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W.E.B. DuBois
The Fight for Equality and the
American Century
Keith W. Cooper
931-0752
Recently, I learned the Reverend
Jesse Jackson fathered a baby
through an extramarital affair,
This reminded me of attempts to
vilify the character of Mike
Tyson, Michael Jackson,
Cosby, OJ. Simpson, and other
heroes in America. Because |
don't believe in double standards,
I researched the private lives of
numerous white American leaders
(mostly former congressmen). |
will mention a few who have
fallen from grace since the main-
Stream press downplayed their
sexual peccadilloes.
Rep. John Young (Tex.), in 1976,
staff secretary after she gave in to
his "sexual advances." Rep. Howe
(Utah) was arrested in 1976 on
charges of soliciting two police-
women posing as prostitutes. Rep.
Richmond (N.Y.) was arrested in
Washington in 1973 for Tsoliciting
sex from a 16-year-old boy.
Republican Rep. Hinson (Miss.),
in 1980, admitted committing an
obscene act at a gay haunt in
Virginia. Rep. Evans (R-Del.),
Tom Railsback (R-Ill.) and Dan
Quayle shared a cottage with
Paula Parkinson (a lobbyist) dur-
Ing a 1980 Florida vacation.
Railsback and Quayle denied
having sex with " Parkinson.
Conservative Republican Rep.
Donald Lukens (Ohio) was ac-
cused of having paid to have sex
with a young girl since she was
13. Lukens was sentenced to only
One month in jail.
_ Former House " Speaker
Livingston recently resigned after
admitting having extramarital af-
fairs, Shall 1 say more?
From Thomas Jefferson, who, by
today's standards, raped a slave to
President Cleveland (fathered a
child out of wedlock) and Jesse
Jackson, many leaders have
Slipped. Jefferson, however, is
remembered for the Louisiana
Purchase and the Declaration of
Independence,
Jackson, whose son is now a
torchbearer for racial justice,
must reconcile with his wife.
Linda Ronstadt's quote "My big
fantasy has been to seduce a
he oe vulnerability
reachers with respect to the
forbidden fruit", .
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increased the salary of a former.
One. fundar nental question to an
understanding .of American his-
7 tory is how black Americans
developed the psychological
stamina. and collective social
capacity to cope with the sophis-
ticated system of racial domina-
tion that. white Americans had
anchored deeply in law and
customs. One man whose genius
was for 70 years at the intellec-
tual epicenter of the struggle to
destroy white supremacy as pub-
lic policy and social fact in the
United States cannot be ignored:
William Edward Burghardt Do
Bois.
W.E.B. Do Bois (1868-
1963) was a poor isolated young
Negro, born in western
Massachusetts three years after
the Civil War. He was educated
at Harvard University and the
University of Berlin and was
acknowledged as the leader of
~ black American opinion since
the death of Booker T.
Washington in 1915. One of his
well-known works is oThe Souls
of Black Folk � (1903). He was
a co-founder of the NAACP in
1910 and editor for 25 years of
its journal, the CRISIS: A
Record of the Darker Races,
whose circulation exceeded
100,000 copies per month in
1919. Du Bois had a capacity to
shape black public opinion en-
joyed by no previous Negro
intellectual. He was hailed as the
towering intellectual of his race,
othe chief advocate for the full
Americans. Sometime later,
-phy �-----that of not waiting for
some. distant future when the -
white majority might change its
mind and its behavior, but rather
that Negroes needed to save
themselyes by economic coop-
eration and " _institutional-
building. For the NAACP it was
considered a frank acceptance of
the social and legal fact of
segregation. For the black left,
it was petty bourgeois. black
nationalism. For the civil rights
mainstream, it undermined the
only program that had any
chance of success---that of liti-
gation and lobbying. For these
reasons and the rejection of
other black leaders, the CRISIS
no longer financially independ-
ent because of declining circula-
tion, in 1934 Du Bois resigned
from the NAACP. In 1936 he
toured Germany, Russia, China
and Japan and received a trium-
phal reception. Soon afterward
he began engaging in interna-
tional affairs and returned to the
NAACP in 1944 as director of
special research.
As to his personal life,
Du Bois wrote admiringly and
frequently about beautiful and
accomplished black women. He
is depicted as a combination of
charming cad and geriatric sex
addict. There was a detailed
account of Du Bois Ts arrange-
ments to keep his wife either in
year-old. teacher, « arid
T Nashville oDu Bois and Shirley.
netime ite, - they were living in the same city
leftward drift of his thought and. ai Ther
his thought and pursuit of young women. There
developed a onew racial philoso- ¢
Is one account of how he was egistration Act. He |
bourided by the internal se: |
of the U.S. government a "
labeled an adulterer and that this.
another city for yeas at atime or Du Bois
even in a different place when Februar
68-year-old scholar chased a 29
in
Graham slept together for the
first time on the second night in
January, 1936 �.......
The Communist Party
put forth a major effort to
capture Du Bois for their side in
the war of ideas after World War
II. As late as 1944 Du Bois had
written that, for a minority group
like American Negroes, othe
program of the American
Communist Party was suicidal. �
Yet not more than two years later
he was surrounded increasingly
by party member and fellow
travelers. By 1947 as the Cold
War began to reshape American
politics, a double drift emerged:
of an anti-Communist NAACP
into the hands of the Truman
administration and Du Bois un-
mistakably to the far left. After
his dismissal from the NAACP
in 1948, he found himself in
financial binds. Through Paul
Robeson Ts intervention and oth-
ers from the oLeft �, he was able
to gain financial assistance. At
that time he was still not a
Communist but in February
1950, became chairman of the
Peace Information Center which
had been denounced as a oSoviet
propaganda trick �. The PIC
disbanded in October 1950 but
height of the Cold War. Hi
indicted for falling to co
was° tried and oacquitte:
November 1951.
Although acquitted
Bois became more isolated
ing the 1950s and was den "
passport until the Supreme '
ruled in 1958 that the
Department Ts passport po
were in this regard uncon
tional. In a final act of def
he joined the Communist
of the United States at the a
93 and exiled himself to A
Despite his attacks
economic and social systen
Bois wrote that the United
was omy country and the la
my fathers--- a land of ma
cent possibilities--the hon
noble souls and generous
ple. � Hopefully those ogen
people � may come closer
long-deferred understandir
one of the 20" century Ts
intellectuals-------- William
Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Note: | contacted a
entrepreneur, Mr. William }
Nobles, (also a relative) a
affirmed, indeed, that the
Bois Center was named to |
W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Free Your Mind of Satan's
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Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ:
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