Rage is Never Blind Ft Chester Hime's : A Blind Man With A Pistol"

 A face solemn, with sweat ,angst filling up the ai, as black bodies rummage through the streest, and look out to the colorful parade .

It is but a man with pistol colouring , the white canvas of Harlem streets.

That was my first impression of" A Blind with A pistol" and the cover photo plastered on my modern penguins edition , that would speak volumes  for the hilariouly seriously commmitted  enactment of crimes .

The cover photo, with its post modernist destructulist technique, and its collages plasters, would not only speak, of the very unusual plot of the book, and the many stories that hover around it, but with the plastered emotions and events.
In the Blind man with a pistol  world we are met with the hilariously bitter comedy noir of the African American centric world during the 70s .
It is a multi-dimensional criticism, of prototyoes, social stratification, men vs woman, and the white , antagonim of blackness.
Chester Himes, within these pages , creates a quissential black manifesto, with an intriguing portryal, of all classes of society.
Here the narratives juxtaposes whitenss to blackness, and how both in spite of their seeming differences, share this lust of violence, that is derivative of a culture of shere hatred , and racisme.
So brutality, is the name and working mines of the story .

Yet the comical aspect of the novel, is never lost on the reader , we understand it is a comedy noir , with the funeral house a solemnn and liveliess place , somehow from the start, becones  populated with the stories and the lives of the African -American .
Chester Himes, creates a comedy noir, where the most duplicit, the most cunning, the most inspidily deviant " Messiah", with 17 wives are exposed.
Brutality, is so common, in the world of "the Blind with the Pistol", that once we figure out the killing of the white man at the end, and the parade of killing that the blind man conducted , we become desensitized, left to wonder with no answers at all , but a didactic ome.
Within the last pages, the castration of Afro-American in literature becomes evident, as we meet different classes and dimensions.
The bad , the ugly, and the devious , is not at loss of words here .
Every aspect of the afro-American community in Harlem, is corrupted , even the police , the so-called agents of justice, and paraders of truth, are as much ship -wrecked , in contempt,and corrupted  by the foul dust of the era as any one else 

So much so , that the start of the novel announces, how crime is handled in a careless manner , in eye-measure , not in clear protocol, in the name of" keeping things as they are "
Though as the novel progresses, two central characters , two black detectives Grave Digger, and Coffin Inn, slowly quickly become infuritated , and attuned to the injustices in the street.
They first , are complacent , with the wreckage , and plotting on the streets, following commands, as simple sevants , only to realize through the parades of black power , the youthful agony of freedom, and many conundrums, on black power and black suffrage, they become attuned to their irresolute position, and in full outburst outrage , condeming he white cops, and the white antagonism to their faces.
Here the story, unveils, that corruption, is multi-dimensional, and quite anchored , that even now , while the cops have become somehow true justice warriors, they can saddly, and to a bitter realization  that their work, is dismantled, as the true meaning of justice loses itself , in the corrupted , and the crux of hate in Harlem.
We rediscover , the true meaning of justice , and power.
Power , despite racial segregation, seems to be the token for all times and places, as Sugartit, and her accomplice get away, with the murder of a layman black mann, in the ripest time of his age .
That the pursuit of the two black detectives as crorupted as it was, with many holes permeating it, and their hands leading to the many infections of hate, and trail of crimes, could have never over ome , the much more powerful dexterous hands of a monopoly of money .
That violence , is nothing but a chainwheel of events, and suprrzssed anger.

That the whites , are just as angry as the black, though the former for their disposition from the new dynamics of power, wishing that the rats, would be a host of the black body , to kill with pistol.
While the Black man is filled with antagonsim, with the fear , of what the next day holds for him and his family.
So every-day , is either a mourning , a parade , or  a celebration, each day is the preaching of a Messiah , to lend you back to history re-written, to not follow in the trails of the older generation, and win your freedom.
We are bethroned , to a kingdom of chaos, and abruption of violence.
A boiling pot of conflicts,and hatefulness, that might be best portrayed through the act of cutting the black Jonathan.
The rooms of the building were the white man was murdered .
The " Blind Man  With A Pistol's" book, is as much binded with violence, as it is blinded by a political performance .
So much so , that the writer hastens to execute the end blow , of the blind man with the pistol, as to show how lethal, and gullible racisme is , only to let many plot hols unfolding.
It may be read , as a simple exercice , to makes us think, to have mike the cover of the Penguin Moder Books classic Collages of the Harlem Streets , and Half Bodies, instead of a full complete picture.
In other words, Chester Himes is attempting to transgress, the black and whote portrait of the African American sovereign and create a multi-dimensional introspection of black character with colorful bills.