In the story "Battle Royal," the first chapter of The Invisible Man, how does Ellison challenge the respectability of the southern white male?

In his first chapter which suggests that the narrator will
find himself as invisible to others in society, Ralph Ellison portrays cigar-smoking
white businessmen who have merely exploited the male blacks as well as a cupie-doll
woman with a tattoo of the American flag on her, whom they put into the ring in order to
appeal to the young black males as a sexual object as they slug each other in the battle
royal.  Seated around the ring, the white businessmen taunt the young black males until
they swing wildly at each other.

When this spectacle is
finished, Ellison's narrator has been called upon to speak regarding his schlarship
which he has received.  Believing that his speech will be well received by his
"sponsor," and associateds.  Believing that his speech will be well received by his
sponsor and his associates, the narrator is ignored as the men smoke their cigars and
talk while he tries to speak, as though he were invisible.