Invisible Man W. E. B Dubois Analysis

16 The dream of escaping reality of the white man 's world and living in a society most comfortable for his or her is a scuffle. A scuffle mainly because he or she has different factors in life that is already preserved by another superior group of people. The color of your skin, your intelligence are judged by the people around you which however has a factor to whom you admire. In Ellison 's “Invisible Man”, the narrator strives to face his reality through his admiration of Booker T Washington because of his education and expansion of racial issues, however some African American leaders view Mr. Washington as cowardly and impractical because he does not fight for equality and black unification The narrator 's admiration …show more content…
W.E.B Du Bois believed that Mr. Washington 's approach for the black community is profoundly asinine on a black man adjustment and submission. As W.E.B Du Bois addresses in his letter “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” that Mr. Washington ideas does not age for economic development and more specifically sets the black race accepting inferiority. W.E.B Du Bois states “Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up to concentrate all their energies on industrial education, the accumulation of wealth and the conciliation of South”. These things were widely impossible because blacks had no rights to defend themselves from suffrage, self respect was neither given to a race that was inferior and was looked down upon and most importantly the cultural training within whites would only let the white race become more powerful than it already is. There was no way the North and South can find similarities and work together, Mr Washington ideas overall will cause a disaster to the children, the black and the …show more content…
John Hope rebuta on Booker T Washington ideas does not fight for equality. It fights for integration with the white man and the black man which is simply not equality. John Hope strives mainly for equality which he believes the idea that money, education and honestly does not bring any privilege as much equality will bring. John Hope states in his Reply To Booker T Washington, “If we cannot do what other freeman do, then we are not free.” John Hope personally feels that Booker T Washington ideas are cowardly because there is no social equality in which booms the blacks to be as equal as to the white man. John Hope believes mainly in black dominance where the blacks should fight to end prejudice, and with the fight for equality there will be a unified republic. A republic of equality will now be something that we are living