Well this issue has been on my mind alot because alot of people choose to use ignorance when it's really unneccessary. Like alot of people choose the wrong things to say, and they don't know what they are talking about. But they choose to say it anyways. For me, it had alot to do with the way I act and how I potray myself to others. Like as for me, I am a very timid person, friendly and I love making people smile. But to other people I don't act like how I should be acting. Recently, somebody called me "White Wash" according to my personality. If you don't know what that term means, it means that you act WHITE instead of BLACK. And to them, acting white means being educated and not being brawling and arrogant with your behaviour. That really gets to me bcause just because I am not loud , rude and all over the place doesn't mean im " White Wash". I really dispise that term because how can you act like a color? Black people has been degraded back then and just by using that term does not encourage what Martin Luther King has been fighting for this whole time. This ignorance needs to stop because if we keep saying these ignorant things, then as a black african canadian young adult, I will never be respected for who I am. The term "white wash" is so ignorant in so many ways, and its not just that there is many more that needs to be demolished. But I guess it just starts with me, stating that issue and it has to start with you, or there will be no end to ignorance.
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
-Mohandas Ghandi
