Dubois

W.E.B Dubois

Dubois had a very strong view on propaganda. He believed that not only does art have a practical value, it is nothing without propaganda. Dubois could not see something as beautiful if it did not have truth and justice in it. Dubois said, " Such is beauty. Its variety is infinite, its possibility is endless. In normal life all may have it and have it yet again. The world is full of it; and yet today the mass of human beings are choked away from it, and their lives distorted and made ugly." He is saying that it is made ugly by injustice. That is why beauty to him is justice. This is why art can be used to obtain justice.

Dubois talks about the color line. The color line  is a line dividing communites based on color. It is often a physical line but for most part it is an imaginary line. When I read this, it made me think of that scene in Remember the Titans  when the players go to celebrate after winning a game and one of the white players brings the African-American players into a dinner that is only for whites. The white boy was from the North so he did not understand as much about the South. This video is of poor quality but it was the only one I could find and I really wanted to be able to at least here the exchange.