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In reading the passages from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois, I come to see it as two different outlooks from two different individuals. Mr. DuBois was a northern who lived up north and did not experience the inequality and racism that Mr. Washington faced as a individual in the south. That one reason may be why they did not see eye to eye in their ambitions and expectations of blacks in America. Mr. Washington’s arguments about the education of blacks was compromising to a point. Booker wanted the blacks of the south to some together with the whites in a effort to unite the groups and overcome all the problems blacks faced in the south. We needed to cast down our buckets as he would say and ask our friendly white counterparts in the south for assistance and their approval of what we wanted to do. This was a very unique way because by doing so you were not seen as a threat to whites but as a uncle tom figure who was going to bow down to the people who had the power you were trying to obtain. In the bad part about that was you were perceived by your own people as not having a backbone and copping out to the whites to get what you sought as what you needed. Blacks wanted to achieve their own wealth and fame without the help of whites because they were oppressed by whites for so long that when they were not anymore they did not want anything to do with them if they could avoid it. Mr. Washington also had a unique strength in his argument about the education of blacks in doing this, he wanted blacks to have a legitimate education and not some unworthy education just to get them by and to allow them to vote.
Approximate Word count = 1078
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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