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 towards him as though he were to be of white folk so for the stranger all goes well. At one point, in dim light, it was apparent to everyone that he was a mulatto but with not neccesarily of one hundred percent Negro blood. He was tall and slim and had foreign clothes, a cloak coat of some sort. His hair was curly and with an olive complexion. The hostess knew this person was familiar but just could not recall.
