I think he looked at it as a start. It had to begin somewhere!

That's what irked me about De Bois. He seemed to dimiss the progress that had been made and want radical change too quickly. As...

pessimistic as it sounds, you can't exactly go from being a slave to a lawyer overnight.

yeah I kinda agree with Emily with the fact that De Bois's approach is an opitmistic approach...

I know what he is saying by we can't just blame certain people in the south, but all the south and north were apart of it