In this episode of Real Talk with Jack Tracy, I will examine a novel theory  of my own creation. I am convinced that while Black America continues to revere the image and the thought of Martin Luther King Jr., his true person and teaching has been gutted and deceptively replaced with the divisive philosophy of the Socialist/Communist, W.E.B. DuBois.

I assert that following the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, three competing philosophies emerged among Black leaders. Booker T Washington emphasized Christian character, economic self-sufficiency, and vocational education. Martin Luther King Jr. appealed to America's Christian conscience through non-violent resistance rooted in the Gospel. W. E. B. Du Bois by contrast advanced a secular elitist worldview shaped by socialism and later, an explicit admiration for communism.

Today Martin Luther King Jr. stands as the public face of the Civil Rights Movement, he is quoted in classrooms, commemorated on the National Mall, and invoked in political rhetoric. Yet in this episode I argue that W. E. B. Du Bois has become the intellectual foundation guiding modern discourse on race inequality and institutional power. His concepts such as, “the color line”, “double consciousness”, and the "Talented Tenth" dominate in the universities, activist frameworks and media narratives. 

Meanwhile Booker T. Washington, once the most influential black leader in America, has largely disappeared from public discussion. His emphasis on moral formation, hard work, and interracial cooperation now conflicts with the prevailing ideological climate of elite institutions.

This episode explores my theory that while these three visions competed in time, today Black America is deceptively led to believe that Martin Luther King Jr. lives in the DuBois philosophy. 

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