The souls of black folk, was this essay optimistic or pessimistic about future of US race relation?

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Do you really mean? Was the essay, "The Souls of Black Folk," optimistic or pessimistic about the future of U.S. race relations?
Are you referring to the W.E.B. Dubois poem?

http://www.bartleby.com/114/
No, just the article on "Of Our Spiritual Strivings"
I think the article is optimistic. What do you think?

http://www.bartleby.com/114/1.html