| | I have reached the point in writing my book The Vision-Driven(TM) Life to discuss Ayn Rand's essay "Racism" in Return of the Primitive. I like to open each chapter with a brief illustrative story to concretize the abstract essentials of a given Rand reading. The story of the somewhat antagonistic relationship between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois seems like an excellent selection. I actually only recently learned about this thanks to some graduate school entrance examinations. Evidently Washington wanted to take a slow, solid road of mass education and the deliberate cultivation of virtue in the newly freed slaves while Du Bois took a more radical, hard line stand -- with the latter showing all signs of having won political acceptance while making the people it intended to help lose.
Before I start researching and writing, I thought I would post in case anyone had any better stories to share.
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