The views Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were different in many ways but at the same time comparable. First off, it’s very fair to say that the intention behind their political views was truly the attempt to better the African American community as well as their relationship with the whites. Washington and Du Bois view were both very articulate and showing of their educated background. Both of them didn’t want to be just content with being a free citizen they wanted more for themselves and their fellow brothers and sisters. However there are many contrasting views between them. In Booker T. Washington’s 1895 speech, he was trying to appeal to white southerner. He mentions the phrase “Cast down your bucket where you are…...Cast it down in agriculture, …show more content…
In some ways, Washington seemed to offend blacks by saying they were “ignorant and inexperienced” and how they need to earn the acceptance by white America through working hard and industry. Rather not focus on getting a helping hand or right that were in their favor but do everything on their own and not cop out. However W.E.B. DuBois contradicted what Mr. Washington had said. Washington’s “doctrine has tended to make the whites, North and South, shift the burden of the Negro problem to the Negro's shoulders and stand aside as critical and rather pessimistic spectators; when in fact the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.” W.E.B. Du Bois views were a reaction of Washington in that he believed that the odds were always against blacks and they can’t move up the socioeconomic ladder if there were laws and structure in the South that was keeping them down when they need to go up. Du Bois not only wanted civil rights but he also wanted someone in the American government to help represent