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Naivety is a lifelong struggle. Like IM, trust in the logical, loyal solution in accordance with the system is a major mistake that costs him much of his pride, integrity and identity. Despite the countless number of clues that hint people of their naivety and unwillingness to embrace more radical views, they refuse to see, and eventually learn their lesson, the hard way. This, too, is the struggle with the current system society dwells in. 

Ellison, Ralph (Ralph Waldo Ellison), 1914-94, African-American author, b. Oklahoma City, Okla.; studied Tuskegee Inst. (now Tuskegee Univ.). Originally a trumpet player and aspiring composer, he moved (1936) to New York City, where he met Langston Hughes, who became his mentor, and became friends with Richard Wright, who radicalized his thinking.

It is interesting that Ralph Ellison attended Tuskegee institute. That was a trade school specifically designated for black people. He must have used his frustration for not having society's restraints keep him from attending a normal university to write Invisble Man. The narrator shares in some of the same challenges.

"In 2000, in the Middle Atlantic and East North Central regions, black families' median income was especially low relative to that of whites." In IM, a running truth that kept IM going was that "white men only allowed black people to go as far as the whites wish it to be." In this 2000 statistic, we can see that this is still happening, that even though there is parity between whites and blacks in terms of graduation rates, the median incomes, the lifestyles of millions of blacks living in the North East Central region of the country were significantly less than of their white counterparts. We were also introduced to the whole concept that racism seemed to be a distant issue when IM finds his way up north, but instead, he eventually realizes that the north was waging a secret racism war on itself, where the racism was in truth, more intense than it was in the more modest, and "well-mannered' south.

The invisible man was important to the time period because Ellison challenged the way that African AMericans were typically characterized. When Ellison wrote Invisible Man, ther were few other novels that proposed the idea the black people were suffering from their lack of civil rights. He was ahead of his time.

This is the finally realization that helps the reader know the the narator has matured and discovered how to overcme the oppression. He see the controlling his ow destiny and unity are the keys for success

This shows the rebirth of the narrator in which the scale begins to tip in favor of his maturity. By wiping the slate clean with the destruction of his memory, he is able to move on with his life and see the oppression that the whites use to keep the blacks invisible

An interview in which Alex Haley, co-author of Malcolm X's biography, talks about his observations on racism, be it white-on-black, black-on-black, or other situations.

This discusses the change within the narrator which leads him to maturity. Bound by te barriers of white society, his ignorance to the oppresson leads to his easily manipulation. After going in the whole though he sees the need to unite with his race

This quote has to due with the Invisible Man's attempt to break away from his past. This shows his progression as he knows that it is only holding him back. He needs to thirve in the new north with a new life

This helps show the beginning of the narrator's process of maturity. He does not acknowledge the lack of trust nor the oppression against him. This helps show his blindness and ignorance

Some Muslim guy calls the Jews racist; just like Malcolm .His point: even though both Jews and blacks are minorities, the Jews end up rich and powerful, while the blacks end up poor, in ghettos, and oppressed.

no im not saying you do, im just saying that farrakhan is an idiot because he is hahaha

You would post this.

Fewer Than 1 in 5 Express Favorable View Of The Religion

A poll that was taken a little less than two years ago shows that 45% of Americans are unfavorable of the religion of Islam, and Muslim people in generally. This number jumped from 33% in 2002, generally due to terrorist acts being blamed on the religion as a whole. Malcolm X was one of the first outspoken supporters of the religion in America, one in which many Americans generally do not have much knowledge about. He spoke about Islam and its role in America in a time when people disliked it because it seemed strange. Today, Americans are more knowledgeable about the religion, but obviously still highly ignorant and deluded into thinking that it is the cause of actions performed by terrorists.

Talks about the psychology behind cults, which can be useful information with regard to the Brotherhood in Invisible Man and the National of Islam.

This compilation is based around the book Living With Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings, and co-produced and annotated by that volume's editor, Robert G. O'Meally. The idea is to assemble various pieces of music with some connection to Ellison or his writings, with the specific threads -- a direct comment Ellison might have made on a track, for instance, or a song that's referred to in one of his stories -- explained in O'Meally's notes.

This is a track listing of an album composed of tracks that influenced Ellison in his work. An aspiring musician who went to school to study it, Ellison also grew close with many famous musicians in Harlem. These artists, including Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were an essential part of a thriving social scene in Harlem while Ellison wrote invisible man. The last track is a recording of Ellison's 1964 address at the Library of Congress. He speaks about "blind men on corners" and the blacks who pretend to be part of a successful white society, people whom Malcolm X spoke so strongly against years later.

Like the pre-Mecca Malcolm, this guy rages against whites, calling us the devils, just like Malcolm X! He brings up valid points regarding the mind control enforced by whites upon other minorities. Whites rule the education systems of America, as well as most of the media, so it is easy for them to decide what to teach to other races. Also, as blacks and other minorities acclimate and Americanize, they lose the sense of their own culture, and are 'whited out' so to speak.

Not all of "us" are white!