Educated Ignorance
Dear: Senate Council or to whom it may concern. During Halloween season, My Professor decided that he would have a dress up day for his students. The assignment was to dress up as your favorite or maybe well-known figure in political history. I decided to dress as Angela Davis (well known for her actions in the Black Panther Party during the Sixties) and my friend decided to dress as Sojourner Truth. Many people dressed as many different well-known and not so well known figures. My friend and I thought we had chosen people that renowned for their efforts in the Abolition of Slavery and The Civil Rights Movement. However we were proven drastically wrong. When we stood proudly to announce whom we dressed as, we were greeted with blank expressions and silent stares. No one in the entire class Except for my friend, the professor and I, knew the people we tried to represent, however, during a normal class period, the professor would ask us to identify people who played an insignificant part in history, by comparison standards, and at least five people would raise their hand. That day I was truly saddened by my counterpart’s lack of knowledge of their history. The ignorance did not stop there. Through out the rest of the day, I ma
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