In “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”, WEB Du Bois talks about his dealings with prejudice based on race, but race is not the only contributing factor of discrimination. Someone can be discriminated against for not only their national origin, but also for their gender, their religion, or even their sexual orientation. People who are homosexual, for example, are persecuted for their lifestyle and are not allowed to marry a person of their choice. “A people thus handicapped ought not to be asked to race with the world, but rather allowed to give all its time and thought to its own social problems” (p. 296). Prejudice comes from all different types of people. From the extremely religious person who does not believe the homosexual person should be allowed to marry another person of the same gender to an independently wealthy person who thinks poorly of the man who works hard every day at his minimum wage job, all types of people are guilty of being
In “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”, WEB Du Bois talks about his dealings with prejudice based on race, but race is not the only contributing factor of discrimination. Someone can be discriminated against for not only their national origin, but also for their gender, their religion, or even their sexual orientation. People who are homosexual, for example, are persecuted for their lifestyle and are not allowed to marry a person of their choice. “A people thus handicapped ought not to be asked to race with the world, but rather allowed to give all its time and thought to its own social problems” (p. 296). Prejudice comes from all different types of people. From the extremely religious person who does not believe the homosexual person should be allowed to marry another person of the same gender to an independently wealthy person who thinks poorly of the man who works hard every day at his minimum wage job, all types of people are guilty of being