‘I stand as a shadow… Still not having become an American man.’

…I stand as a shadow — the evolution of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.” For I am visible but still not fully regarded in the 21st century…

John Fountain, who peers over the Atlantic Ocean from a former slave castle in Cape Coast Ghana he visited a few years ago, says that in his home America he and black men in general are still not regarded as a full-fledged man.

…I stand as a shadow — the evolution of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.” For I am visible but still not fully regarded in the 21st century America as finally having become an American man.

I stand as Richard Wright’s “Black Boy,” having inhaled the warmth and hope of the American ideals of liberty, justice and democracy. But I have been choked by the bitter cold realities of their illusion and hypocrisy.

I have witnessed purveyors of the dream use sleight of hand.

Divide between haves, have-nots is by indivine creation
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