One of the main details in DuBois’ argument is that black men are forced to carry the burden of their entire race. What this means is that black men are held accountable for the action of every black man any white person may come into contact with. This struggle of being held accountable for every person of your race divides the black man from his self. Another argument DuBois makes in this section is that the black man is divorced from himself because he attempts to emulate whiteness “. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.” (DuBois). This division between the roots of his ancestry and the Americanization that is forced upon him when he refuses to conform to a standard of
