Is it Racist if its Anonymous

Again on the first chapter of the invisible man, I can clearly see a symbol of the despicable racism that is continuously shown in the novel.

In this case, during the battle royal that the I.M. (invisible man) takes part in, he is blindfolded and forced to fight. There are two important things to remark during the fight:

1. The blindfolding of the black men, a powerful symbolism to the false ideas that white men implant in the fighters minds where they hide the truth and inculcate the idea of inferiority. In other words, they bedim the minds of the black men with their social constructs of superiority. This clouding of the reason is experimented by the narrator himself, as he he describes that he "...was fighting automatically" and in consequence not thinking. (His judgement had already been blurred). Another exponent of the black men's mind obscuring is Tatlock, the other fighter in the final round, that clearly shows lack of judgement when he declines at the narrator's offer of money, and even more when the I.M. asks him if he was "...doing this for them" and he provides no answer.                  
2. The faceless voices of men that insult and provoke the men in the ring. When the character is in the beginning of the fight he describes how a man from the public yells and insults the black men in the ring with phrases like "Let me at those black sonsofbitches", but he never provides an accurate description of the man as he is unable to see him. This direct attack to the men in the fight is at the same time indirect, symbolizing how the white society of the novel attacks the "niggers" as an entire entity, faceless and aggressive. This resembles many other social groups that had often attacked a minority when they have the power of a group. In add this power of the group represents another social construct where the man with an audience has power consequently. 

   With this I conclude today's entry on chapter one and I hope you have enjoyed it. And, like Ed Sullivan would say "For a good show, and have a great evening".