A Triple Paradox

Mr. W.E.B. Dubois shows to his readers the mistakes made by Mr Washington in his "Atlanta Compromise". Dubois basically says that the things that Washington asks for in turn for giving up on black civil rights contradict with the good for the black race. Asking for normal and job related schooling for blacks, in the mind of Dubois, means regressing and putting the black youth in a unproductive environment for their future, and also says that their scholarly society needs higher education to further advance, so to ask for lower education angers Dubois. Washington also says that in the compromise, that blacks will stop the fight for equal rights for the opportunity to be workers and land owners, but Bubois says that there is no way, without enfranchisement, that blacks can protect the little rights the want or have. The final point Washington talks about, is having blacks accept a view of social inferiority, but Dubois declares that a race that gives up their pride, deserves no rights at all, and should not be civilized at all.