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In short, what is the black man but America's Belgium, and how could America condemn in Germany that which she commits, just as brutally, within her own borders?
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois draws a parallel between the suffering of Black Americans and the plight of Belgium during wartime, highlighting injustice.
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