Conformity In Invisible Man

Invisible Man ends with the narrator running away from the police for being accused of doing something he did not do. Scenes like this from a novel that was written sixty years ago can still be recognizable to readers today because of police brutality. Since the narrator was near Ras the Exhorter, he was guilty by association. Other unfortunate events led the narrator to be expelled from school, unemployed, and released from his organization. There was always a person of higher position over the narrator who had a distorted view of race relations. The Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines white supremacy as “the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black

Black excellence can be achieved by respecting those who do the same, and being active toward the change you would like to see. No minority should have to conform, conceal, or submit in order to receive the same opportunities that Caucasians are afforded. Sterling Lecater Bland, Jr describes in his article “Being Ralph Ellison: Remaking the Black Public Intellectual in the Age of Civil Rights” that Ellison personally used a different approach for being an advocate. He states, “Ellison’s foundational ideas about the duties of black artists and intellectuals in the public sphere became a kind of a through-line in how he crafted and maintained his own public role in the age of civil rights,” (Lecater, 53). Ellison understood that there can be different approaches to how you want to be perceived, but they do not include being a radical or a stereotype. Bledsoe’s viewpoint is not effective because his obsession with maintaining an image cost a young man his education. Kicking the narrator out of school created a snowball effect that many institutions, predominantly white or historically black, do to their minority students. The institution or a sponsor will

He experienced the kind that the majority unintentionally masks their racism. They believe that their strategies are not racist, but their attempts to not be racist makes it worse. They try to control minorities instead of listening to their issues and using their privilege to actually help. The Brotherhood is a Marxist minded organization that is predominantly white. The Brotherhood recruits African-American men to hold certain positions in order to spread the word about an experiment and methodology they have developed to promote equality in the communities. However, all that their methods did was control the way African-Americans think, how they relay their ideals, and what jobs that they can have. They took what stereotypical view they had of African-Americans and designed a template for how they think African-Americans to act in order to form peace. African-Americans are not guinea pigs for social and environmental experiments. They are not a species that made their way to America, and now there needs to be a plan in order to control them. America is now a land where millions of people from different backgrounds can influence others from their cultural experiences. The Brotherhood’s use of the term “brother” is a way to include themselves in a culture they did not understand. The only reason that they cared about how African-Americans thrived in the North is because they noticed that a culture