"Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?"

 I finished Invisible Man this week and WOW... I surprisingly liked it. But the most mind blowing sentence I read was at the very end of Ellison's novel; "Who knows but that on lower frequencies, I speak for you?"

But let's start from the beginning. Invisible Man is a book about an African American man trying to find his place in society. In Ellison's novel, he mentions civil rights groups, police brutality and incarceration, and riots throughout New York City due to racial injustices in America...

But keep in mind, this book was written only 70 YEARS AGO!

70 years? Of course some things have changed. Yet as I continued to read through Ellison's novel, the injustices and violence depicted in Ellison's novel started to seem eerily similar to what I have witnessed through the my TV.

And that is what shocked me the most about Invisible Man. That it seemed that the author traveled to the future, and knew that progress would move at a snail pace. It seemed that he knew that people would look back and would relate to this book 70 years later. 

I have never read a classic that depicted a society that is similar to what I see today (I'm thinking of 1984 for reference), and while there have been changes since the 1950's, it is blatantly obvious that the nameless narrator in Ellison's invisible man knew something that other American's could not figure out; that change would take an excruciating amount of time, making Ellison fear that future generations could relate to his work.