Question

DuBois claims that Washington... A. Will use Tuskegee Institute to become rich B. Has a program that contradicts itself in three distinct ways C. Is being manipulated by powerful Northerners and Southerner who seek to confine African Americans to low-level jobs serving whites D. Has the uncritical support of most educated black leaders

Answer 1

DuBois claims that Washington B. Has a program that contradicts itself in three distinct ways

The correct option is B.

DuBois tends to cautiously criticize the prominent black leader, Booker T. Washington.

DuBois believes Washington was promoting kind of an assimilationist strategy for the African Americans, especially, African American men.

DuBois is quiet critical of the leader, Booker T. Washington because, DuBois believes that Washington promotes a policy of submission for the African Americans by asking them to give up their three fundamental privileges, which are as follows :

1. political power,

2. civil rights,

3. higher education.

DuBois tends to see three major results of this very policy.

DuBois argues that Washington is not only solely responsible for but has also helped to develop the following:

1. the disenfranchisement of the Negro,

2. legal inferiority of the Negro,

3. the withdrawal of aid from Negro institutions of higher learning.

DuBois argues that African Americans cant make any economic progress if they actually tend to lack the political rights and the opportunities to develop as men.

Hence, he tends to claim that Washington faces a "triple paradox" which is as follows:

1. That Negro artisans cant become businessmen and the property owners, if they are not granted suffrage,

2. That African Americans cant become self-respecting if they tend to continue to be submissive,

3.Washington advocates industrial education for African Americans. But alas, even Tuskegee could not survive without the teachers trained in the Negro colleges.