Sunday, January 27, 2008
Invisible Black Community
At the end of the book in the last chapter a riot breaks out in Harlem because of the Brotherhood. The narrator goes to see what is happening and he sees that his brotherhood brethren are the cause of the riot. Police come to the scene shooting at the black people for causing the riot. Rocks are being thrown around, shots are being fired, and fights are breaking out. The narrator is being chased by his own people. There is violence within the black community. The black people use each other to get what they want. There are many cases where people are being used. The brotherhood uses the narrator for their plans and the narrator uses a woman for his plans. The brotherhoods plan the whole time was to have the black community turn their backs to each other. The narrator was the cause of the black people fighting each other. His speeches that he made throughout the book were all a plan from the brotherhood to get the riot started. The brotherhood sold out their own people by starting this riot. Why would anyone sell out their own race? Maybe it was money and power? The narrator sees the reason there is racism is because of people like the brotherhood. The white man sees this senseless fighting as primitive and believes that blacks should not be given an identity. He believes black people are just pawns of the white supremacists. The black people are unimportant in the white community. They are invisible to the white people. Back in that time most black people were invisible men through the eyes of the racist whites.
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I like how you chose manipulation as the main topic of the post. This reminds me of the book I'm reading for my independent reading project. It's a about an innocent Chinese girl, who became a manipulative women who used everyone around, including her sister, her to become Empress. You asked, “Why would a person sell out their own race?” You are correct in saying that it is power and greed. To some people that is the sole purpose of their living, to gain prestige and wealth.
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