I should be the last one to deny the patent weaknesses and shortcomings of the Negro people; I should be the last to withhold sympathy from the white South in its efforts to solve its intricate social problems.
Du Bois expresses his willingness to acknowledge both the challenges within the Black community and the complexities faced by the white South in addressing social issues.
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The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.
I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.
A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.
Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.