Of the Culture of White Folk

This essay analyzes World War I (and its aftermath) through the veil by aptly placing it in the spatial, social, and historical context that only the global underclasses, the 'darker peoples' seem to grasp. W.E.B. Du Bois argues that the relative peace in Europe must be understood alongside the violence, extraction, and bondage of colonialism. The unprecedentedly 'great' scale of WWI's death tolls, destruction, and cruelty also needs to be framed within the various colonial projects of Europe.

A society that places a veil over large swaths of its history and economy would end up with a culture that produced some rather strange folks, indeed.
(Summary Source: August G. Smith)