On the other hand, the settled belief of the mass of the Negroes that the Southern white people do not have the black man’s best interests at heart has been intensified in later years by this continual daily contact of the better class of blacks with the worst representatives of the white race.
Du Bois analyzes how the daily interactions between different social strata of white and Black people fueled Black distrust of Southern whites.
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