Who Benefits from your Ignorance?
Without education and curiosity, where do we stand? Who stands to benefit from Ignorance? Above: Harriet Tubman I recently read (and loved) Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert, a fictional novel by Bob the Drag Queen. I was very intrigued by this quote in particular, which is said by the Harriet Tubman in regards to literacy among enslaved people in the United States: "The folks that could afford slaves were sure as hell not fighting in the war. Instead, it was poor and uneducated white people, and Blacks being convinced or forced by the ones with all the money. You gotta keep folks ignorant if you wanna control them. That's why they didn't want us reading or writing ." - from Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert by Bob the Drag Queen , emphasis mine This idea of keeping people ignorant in order to control them is a disturbing one, and I think one that we see at play a lot in our current landscape. As I have read more books this year, I have recognized a common thread about e...
