Ibram X. Kendi Quote
ON JUNE 25, 1890, W. E. B. Du Bois spoke at his Harvard graduation ceremony. He had now excelled, and had graduated from the most prestigious historically Black college and the most prestigious historically White college in the United States. He felt he was showing off the capability of his race. Du Bois’s brilliant and eloquent address, as judged by the reporters, was on Jefferson Davis as Representative of Civilization. In Du Bois’s rendering, Jefferson Davis, who had died the year before, represented the rugged individualism and domineering European civilization, in contrast to the rugged submission and selflessness of African civilization. The European met civilization and crushed it, Du Bois concluded. The Negro met civilization and was crushed by it. According to Du Bois’s biographer, the Harvard graduate contrasted the civilized European Strong Man to the civilized African Submissive Man.5
ON JUNE 25, 1890, W. E. B. Du Bois spoke at his Harvard graduation ceremony. He had now excelled, and had graduated from the most prestigious historically Black college and the most prestigious historically White college in the United States. He felt he was showing off the capability of his race. Du Bois’s brilliant and eloquent address, as judged by the reporters, was on Jefferson Davis as Representative of Civilization. In Du Bois’s rendering, Jefferson Davis, who had died the year before, represented the rugged individualism and domineering European civilization, in contrast to the rugged submission and selflessness of African civilization. The European met civilization and crushed it, Du Bois concluded. The Negro met civilization and was crushed by it. According to Du Bois’s biographer, the Harvard graduate contrasted the civilized European Strong Man to the civilized African Submissive Man.5
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