Sight and Blindness in "The Invisible Man"

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Either way, their vision is a disadvantage. Then when they are blindfolded, the cloth being white is another representation of white supremacy. In the next few chapters, there is another profound example of blindfolding related to white supremacy. At the narrator's college, in which Ralph Ellison emulates his own college of Tuskegee, there is a statue of the Founder lifting a veil from a slave's eyes...
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However, as the narrator looks at the statue longer, he realizes the ambiguity of the motion the Founder is actually making. Is he removing the veil, or lowering it "more firmly into place" (36)? The narrators and other students at the college depend on the Founder to help the "poor, ignorant people out of the mire and darkness" (99)...
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