Clint Eastwood Isn’t The First To Make A Black Man Invisible

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care2.com 31 Aug '12, 8pm

Clint Eastwood Isn’t The First To Make A Black Man Invisible

I know I’m not alone in being confused about Clint Eastwood’s speech at the GOP convention on Thursday night in which he addressed an empty chair as President Barack Obama. I can tell you, I was completely offended and not because of anything Eastwood — hailed as the mystery speaker before Senator Marco Rubio’s introduction of Mitt Romney’s nomination acceptance speech –said. I was appalled that Eastwood or someone had decided that an empty chair could be used to represent Obama. Addressing the thin air, Eastwood seemed to be talking to an invisible man. Invisible Man is the name of a 1952 novel by Ralph Ellison that is considered a canonical work of African-American literature. The unnamed protagonist, a young African-American male who grows up in the segregated deep south in the early 20th century, believes himself to be figuratively “invisible” to society. People do not...

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