W.E.B. Dubois

W.E.B. Dubois talked in this chapter about how music was important and how it didn’t just affect the blacks but it also affected the whites to. The blacks moving into the religion really changed how religion and the songs in church were. At the end though he talked about how the negro problem affected the blacks soul. He touched on it about how mean the whites were and how the blacks had to act a certain way. The way that the whites wanted them to act so that they could somehow get through life. The blacks had to cover up their true soul in order to please the whites and be this person who is not them at all. They could though bring out their soul in their music and in church which was somewhat of a relief but it was also that they had to change their religion due to the whites. So this wasn’t completely who they truly were. They had to always watch their steps and make sure they were always pleasing. They had to watch what they say and could never really let their soul be free and be who they really are. This was such a hard task for the blacks and it took a great toll on them and they had hope that one day their soul could be free. They always tried to keep some hope on that things would be better or that they finally would be free.