How would it feel to be a problem? Would it be something of humiliation and frustration because even you couldn’t solve it or be depressing that others see you as an issue? W.E.B. Du Bois expressed this idea and many other concepts troubling the Black community in the United States in his book, The Souls of Black Folk. He explains the ideas of double-consciousness, double-aims, being a problem, liberty, and much more. In today’s society, we are more tolerant and are as equivalent to Black people. However, there are some concepts that remain, diminish, and some may have actually begun to repeat in one’s own community.
In Du Bois’s book, the idea of double-consciousness appeals to the black perspective. In the book, he implies that the Negro has a “twoness”, who possess “two souls, two thoughts… two warring ideals in one body”(3, Souls of Black Folk). Today, black people still face this issue. However, it is not of “the other world” and black people, but black people amongst themselves. Nowadays, the …show more content…
He says, “...the journey at least gave leisure for reflection and self-examination… with dawning self-consciousness, self-realization, and self-respect.” In my opinion, the majority of the black community lacks these morals to an extent. The self-realization is lost where exerting the blame to White America or the Republicans and they lack the support needed in order to bring themselves out of poverty and to success. They don’t have self-respect for each other as to blacks are killing each other disproportionately or feel that they can do better and have a luxurious lifestyle. Self-consciousness is lacking where the group makes a choice of what everyone does or says and not what the individual wants. We have deteriorated instead of flourished and in order to be perceived differently, we need to have morals. Because without morals, it’s
In Du Bois’s book, the idea of double-consciousness appeals to the black perspective. In the book, he implies that the Negro has a “twoness”, who possess “two souls, two thoughts… two warring ideals in one body”(3, Souls of Black Folk). Today, black people still face this issue. However, it is not of “the other world” and black people, but black people amongst themselves. Nowadays, the …show more content…
He says, “...the journey at least gave leisure for reflection and self-examination… with dawning self-consciousness, self-realization, and self-respect.” In my opinion, the majority of the black community lacks these morals to an extent. The self-realization is lost where exerting the blame to White America or the Republicans and they lack the support needed in order to bring themselves out of poverty and to success. They don’t have self-respect for each other as to blacks are killing each other disproportionately or feel that they can do better and have a luxurious lifestyle. Self-consciousness is lacking where the group makes a choice of what everyone does or says and not what the individual wants. We have deteriorated instead of flourished and in order to be perceived differently, we need to have morals. Because without morals, it’s