The Souls of the Black Folk: Ignorance is Bliss

"...for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know" (28).

Ignorance is bliss. However cliche this statement may be, it has been proven true. It has not been proven true for all of mankind; however, but just the white man. Knowledge raises awareness and provokes the questioning of what is. Sadly enough, white people have historically used this to their advantage. By keeping black people uneducated, they also made black people unaware that they should even question the current way of life. Education, therefore, became a powerful tool used by the white people. How funny to think of education as something violent and capable of destruction, and how sad to think that there was a time when black people didn't know that they were being mistreated and abused.