How great was W E. B dubois

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A few similarities to Cosby, athough, I fear that just like him, black people would have turned on Dubois for talking respectability politics. The current generation of black Americans have an inability of taking criticism when it comes from our own.

As much as I respect Dubois - he was a colorist.

Whether it's something he wanted to do or not -- he understood the dynamics of skintone.

Back then - like right now - lighter and racially ambiguous is the key to success and admiration in our community.

He also knew his complexion and mixed-race ancestry was his strength and big advantage. He also surrounded himself with men and women of the same skin-complexion class.

l think it would be similar to how it is right now.

 

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People really sitting up here and defending fukking Booker T. Washington's compromise...

If any Black so called leader today...

Were to tell you..."Yall need to not fight against the White man, but acquiese and find your place in society amongst them..."

Yall would call that man a c00n...

But now...it's...."We need both..."

Nah fukk outta here....

Booker T. Washington was being funded by Southern Whites and Southern Whites basically wanted slavery with extra steps and Booker T. Washington was willing to give it to them...

And it wasn't for Dubois...we would be sitting around today in some Jim Crow shyt where we can't go no where and or do nothing without checking in with White folks...

So nah....

fukk that...

Politics is about playing favorites....

The Atlanta Compromise was castrophic for Black people and if any Black person today would say some shyt like that...yall would be killing him King fukking c00n.

Dude, it was 1900.

Black folks had to do whatever the fukk they had to do to survive, man.

They were just a few years removed from Reconstruction where White folks had come and raised whole Black towns and neighborhoods.

I can't judge no cat, who's like, "Let's focus on surviving and getting our money up, THEN coming for the whole bag", rather than let's tell the White man who owns and controls everything to go fukk himself, while he's lynching us on a daily basis and we don't have the wealth or might to do anything really about it.

 

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[Starman]

I got a 2 part Nobel Prize winning book on Dubois that I'll never read. Its like 2 phone books. Lol

 

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First page of this thread is jokes.

W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the finest Black intellectuals of the last several centuries.

From his work in the U.S. on Black race relations, to his correcting the record on Black revolt through history, to pioneering sociology and sociological studies, to his bringing the case of Black genocide before the international community - he’s unparalleled.

It’s difficult to encompass just how broad the scope of his work was, and how towering of a figure he was - in just a post.

 

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I got a 2 part Nobel Prize winning book on Dubois that I'll never read. It’s like 2 phone books. Lol

David Levering Lewis’ I presume?

Went through them some years ago, they are VERY lengthy, but also very easy reads - a lot of like Robert Caro’s biography of Lyndon B. Johnson.

 

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As a thinker/writer/theorist he deserves recognition. In a certain way his theories on the talented tenth have grown on me and I believe should be looked at seriously.

But as a man I feel he was a disgrace. His work against Garvey and ultimately the race as a whole strikes him from any serious consideration as a great Black man, in my opinion.

The “talented tenth” argument is a part of his early work, and not his later work.

It’s worth recognizing that he was a writer who lived into his 90s and did not stop producing throughout that time.

What he put in a popular book in his early 30s doesn’t encompass his body of work.

It’s also worth understanding the opposition, the Garvey plan(s), and the later work from both to get a solid gauge on things.