Black Americans were already given jobs before Du Bois wrote this publication. Blacks were forced to work in America by colonialists who owned sugar, cotton, and other plantations. This means that Du Bois's suggestions are already impossible, since he asks for things all at once, not progressively. It is also evident that Black culture has manifested itself in the 21st century in many different ways, through art, music, literature, food, language, and religion. And finally, we see that many black Americans still do not have freedom. They are not truly free in America as they are still seen as, as Du Bois would say, “a problem” in society. As of September 20, 2016, according to a database titled “The Counted: curated by online news source “The Guardian,” 193 Black Americans have been killed by police. This number amounts to 4.83 blacks killed per million, which is more than triple the statistic of one white American killed by police. (The Guardian). One would have to be really misinformed about what it means to be free if you are more than three times more likely to be hit by a bullet than someone else based solely on the color of your skin. Du Bois's ideas for generating an equitable life for a black American were hopeful. We now know that it will be impossible for Black Americans to receive all three factors at once as they have been waiting for freedom for decades.