"our white is so white". The narrator gets a job from Emerson at Liberty Paints. First of all the name has so much meaning an thousands of ways to interpret it based on the context of the book. Liberty to me in this sense is saying the freedom that you want to have if you're black or the freedom you already have if you're white which you can brag and be proud of. Paints simply denote for me the color of your skin, your race. Put them together and I think, that you're freedom is based on the color of your skin. Which is more that true in the book, and unfortunately true in real life. There is still racism and people still judge you solely based on the way you look. With paint you can just cover right over it. Like hoe Mr. Bledsoe, is just another black man trying to paint himself white and cover his real colors. Or hoe Mr. Norton is trying to make himself seem black but can disguise his true "white" intentions.

I feel like the narrator is still blinded to the fact of racism. He is in his dreams that every body, black and white, will follow their "social responsibility" to society. But he goes up north to Harlem and meets Wheatstraw who is obviously from the south. (This is ironically done on purpose because wheat is harvested by slaves in the southern plantation farms.) Mr. Wheatstraw expects the narrator to pork chops and biscuits because he is black and from the south, but the narrator get offended and orders toast instead. He is upset because he thinks that everybody is going to automatically have respect for one another. Mr. Wheatstraw was not trying to discriminate against the narrator, its just the cultural standards that the narrator is blinded to. This changes when when Mr. Bledsoe's recommendation for the narrator states for him to never come back to college and that he can find a job at another place. He realizes the people he is trusting to fulfill the "social responsibility" are the ones breaking it. He is just realizing that Mr. Bledsoe is a fraud and against his own kind. I hope that narrator takes the revenge that he claims he wants to!

My feelings about Mr. Norton were wrong but my gut instincts were right. He helps people for his own selfish reasons. To have more pride and to look down on people. As if they cant survive on their own, they need his help, because he's so great. Underneath every thing he is arrogant and discriminates. This is reminds me of what the grandfather to the narrator's family, to do everything the white people tell you but to secretly hate them. Mr. Norton is giving and education to black but only because he looks down on them. And the fact that the narrator actually believes that he is giving hope contributes to his blindness. He thinks that Mr. Norton is giving him a chance and is sort of thanks him. Like when he offers to show him off campus and stuff. When they met Mr. Trueblood off campus Norton later acts nicer around him. I think because he wanted to do the same with his daughter when he says "i cant believe shes my own flesh and blood" it could mean he is in secure because he daughter is so amazing unlike him. Or that he would want to have incestuous sex with his daughter. Even thought Mr. Norton is educated he is still has the "trailer trash" white in side him.

The Founder's statue is another part of the invisible metaphor through the book. The authors decides to leave out the details of the founder. His name is anonymous and his humanity is only generated through the statue. Which means it could be anybody and that its not as important being that the founder can do anything general. Or it means that the statue is nobody, and what ever they are doing does not matter. Which refers to being invisible. If no one can see you, do you exist?
Mr. Norton is good man, i really like him because he truly wants to help people. His beliefs work in reverse in comparison to most whites. When he states to the narrator the their fates depend on each other he mean how they need to work together. He is saving the blacks an education and giving them a chance. With out Mr. Norton education would not even have been a possibility. But he is also depending on the blacks. Mr. Norton enjoys taking care of others, needless to say it gives him his fix of pride. So he can feel good about himself. So far Mr. Norton seems like a good guys and I trust his character, but I'm curious to know if he has insecurity issues.

"I say what most men feel" stood out to me because the veteran is the only honest one and who knows the truth about things. As far as I know he is not blind and he knows the truth. That the white people in society are trying to demean and look down upon them. He is not willing to give them a thousand second chances, like the narrator blindly does, because he knows better than to degrade himself. Unlike Mr. Bledsoe who does not care how he treats his peers because it will put him on top. He is not out to get a fix from helping people. And he is not afraid to tell people the deal. I almost feel like he being a war veteran has seen "everything" he has been through the horrific environment of war. When you got to war and make it back alive, you have nothing to lose, when your life has already been threatened at every second. You see things that people could not imagine in their nightmares. I feel like he's been through enough to just bullshit, when his life was already at steak, there is nothing to lose.

Mr. Bledsoe, follows the duplicity the narrator's grandfather brought up. He kind of reminds me of an uncle tom. He would rather put down blacks and go against his own race than lose his authority as the president of the college. The people taking charge seem to be the most fake and "white". The concept of being powerful is being "white" not so much the color of your skin. In context White people are usually the leaders, but the black people who take charge are helping the white people. Practically being white themselves or powerful.
The theme of being blind and invisible keeps reoccurring especially when you least expect it. Every time you think something is going alright, there is a twist and it just makes you feel low. The pastor, Mr. Barbee, talks about The Founder and his life story. How the founder used to be a slave and had a rough childhood but was able to over come it. When Mr. Barbee goes back to his seat and his glasses fall off revealing that he is blind. Just when you think that an African American is getting recognition you realize they don't know the significance.

I know I am a heavy sleeper, but I know for a gosh darn fact I would never do this! The narrator drives Mr. Norton near the country side. And we meet this guy, Jim Trueblood, who raped her daughter in HIS sleep. Being a poor black family they sleep in one bed, and while Mr. Trueblood is sleeping he is unconsciously having sex with his daughter. That's so terrible, probably more horrific reading about it than watching in on screen. The descriptions just make you feel gross. But Mr. Trueblood is more interesting to the white people compared to the other black people. I don't know if this was done to make white people gruesome. Going by the stereotypical theory that white "trailer trash" people are sloppy and just have incestuous sex. Kind of like black people liking white people if they were to appreciate fried chicken. See, that is a little racist so it could possibly the theory based on the context of discrimination in the book.
Something I'd like to point about Mr. Norton is that he is always drinking! Every page mentions a drinking reference like 4-5 times. If i didn't know I would think that Mr.Norton was an alcoholic. And pardon the racism, but i think Mr. Norton being white and alcohol can also be a stereotypical. I think of those intellecutals who are beaten and just drink and think all day which usually white people do. Like Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe.