The Importance of Being Black and White in the World

The burden of being a black person in the world, or at least in the United States, is you have to be black and white at the same time. So this is what Du Bois talked about, W.B. Du Bois and the souls of color books,. When he says black people have a double consciousness. In order to survive in the society, black people have to understand how white people think. And so whiteness is exclusionary and blackness is for lack of a better term pluralistic. Am I getting this right? Yes, yes.