gnu, I appreciate your the sincerity of your question. Here's my response:


"W.E.B. Du Bois said, on the launch of his groundbreaking 1903 treatise The Souls of Black Folk, "for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line"—a prescient statement".

http://www.bartleby.com/114/

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Unfortunately, people in the 20th century didn't solve the "problem of the color line". We are all atill impacted in various ways by this "problem" regardless of our race, ethnicity, or nationality. It therefore seems to me that we should learn as much as we can about this multi-faceted problem, and constantly work to rid ourselves of vestiges of its poisonous tenacles. And it seems to me that we should help others to also learn about the problems of the color line (i.e "racism") how we can, as best we can, when and where we can.

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Here's the ending statement for W.E.B Du Bois'book The Souls Of The Black Folks

"The After-Thought

Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world-wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought and thoughtful deed to reap the harvest wonderful. (Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare.) Thus in Thy good time may infinite reason turn the tangle straight, and these crooked marks on a fragile leaf be not indeed

THE END"

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Here's an excerpt from W.E.B Du Bois' Wikipedia page:

"William Edward Burghardt Du Bois pronounced /duːˈbɔɪs/ doo-BOYSS)[1] (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. At the age of 95, in 1963, he became a naturalized citizen of Ghana.[2]

Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism— scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."[3]"