Booker and Du Bois

Well, when I read Booker T. Washington's story on the Atlanta Exposition I felt that he was trying to bring blacks and whites together as equals. He used the idea of a bucket on a boat to show that all men were created equal. "there is no defense or security for any of us except in the hightest intelligence and development of all. If anywhere there are efforts tending the curtail and fullest growth of the negro, let these efforts be unred into stimulating, encouraging and making him the most useful and intelligent citizen." (762) i think he wants changes to happen but in the future when people realize that skin color shouldnt matter.

When reading Du Bois's I understand when you said it was thick. This part was kinda hard for me to understand and comprehend what he was saying. I defently think that he admired Washington's idea for the blacks. But i think that he thought that Washington didn't think he realized all the hardships that came along with such an idea. "And yet the time is come when one may speak in all sincerity and utter courtesy of the mistakes and shortcomings of Mr. Washingtons career, as well as of triumphs, without being thought captious or envious, and without forgetting that it is easier to do ill then well in the world" (885) Du Bois seems to think that there are many people who congradulated him when he gave his speech but there was still many people who dispised him. He thinks that men should have all equal rights but they can't practice those rights without any background information or proper education on how to excerise these rights.

Not quite sure if this is what you were looking for, but thats my input on the question.