CLINT EASTWOOD AND THE INVISIBLE MAN
"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe, nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasm. 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. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surrounding, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me. Ralph Ellison... The Invisible Man- Richard Wright
This article reveals an ongoing divide and conquer rhetoric which is psychopathic racism as it's finest. Eastwood's support of the arrogance, hate and racism of the conservative right privileged, is a poor reflection of 1940s US society. Even the chair that was used in this side show act was small and simple to even further inject his venom, as if he is chastising a child sitting in a corner for "Time Out". Eastwood looked down from a podium to speak to an empty seat. To then to infer that our President would used profanity towards his republican opponents was even more debasing. Finally, to provoke that the president should be shot, when he used his movie quote: "Make My Day" would be considered treason if this were used by another persuasion. This reminds me of a comic satire article that was posted during President Obama's first term, where a caricature of a King Kong like Ape that was shot down by caucasian police officers. They made the captioned comments about "the stimulus "bill"(instead of Bear)- initiative of President Obama, rearing it's ugly head."
