TWO RESPONSES TO AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM; W.E.B. DU BOIS AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

From: Black Renaissance | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The creed of American exceptionalism holds that America is exceptional -- that history weighs lightly upon the land and its people; that progress in all its dimensions is linear and infinite; and that the power of individuals to shape their destinies has been and remains unparalleled in human experience. For the sake of argument and simplification, may it not be said that once past the Civil War -- due allowance paid to extremists of the left and right and to the white South's infatuation with tragedy -- that Americans' political discourse about society and the economy has centered on the ...

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