Our presence is somehow there, whether we see it or not. This notion of invisibility, then, lay at the foundation of the way whiteness functions in society. We watch the March, and we watch the movie, and we see black faces. Blackness is the presence on the screen. Blackness, then, is the presence in all matters of race.
Race is about the black struggle.
When we think about race we think about black people. Blackness is the presence, on the screen, in our minds. Whiteness, on the other hand, is merely the absence of blackness. Whiteness is the one who can sit on the other side of the screen and feel detached from what is going on at the March, in the Hood. Race remains a matter of the mind for white people, never a matter of the body, never a matter of one's own skin color.