Mind Blowing #blog post 10

When I began doing my research on WEB DuBois I honestly thought that I already knew everything from him but after digging in deeper I was blown away on how much one person could do in their life time. I was blown away on how much he studied and how far he got because of what he believed in. I only knew one book of him which was the one we read in my class but in reality by the time he died, in 1963, he had written 17 books, edited four journals and played a key role in reshaping black-white relations in America. Like wow that is amazing. Not to mention he was the first African American to earn a PhD.from Harvard University in 1895. He also was involved in so many clubs and was a very strong activist. He even oppose the idea of Booker T. Washington someone who played a major role in the African American community. He consider himself a mulatto. A word that has been very common to us. He was the only black boy in his class and he never saw himself different from any of his classmates until an episode when a white girl refused to accept his visiting card made him aware that he was “different from the others”. But no this didn’t bring him down this incident made him write a philosophy. He traveled to the south where his experience there made him create two metaphors to show the African American community experience after their emancipation: “the veil” and “double consciousness”. Overall Du Bois dedicated his life in helping those in need not only African Americans but also women rights. He is a true inspiration and I hope one day I can at least accomplish half of what he did.