The Spiritual Scholar: W.E.B. Du Bois

Having lived through the rise of Jim Crow, the lynchings of family and friends, two world wars, the onset of the nuclear age, and the beginnings of the Cold War and the civil rights movement (just as Du Bois had), Manuel's wife asked him: Have you no hope - I mean - afterward? Manuel responded...

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Published in:The Journal of blacks in higher education 2007-10 (57), p.73-79
Main Author: Blum, Edward J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African American Culture
African American studies
African Americans
American history
Bible
Christianity
Du Bois, W E B (1868-1963)
Essays
Faith
Jewish people
Jews
Keresiouan languages
Poetry
Prayer
Race
Racial Discrimination
Religion
Semitic Languages
Soul
Spiritual belief systems
Truth
Undergraduate Students
United States History
Violence
White Students
White supremacy
Whiteness studies
Whites
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Summary:Having lived through the rise of Jim Crow, the lynchings of family and friends, two world wars, the onset of the nuclear age, and the beginnings of the Cold War and the civil rights movement (just as Du Bois had), Manuel's wife asked him: Have you no hope - I mean - afterward? Manuel responded with a critique of religion in American life: If a man faces the facts and says honestly, T don't know, and see absolutely no proof that we will live again' - should such a soul be derided or accused or read out of the Congregation of the Righteous - while hypocrites, liars and fools crowd into that comfortable refuge? Manuel answered his own question, Would it not be wiser and better to say, T do not know' or T do not hope?' No matter what Paul preaches, I know Hope is not Truth.
ISSN:1077-3711
2326-6023