What Is W. E. B. Dubois A Sociological Problem

American Baptist College

Sociological Problems: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and W.E.B. DuBois
Abstract
When it comes to sociological problems, it is understood that there are a number of issues that concern our community that deal with a wide range of concerns and dilemmas regarding the African-American population. Most of the sociological problems that have extended their presence into our present day society can be traced back to the beginning of institutionalized slavery in the United States. In particular, for Negros, it was a society shaped by racism, the fight for equality, and education. However, Dr. Martin Luther King and W.E.B. Dubois expounded on these issues during the time of their revolutionary movements.
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There has been much time that has passed since slaves were brought into this country. These people were brought over on ships and transported in conditions than were less than humane. The torture and pain endured was unimaginable. Although many years have passed since the Middle Passage, the plight of the negro is still futile and our people are suffering at the hands of systems that are plagued with inequality as well as inferior systems that prevent our people from progression. Negroes have had a significant measure of difficulty in breaking free from the slave mentality and are casualties of a society made to view them as a commodity rather than a citizen. W.E.B. Dubois stated, “The wage of the negro worker despite the war amendments was to be reduced to the level of bare subsistence by taxation, peonage, cast, and every method of discrimination” (Berghardt,
King spoke about hoe negroes, as American citizens, were tired of being oppressed and denied equal rights. Negros were neglected, overlooked and disregarded in society never having access to the same measure of rights as their white counterparts. King stated, “In this other America millions of worked starved men walked the streets daily in search for jobs that do not exist. In this other America millions of people find themselves living in rat-infested, vermin filled slums. In this other America, people are poor by the millions.” The negro people found themselves in a place of severe poverty while white people were experiencing the advantages of economic prosperity. The “other America” presented no hope to anyone classified as a minority. They find themselves perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity and that many people of various backgrounds live in this “other America” including Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Indians and Appalachian whites. But probably the largest group in this other America in proportion to its size in the population is the American Negro." (The Other America,