W.E. B. Du Bois ideas of the veil and double consciousness
or twoness can be represented by just about everyone in one way or another I’m
sure. Everyone would have their own circumstances and conditions pertaining to
their situation. Are there ever any situations where there’s a positive veil? I
was thinking earlier of an attractive girl interviewing and receiving a job
that she’s under qualified for, where would that be in relation to this
concept? Then I got to thinking about how the military jury (in the video we
watched for class) got to be there, which was probably an easy journey if they
had connections through the family or just an advantage because they’re of a
middle or higher class and their white.
So I’ll take that as an answer to my question.
To make
sure I have this stuff straight, I understand the veil as the characteristics
of a person that most often negatively, but can sometimes positively, affect
them. I believe the double consciousness to be the recognition of the
characteristics that give you your veil. Du Bois, being a black man with an
English education was able to see, very clearly, the differences in how he was
treated in his environment compared to the white men around him and the privileges
that weren’t offered to him.
He had
good ideas and concepts that I bet helped other people realize that they were
in a similar situation and gave them motivation and the support to back their argument
up. The Tuskegee Airmen could’ve even been some of the few that he’s helped lay
foundations for.
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