Diagnostic

Paul Jairam
ENG 101                                                                                                    

 

       To be an American is a great deal, and to be of another race at the same time is a clashing matter that has its ups and downs. Although I’m not too familiar with this piece of writing, I am familiar with the man himself, W.E.B Du Bois. His strive for the perspective right of being a negro and being American at the same time is a very significant one that has a strong backbone to its meaningful mission. Seeing things from his point of view sheds a little insight on how deep this matter goes. From his end, the situation is of one that heavily complicates a man’s life by just being a negro in the white American eyes.

      Du Bois speaks a strong offense and defense in his perspective of breaking through American society without trying to change it, but only to be accepted and giving the equal right as every human is born with. From my point of view racism is a road that will never end, no matter how much you fight it or try to suppress it. It will always exist and be around every corner and in every seep in the world. Certain races will always have a racial perspective that they are “higher” beings than others, therefore creating racism which becomes exploited and develops into a brutal matter. Du Bois’s idea or better yet his implication of wanting to create a better scene for his people while being stationary in another land is very momentous. Everything I just read seems rather self-reliant about Du Bois, therefore making his cause very effective. Being of another race and living in another country tend to have some counteractions as to some lose their sense of roots of their culture, but Du Bois is a man of word and stature and speaks a mean game in which he states that he will “not bleach his negro soul” for the aspects of “white Americanism”. That right there is very reputable, he may sound ignorant at times but his ignorance is a righteous one that has justifying momentum backing it.