W.E.B. DuBois vs. Booker T. Washington

What's the best way to advance black people in society? Is it through vocational training, like Booker T. argued? Or will society be saved by its "exceptional men," the "Talented Tenth," as DuBois called them.  Here, the Lawndale Kid introduces a historic debate into the roundtable.

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Do you think there are modern incarnations of the DuBois type of leader and the Booker T. Washington argument? Who are they?