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The Deep Ideological Origins of Critical Race Theory | James Lindsay

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The Seventh Son of Hegel

Du Bois says the American Negro is a sort of seventh son. He wants to merge his double self into a better and truer self, he writes. Du Bois: "He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism" The black and the white are inconsolable, irreconcilable, they have to be put in dialectical opposition,.

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