What's up with the Brotherhood?

            Clifton's sudden appearance and death in Invisible Man raised more questions than answers. Where has he been this whole time? Why didn't he return back to the Brotherhood? Why did he decide to sell the racist Sambo dolls?
           The death of Clifton also leaves the narrator and the reader somewhat torn about what to feel. On one hand, Clifton was selling these Sambo dolls that totally goes against what the whole Brotherhood stood for. On the other hand, the police officer shot and killed Clifton due to his race. The narrator feels a surge of anger when he sees these dolls but he also feels horrified by the fact that the officer killed Clifton. This scene is a lot for both the narrator and us to take in. In the end, the narrator decides to have the funeral event/march/rally for Clifton, choosing to spread the word about Clifton's death from the officer (but not including the detail that he sold racist dolls). But as readers we can understand this choice. Clifton's unjust death isn't the first to happen, so it makes sense for the narrator to decide to spread the word and let the community know of the event to try to get them to take action. However, since the dolls didn't play a key role in the reason why he was shot and the narrator never learned why Clifton decided to sell these dolls, why include that detail? It would just add confusion and make the story focus on a detail that makes the listener miss the point the narrator is trying to spread: an officer killed Clifton because he was black.
            However, the Brotherhood is far less understanding. They see the narrator spreading this story, ignoring the fact that Clifton was selling racist dolls. This part of the book is where it can get a bit confusing. I know from the sense I've gotten from the Brotherhood before this point, I could totally see them choosing to gloss over a detail like the Sambo dolls to use the story to their full advantage. I see the Brotherhood choosing specific goals and then using whatever they have at their disposal to get them to that goal. They, however, are completely disgusted by the fact that the narrator chose to use Clifton's death in this way. And I guess I'm just wondering, why?
            As I've thought about it more and more, I'm starting to wonder if the Brotherhood is not mainly upset because of the dolls (though it still may be a factor), but if instead it's something with either Clifton or the narrator or both. Clifton's disappearance was quite random, and as we talked about at one point in class, it wouldn't be unexpected of the Brotherhood to choose to remove Clifton and not tell the narrator that. Just think, multiple times we have heard about Clifton's violence. The Brotherhood wants to create change with science and words, so they might have decided that Clifton had gone too far in his violence at some point and kicked him out. Or it could be about the narrator. We already got some idea that something was up with the Brotherhood. They have basically ignored the narrator the whole time he's been back in Harlem. Could something have changed their mind about the narrator? Then the narrator stages this march/rally all on his own since the Brotherhood continued to ignore him. Could they have purposely ignored him to see if he would continue on his own, allowing another excuse to get mad at him (since they really seem to want to have an excuse to do that)?
            I'm not sure how many of these ideas could really be true, but I thought I would share them to see what you would think about them and if you have any ideas about why the Brotherhood is acting so strange.