Not only is Georgia thus the geographical focus of our Negro population, but in many other respects, both now and yesterday, the Negro problems have seemed to be centered in this State.
Du Bois asserts that Georgia serves as a central location for understanding the complexities and historical development of the "Negro problem" in America.
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With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why…
This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.
He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.