In the passage The Souls of Black Folk the writer makes many points and reasons on why the black folks should be treated better. W.E.B. Du Bois starts off with singing a song to the reader to set the stage for the reader. The song takes the reader back to the time period when this book was written. But Du Bois describes how the Black feel about this inequality to capture his audience's emotions to make his point. Overall this passage is quite dry and is really hard to keep reading to get the main purpose. Du Bois tries to announce to the people by telling how the black folks feel from this inequality. The author says, “After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton, and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with
