Du Bois mentions that there is still a query which remains unasked among Black people, which is what we went over in class when we watched the youtube video about the question “How does it feel to be a problem.” Rather than white individuals asking this question or considering how people of color feel in this regard, they’ll speak to him saying things like “I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil?” Du Bois then recalls his first ever time realizing he was different, when a classmate in his elementary class refused to accept a card from him. The image he uses is one of being “shut out from their world by a vast veil.” Firstly, no one should feel as if they aren’t part of the same world as anyone else, let alone a child feeling that way. The vast veil describes the large history of distance between white people and people of color, and how they still keep a fat distance in a large amount of situations, no matter how harmless a situation may be (example: the girl refusing a card from her classmate). He then mentions how afterward he did not have any bit of interest in breaking down or passing through this veil, yet he held everyone on the opposite side of him (white people) in contempt, and “above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.” The blue sky would represent a form of “freedom” (as free as one can be as a person of color in this time period), freedom in the sense that in that moment he freed himself from thinking he should try and change what he cannot control in the current moment.