Afro-pessimism and The “Social Death” Sentence

Defenders of CRT don’t realize that if the current generation accepts the premises of CRT, Afro-pessimism will be the byproduct decades down the line.

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During the first decade of the 20th century W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington had a philosophical rivalry. Dubois predicted the problem of the 20th century would be the color-line. He basically forecasted the permanents of white supremacy in America. Before Washington died in 1915, he made a contrasting statement. He didn’t intend to predict the future, but his statement was prophetic.

Washington said, “There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some people do not want the Negro to lose his grievance, because they do not want to lose their job.”

Dubois’s prediction fell short due to the 1954 Brown v. Board Supreme Court desegregation decision, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, The Great Society programs and Affirmative Action. However, at…