A review by megryanreally
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

5.0

All of Du Bois' insights foreshadow the present state of the South today but this was especially revealing. W.E.B. Du Bois understood then the true issue of the criminal justice system: its origins and design to control slaves and its injustice in lack of consistency in dealings with blacks v whites. The courts then were "a means of reenslaving blacks" and as nothing has changed, we have no choice but as an educated people to reevaluate and question the court's existence as upholding that which it claims to, or justice as a concept made by whites and for whites alone.