Unwanted community interaction
W.E.B DuBois’ “Souls of black folk” illustrates the African-American struggle to be engaged citizens while facing the challenges of the time they were living in. DuBois wrote this in 1903 when integration was happening all around which lead to segregation and more racial tensions. This caused the african-american population to adapt to a new way of life, pretending to be one way while really being another. As for today much of this racial tension has dissipated, and the african-american people have more of a say in their communities. While we have come a long way there is still a long ways to go and much of DuBois’ writing is relevant to this day. In this time period colored folk were essentially …show more content…
African-american are now more involved in the community because there is less and less reason to fear involvement. We as a country have more or less accepted them into our life’s, an amazing example is the fact that we have had an african-american president for the last eight years. This isn’t to say there hasn’t been setbacks “The white man, as well as the Negro, is bound and barred by the color line… sympathy and generous fellowship between the two has dropped still-born because some busybody has forced the color-question to the front and brought the tremendous force of unwritten law against the innovators.”(DuBois). Along this road to inalienable equality between skin tones there have been many bumps, including uncalled for killings, various hate crimes, and in some most cases just blatant discrimination. We still have a long way to go before the african-american people can engage in the community without there being and lashback from white people, but compared to things in the early 1900’s we have made great …show more content…
They lived in fear everyday of what the white man would do to them if they dared to speak up for what they believed in. Changing the way they lived day to day life to appease the white people and their views on colored people as a whole. Even today some white people have issue with african-american people interacting and participating in national issues. No matter what is placed in their way of being an engaged citizen they have shown great power in overcoming it. Proving that skin tone has nothing to do with a person 's ability to care about their community and its issues and take part in all discussions concerning them. Being and engaged citizen is a right every person should have and DuBois proves this with “Souls of black
W.E.B DuBois’ “Souls of black folk” illustrates the African-American struggle to be engaged citizens while facing the challenges of the time they were living in. DuBois wrote this in 1903 when integration was happening all around which lead to segregation and more racial tensions. This caused the african-american population to adapt to a new way of life, pretending to be one way while really being another. As for today much of this racial tension has dissipated, and the african-american people have more of a say in their communities. While we have come a long way there is still a long ways to go and much of DuBois’ writing is relevant to this day. In this time period colored folk were essentially …show more content…
African-american are now more involved in the community because there is less and less reason to fear involvement. We as a country have more or less accepted them into our life’s, an amazing example is the fact that we have had an african-american president for the last eight years. This isn’t to say there hasn’t been setbacks “The white man, as well as the Negro, is bound and barred by the color line… sympathy and generous fellowship between the two has dropped still-born because some busybody has forced the color-question to the front and brought the tremendous force of unwritten law against the innovators.”(DuBois). Along this road to inalienable equality between skin tones there have been many bumps, including uncalled for killings, various hate crimes, and in some most cases just blatant discrimination. We still have a long way to go before the african-american people can engage in the community without there being and lashback from white people, but compared to things in the early 1900’s we have made great …show more content…
They lived in fear everyday of what the white man would do to them if they dared to speak up for what they believed in. Changing the way they lived day to day life to appease the white people and their views on colored people as a whole. Even today some white people have issue with african-american people interacting and participating in national issues. No matter what is placed in their way of being an engaged citizen they have shown great power in overcoming it. Proving that skin tone has nothing to do with a person 's ability to care about their community and its issues and take part in all discussions concerning them. Being and engaged citizen is a right every person should have and DuBois proves this with “Souls of black