Just re-read Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man

[Binkie The Clown]

I needed to remind myself that cops killing unarmed young black men is not some new phenomenon that just appeared recently.

If you haven't read it, do so. It's a powerful book that's as relevant now as it was 63 years ago when it was first published.

Invisible Man is a novel by Ralph Ellison, published by Random House in 1952. It addresses many of the social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans early in the twentieth century, including black nationalism, the relationship between black identity and Marxism, and the reformist racial policies of Booker T. Washington, as well as issues of individuality and personal identity.

Invisible Man won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Invisible Man nineteenth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

Quoted from Wikipedia

[Journeyman]

1. I think of Clifton whenever there's a hue and cry over police murder . . .

Tod Clifton, who "resisted reality in the form of a .38 caliber revolver in the hands of the arresting officer."

What does it matter, the circumstances and details? When you understand the concept, what matter a hundred thousand instances of its application? We are all in a hole, bathed in what light we can bring, and it is up to us to summon the answers. For they are there, hidden beneath the lower frequencies of our minds. . .