The Role Of Ignorance In Nat Turner, By Kyle Baker

To some minute extent ignorance can be a bliss, but it can also be a tyranny. The simple explanation for stupidity is not willing to learn or ask questions on what we do not understand. On the other hand, ignorance is much more detrimental and can be defined as not having a willingness to learn and educate ourselves on things that are crucial to humans. These crucial things can be as basic as writing and reading. We cannot always attribute ignorance to willingness, but also other external factors like society and time. As it is mentioned in the Nat turner graphic novel by Kyle Baker, slaves were not allowed to read or write any book whatsoever. In the preface of the book, Baker asks and answer a crucial question--- “If slaves were selected and bred for size and strength, slave masters must very quickly have found themselves by their bigger, stronger slave population. …show more content…
at the time of slavery, oppression was the reason why the minds of the slaves was being manipulated. Even in this circumstances, we have seen Nat turner as a defiant and eager to read and learn. In addition, we can also see the case of Fredric Douglas. He was a slave who thought himself how to read and finally break out of slavery and become a statesman and abolitionist. However, in today’s society, what possible explanation can be given as to why black people are getting manipulated and demonized? This short essay will try to answer why black folks are racial disparaged by attributing it to the lack of