W.E.B. DuBois
W.E.B. Dubois is best understood as the "grandfather" of Critical Race Theory. He was a black chauvinist and communist self-appointed spokesperson for African Americans in the early twentieth century.
In The Crisis, the official magazine for the NAACP that Dubois founded in 1910 and remained the lead editor for 20 years, he regularly espoused his personal opinions about race relations in the U.S.
In Dusk of Dawn, he wrote:
In The Crisis, the official magazine for the NAACP that Dubois founded in 1910 and remained the lead editor for 20 years, he regularly espoused his personal opinions about race relations in the U.S.
In Dusk of Dawn, he wrote:
In The Crisis, he described black people as "the best bred race on Earth" (238).
Here is his opinion of white people:
“It takes extraordinary training, gift and opportunity to make the average white man anything but an overbearing hog, but the most ordinary Negro is an instinctive gentleman” (238).
Dubois, W.E.B. (1913). The Crisis, Vol. 7.