Why did Ralph Ellison use blindness as a theme in his novel 'Invisible Man'?

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Ralph Ellison used blindness as a theme because he wanted to show that people do not want to see certain things, that they have the control to choose if they want to acknowledge him or not; by acknowledging Invisible Man they are giving him an identity. I think that Ralph also used the theme to show that both black and white people refuse to see him and not only white.
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