sonofbaldwin:

“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” - Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

I see that I was not the only one who had this book come to mind upon hearing about this “performance” at the RNC…