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Hibah Alharbi

EDB 604

February 3, 2016

FEI Paper 2

1) What does the words “Color Line” means? According to the souls of Black Folks, the term means the different races of the world. Specifically, the “color lines” are generally two, the whites and the blacks. Who is Du Bois? Du Bois is an author of the book The Soul of Black folks, and he is an African American. Through his experience, we can understand the social inequality that exists between the whites and the African Americans. When did the Civil War happen? The civil war is a central event in the history of America. The event took place between 1861 – 1865, and it significantly determined the United States. The civil war was started so that it can solve the uncompromising differences between the free and the slaves. It required the government to quit slavery. What is a slave? A slave is a person who is a legal property of another person. The slaves are often controlled where they live and what they work.

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I agree with the experience that Bois underwent and how in today’s world, the American people are materialistic. The people are single-minded and there major purpose of life is to gain wealth. Moreover, education should be the primary weapon in fighting the oppression that the people are undergoing. The African Americans should not only be taught how to earn money but also how to balance between the lower training standards and the human culture norms and the lofty ideals of life. In the colleges that the African Americans attend, they should be trained the Talented Tenth, so that it can make a contribution to lower education.

The Souls of Black Folk explains the story of entering the Nashville University in Tennessee. After experiencing the cruelty of the world, Bois advance from elementary school to higher education. However, he travels through the south before he leaves. He realized that the Jim Crow railway cars segregate black and white passengers both physically and socially. The slavery continues, but instead of the plantation, it is practiced in the tenant farming.

Bois brings about what we inherited from our father and great reveals faith as a communal heritage. The faith of Bois is tested when he lose his only child, a boy named Burghardt. The reason behind his death is that he was refused medical care simply because he was black. In the book, an African American leader rises, a friend of Bois who is just an ordinary person doing extraordinary things. The hero was the key to ending the color line.

DuBois further analyzed the economic conditions of African American. I agree with the solution that he comes up with of getting rid of poverty. A higher education is the only way of escaping from poverty. The reason the African Americans were deep in poverty with low living standards was because of still depending on sharecropping and tenant farming. Therefore, for them to achieve a better life and their offspring, they have to attain the most education as possible. As long as the African Americans can afford to pay for their studies, they should proceed with education as much as they can. The talented tenth wanted the whites and the blacks to have the same education.

I also agree on the lack of political power that the African Americans lacked. A political power means that they would have a voice, which will eventually have a positive impact on the social and economic problems that they were facing. The 15th amendment saw this wish coming true since the African Americans could vote.

A person will be living comfortably in a country if there is social equality. DuBois was right when he stated that America would be a great nation if there is social justice. Fusing two cultures would bring about a better culture rather than segregation. Dubois was against the saying that stated “separate but equal” because he believed that the whites and the blacks were not equal. The Rosa Parks incident of boycotting the bus system inspired African American and, as a result saw the civil right movement act being passed in 1964.

3) DuBois influenced and empowered the African American in creating their ideas. He was afraid of the fact that African Americans would always be a step behind the whites and, therefore, wanted the blacks to have a voice to fight the segregation. According to Dubois, unity was a great weapon against the inequality in America. He states that the African Americans should be leaders in portraying honesty and shrewdness. To achieve this, the blacks were supposed to stand up the white man.

The Negro Movement platform was the solution to unity. The movement gained popularity in the Harlem Renaissance. He states that the African Americans should be more outspoken and refuse to abide by the harsh laws of Jim Crow.