IGNORance

Andrea Burns Post 15 Ignorance: the lacking in knowledge, learning, information Synonyms: blindness, innocence, oblivion, insensitivity, unawareness Antonyms: cultivation, education, experience, intelligence A major concept discussed in class was the idea of ignorance versus n. Though its not found in the actual definition, I found it interesting that the begining of the word is ignore. Even though its only defined to be the lacking of information, the term indeed does imply that a person is responsible for their ignorance because it's a lack of learning. A person is capable of educating themselves. Naive, on the other hand, is the lacking of experience. A person cannot make themselves have life experiences, making them unresponsible. To me, I think the white privilage is ignorance. We have the ability to be ignorant to the racial issues which revolve around us. They do not involve us, so we can choose to look away if we wish. If we wish to seperate ourselves from the problem and carry on as if none of it happens, we can. That is the ultimate white privilage. Those who exercise this right should be considered a racist. However, racist is too strong of a word to use for every person that is white because they in some way benefit from the system. Rather, the racists are the ones who benefit from the society by looking away from the issues and ignoring them.