The Relationship Between Du Bois and Washington on the Issue of Manual Labor and Political, Agricultural and Mechanical Education

We often read Du Bois in this sense saying, oh, we need liberal arts education. But let's remember what he says in the soliloquy in the works of his life. He says it's all about economics. Washington believes that white people are fundamentally racist and how they treat black people is going to be dependent on their market value and use. So create markets and a value that white people can't dispose of and they rely on. That creates the basis by which black people have a path towards equality.