Random word challenge #325: organic
This Drabble was written for Medium’s Fiction Short.
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The first sentence will be, “I am an invisible man,” from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.
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“I am an invisible man. That’s what my father taught me. It was the only way to survive in the 1950s.”
“What did that mean, Grandpa?”
“Never look a white person in the eye, especially a white woman. Keep your head down. Always defer. Never demand.”
“I’ve watched you all my life. You look everyone in the eye. You stand erect. You don’t seem intimidated by anyone.”
“I’m a man, John. So are you. That white fellow over there. So is he. It’s the organic truth of nature and God.”
“And America?”
“We’ve still got work to do, John.”
“Amen.”
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