Wednesday, February 20, 2013

W.E.B. Du Bois vs Booker T. Washington - Then and Now

Click here if you wish to access the transcript of the interview with Anthony Monteiro provided by The Real News. He's a professor of African-American studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.

It's important to recover much of the history that has been removed from education by censors of the One Percent. My own experience of African-American history was very limited. I learned a lot about Booker T. Washington, but only a few references to W.E.B. Dubois in my education that included university history courses. This video and subsequent ones in the series should help me and you recover some of what our masters in the One Percent decided was not good for us to know. Monteiro makes us aware that attitudes expressed by Booker T. Washington are still evident today.