When reading Du Bois, I was really interested in his take on the double consciousness and I really liked Alice's questions about whether double conciousness is still prevalent today. I would have to say a definite yes. It really reminds me of when I was in high school. One of my closest friends at the time was black and she would constantly complain about other black girls coming up to her. They would always ask he why she was "acting white." My friend was really annoyed by this. This just makes me think why our society associates certain activities with races. Hence the "acting white" and "acting black." I just really find all of it very ridiculous. After all, we are all human.
So I would have to agree with Adam's take on the poem White Witch. When I first read it though, I thought of the reading about the lynchings. How many black men had been accused of raping white women. It seemed that the poem was a warning to other black men. Then when I thought about it more, I saw the white witch as representing the white community. The white community gets you to trust them and then they turn on you when you least expect it. This also reminded me of the article we read about how African Americans were only considered people when they broke the law.