trying to be proactive and receive help from the whites, but DuBois thinks there will be no change (higher education and economic partcipation) by black men being idle. -Aieshah Thomas
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a veritable Way of Life.
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rich and dominating North, however, was not only weary of the race problem, hut was investing largely in Southern enterprises, and welcomed any method of peaceful cooperation
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We know that the North was always more lenient when it came to 'the race problem' but did they actually care about Douglas message? -Aieshah Thomas
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To gain the sympathy and cooperation of the various elements comprising the white South
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Negro advocating such a programme after
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Some of this opposition is, of course, mere envy
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Even though he was envied by many people, he still managed to push towards his goals... Determination.
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