Darkwater By W.E.B. Dubois

christ, and black christ so to speak, but the coming of a mass movement towards humanitarian rights for blacks. "The bride awaits" exclaimed the governor. Although this can also partake its literal meaning, it also can compare as to how it is too late to stop this "movement" from coming and although the governor may want to avoid it there is nothing he can do but just accept it as he "waits". These "visions" are not concrete. The bishop from New York is utterly disgusted at the sight of seeing that the second coming of christ is but a black baby, thus showing his appreciation of change in the social construct of that era. The governor also is against this as he blatantly and openly oppresses any type of change as he complains of the candidate against him, Fleming, of bringing change about such as letting "niggers" as he states them, to vote. This attitude does not surprise many as he is a common dominant white figurehead of the south during this time period. The Japanese and black bishop ,on the other hand, show appreciation and acceptance of this movement as they "bow down and offer incence and gift of gold". To them the beautiful, golden, ecstatic music that they heard was fearful, pandemonic, chaotic noise to the governor and the New York bishop, thus regarding to the black crowd in the streets. This can be linked to The Negro in how Dubois confronts the beliefs and ways of thinking of the "white man" in power and in single it out on a human being, just like himself, solely because of the different characteristics that the black man displays such as hair and facial structures thus forcing the black man lower in the society and thus giving white man more power against the black society.

Dubois also speaks of how one can be so ignorant as to be blinded by the evils established by the time's social construct and forget about the good qualities of humans in general. He shows this in the essay Jesus Christ in Texas. A "stranger" was readily and humbly listening to a conversation between a colonel and a promoter of how black convicts and can be made to do labor thus making the colonel a millionaire in less than ten years. The stranger went along in the colonel's car as the colonel had insisted. The stranger was then introduced to the wife and young daughter as he casually appeared to be "normal". He goes about conversations and gestures toward

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