The Souls of White Folk

Silence Equals Complicity

William Spivey
Black History Month 365
5 min readNov 3, 2022

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Photo by Davide Ragusa on Unsplash

“It dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.” — W. E. Burghardt Du Bois

In 1903, W. E. B. DuBois published a historical work, “The Souls of Black Folk.” It was a series of essays on the topic of race. These essays addressed…

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