Criteria for Negro Art Reading Questions Du Bois believes that audience members may criticize the subject of his speech because he knows that members could find it irrelevant, and probably stupid and unnecessary because it is more unusual than what is usually discussed by the group Because Dubois is predicting that a number of audience members are very interested in the Criteria for negro art because they may recognize it?s significance He uses a metaphor that the Development of Negro Art is like climbing a mountain and soon the ?Vista will widen? and there will essentially be no limit to what can be done with negro art but a direction for it must be chosen