In light of Mr. Clint Eastwood's sad, sorry, foolish conversation with an "invisible" President Barack Obama and a chair last week, and that fact that many at the RNC found this to be funny, I am reminded that for many persons in America who have historically found thmselves on the margins of society (slaves, women, immigrants, the disabled, gays/lesbians, the poor...), invisibility is no laughing matter. So serious is the matter of invisibility that Ralph Ellison wrote these words in his 1952 novel "Invisible Man" - "I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
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