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Web Dubois, What Makes a Great Nation?
but with acceptance and learning from each other as a race. Dubois writes "striving toward that
vaster ideal that swims before the black people, the ideal of human brotherhood, gained through
the unifying ideal of Race
made him realize with a certain suddenness, that he was different from the others. A girl refused a
beautiful card from him, when the whole class exchanged them. That experience undoubtedly
went to the very core of his being, making in this fraction of a second very transparent for him,
that his life would be so different from hers. Two children, two cultures were separated by a wide
gap in the fabric of society.
He felt "shut out from her world by a vast veil" and he had thereafter no desire to tear
down that veil. To protect himself he held his head high above "wandering in blue sky" as he
called it and looked upon the other world with common contempt. His fragile feelings as a small
boy were deeply hurt...
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