D. Du Bois's views are consistent with Coopers' assessment of the plight of African American women facing the United States. In her essay The Damnation of Women, Du Bois draws distinct connections between Christian theology, women's rights, and the importance of uplifting black women. Du Bois highlights the contradictions and unrealistic expectations imposed on women by Christian theology and ideologies: "All womanhood today is hindered because the world in which it emerges is a world that attempts to worship both virgins and mothers and which ultimately despises motherhood and robs women. virgins. » Du Bois understood the importance of woman's position as man's first teacher. The woman ultimately determines the layout of their society. He goes on to clarify the origin of the “mother idea” as being derived from African culture. Claiming that the first mother came from the dark continent of Africa and Isis, a goddess who was revered and revered as the ideal mother and wife as the original mother. "No mother can love more tenderly, and none is more tenderly loved than the black mother..”