A comparison and contrast of Du Bois’s and M.L. King’s ideas in relation to African-Americans in the USA
A comparison and contrast of Du Bois’s and M.L. King’s ideas in relation to African-Americans in the USA
There are some contradictions between Du Bois’s and M.L. King’s ideas in relation to African-Americans in the USA. Both M.L. King and Du Bois are antagonistic towards a segregation of black and white people, slavery, poverty, and humiliation of Negroes. However, M.L. King calls on people for nonviolent direct action that would create a tension, not physically but in people’s minds, in order to emancipation. By contrast, in Du Bois’s ideas there is a promotion of the unifying ideal of race, stick together in any case as the ideal of human brotherhood, doing everything cooperatively even violently or nonviolently. This essay will firstly consider and analyze both Du Bois’s and M.L. King’s perspectives on this issue. Their views about African-Americans in the USA will be compared and contrasted based on a recognition of segregation among black people, their attempts on negotiation with the society of white people, the idea of unification of all black people in order to self-purification, and finally their reactions whether to make justice and emancipation of Negroes or their calm humility in regard to slavery, contempt, poverty and humiliation of bastardy. I will argue that the double-consciousness is a result of segregation and it should be removed; that dialog (negotiation) is the best available option to resolve all disputes in a democratic dispensation without using any violence; a self-purification of injustice should be existed and society should react to inequity first nonviolently, if possible.
According to Du Bois, black people for a long period of time saw themselves as pariah, who should be removed from society, and as born with a veil among white people. Black people, by promoting true self-consciousness, tried to live in cooperation with white people’s society, both culturally and economically (Du Bois, 293). They, dark skinned people, claimed that
There are some contradictions between Du Bois’s and M.L. King’s ideas in relation to African-Americans in the USA. Both M.L. King and Du Bois are antagonistic towards a segregation of black and white people, slavery, poverty, and humiliation of Negroes. However, M.L. King calls on people for nonviolent direct action that would create a tension, not physically but in people’s minds, in order to emancipation. By contrast, in Du Bois’s ideas there is a promotion of the unifying ideal of race, stick together in any case as the ideal of human brotherhood, doing everything cooperatively even violently or nonviolently. This essay will firstly consider and analyze both Du Bois’s and M.L. King’s perspectives on this issue. Their views about African-Americans in the USA will be compared and contrasted based on a recognition of segregation among black people, their attempts on negotiation with the society of white people, the idea of unification of all black people in order to self-purification, and finally their reactions whether to make justice and emancipation of Negroes or their calm humility in regard to slavery, contempt, poverty and humiliation of bastardy. I will argue that the double-consciousness is a result of segregation and it should be removed; that dialog (negotiation) is the best available option to resolve all disputes in a democratic dispensation without using any violence; a self-purification of injustice should be existed and society should react to inequity first nonviolently, if possible.
According to Du Bois, black people for a long period of time saw themselves as pariah, who should be removed from society, and as born with a veil among white people. Black people, by promoting true self-consciousness, tried to live in cooperation with white people’s society, both culturally and economically (Du Bois, 293). They, dark skinned people, claimed that