This longing to attain a self conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. And in the merging, he desires neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not africanize america, for america has too much to teach the world and africa. He would not bleach his negro soul in the flood of white americanism, for he knows that negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a negro and an american without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows and without having the door of opportunity closed roughly in his face. So. No matter the smile, no matter the grin, no matter the bow, there is no safety. No hiding place. No matter what mask we wear, we blacks are damned if we do and damned if we dont. As Ralph Ellison says in the beginning of his novel, invisible man, we black americans have no guarantee that we exist at all. I am an invisible man. No, im not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe nor am i one
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