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“Invisible Man” in the Times of George Floyd

Ralph Ellison’s powerful intro is as necessary a read now as it was in 1952

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No sooner had I started re-reading Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s classic novel, the other day, than news of what had happened in Minneapolis filtered through. It’s one of those moments when coincidences become too weird, too “unrealistic”.

Yet, this was real. What happened to George Floyd is the reality for many black people, not just in the States, but around the world.

My first reaction and the one that eventually led me to my Soundcloud account was to record Ellison’s words and share them. And that’s what I’m doing now because only by peeling the layers off our invisibility, one by one, will we be able to show who we really are: human beings.

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