Status Updates From The Souls of Black Folk

The freedom that was given after the world wasn’t truly free. Black ppl still didn’t have education, land or money to start them off. And the yt people weren’t going to give them a push to start either. Instead they were told, you aren’t worth shit, you are dangerous and you have no skills because of biology. All lies they told. Black people live under the veil. They can see both sides. But struggle to cross

It’s hard not to read Dubois without intense emotion. His writes in a kind of Shakespearean-like monologue. This book, like “The Souls of Black Folk, is really profound in its prose.