Your Morning Du Bois
For Friday, May 9th, 2025
Week 113 of our regular morning feature here at Friedman of the Plains Worldwide in which we highlight the great words and works of great men and women, as well as those who are insufferable, delusional, and even fictional.
This Week W.E.B. Du Bois
“Beneath the Veil lay right and wrong, vengeance and love, and sometimes throwing aside the veil, a soul of sweet Beauty and Truth stood revealed.” —Black Reconstruction in America
There is a texture in his writing that invites us to stop for a moment and consider that living an entire life under someone else's heel is less a fleeting moment of pain than a yawning eternity of confusion. Especially if you believe in a benevolent god.
That sweet soul of Beauty and Truth ain't Big Orange.