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The Ideologies of the Brotherhood in Invisible Man       And he had hardly settled himself when he stared at my desk, saying, What you got there, Brother?  and pointed toward a troop of my papers.  I leaned slowly back in my chair, looking him in the eye.  Thats my work, I said coldly, determined to stop any interference from the start.   But I look on that, he said, pointing, his eyes beginning to blaze, that there.   Its work, I said, all my work.   Is that too?  he said, pointing to Brother Tarps leg link.   Thats just a personal present, Brother,  I said.  What could I do for you?   That aint what I asked you, Brother.  What is it?   I picked up the link and held it toward him, the metal oily and strangely skinlike now with the slanting sun entering the window.  Would you care to examine it, Brother?  adept of our members wore it nineteen years on the chain gang.   Hell no He recoiled.   i mean, no, thank you.  In fact, Brother, i dont think we ought to have such things roughly   You think so,  I said.  And just why?   Because I dont think we ought to dramatize our differences.   Im not dramatizing anything, its my personal property that happens to be lying on my desk. But flock can see it   Thats true, I said.  But I think its a good reminder of what our movement is fighting against.   No, suh  he said, shaking his head, no, suh  Thats the worse diversity of thing for Brotherhood - because we want to make folks think of things we have in common.  Thats what makes Brotherhood.  We have to change this way we have of always talking active how different we are.  In the Brotherhood, we are all brother.   I was amused.  He was obviously disturbed by something deeper than a need to forget differences.  Fear was in his eyes.  I never thought of it just that way, Brother,  I said, dangling the iron between my finger and thumb. But you want to think about it, he said.  We have to find out ourselves.