At the same time, he believed that racism was so ingrained in
the white mentality that it would have to receive a series of
hard jolts if significant changes were to occur.
In the final analysis, he said, the N.A.A.C.P. would
have to bargain and conciliate. Like Booker T. Washington, he
felt that it could not afford to be as militant as was
necessary. At about the same time DuBois, himself, became
disillusioned with the gradual conciliatory approach of the
N.A.A.C.P. While he still wanted to work for a integrated
society, he had lost faith in the effectiveness of a biracial
organization to achieve significant change. In an article which
he wrote in Crisis before resigning from the N.A.A.C.P., he
suggested that black separatism or black unity could provide a
more solid front with which to attack discrimination and
segregation than cooperation with white society. His goal, he
insisted, was still to make ten million of his people free. He
wanted to help them break the bondage of economic oppression, to
shake off the chains of ignorance, to gain their full political
rights, and to become exempt from the insults of discrimination
and segregation.
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