"Niggas Love Not To Know"

Niggas love not to know. Simple. And no one put it better than Chris Rock. The other day I had a conversation with someone who I think I might have expected too much from based on the age and the amount of ambition I estimated this person to have based on their major.

What I realized from this conversation which I should have realized before is I was giving this person, who I will further refer to as Kool-Aid (for no particular reason), too much credit. In fact, they told me, "Hey I'm just a regular person, I don't know what you expect from me." It honestly wasn’t that I expected any particular smidgens of knowledge from this person, I think it was the magnitude for learning and the openness for knowledge that I was expecting, but I was abruptly proved wrong.

I think what I was expecting an absence of confused looks and the "why the fuck is she talking about this?" look. But Kool-Aid took it to the next level. Instead of holding his thoughts to himself, and remaining just ignorant to that particular piece of knowledge, he said, "well I don't know, I just know...." and right there is when I realized I was talking to a Nigga.

Kool-Aid went on to break the scenario down into some simpleton ass situation. And it wasn’t that he was a nigga because he didn’t know, or laughed off that he didn’t know. He wasn’t even a nigga because his joke became somewhat lewd (I was far from impressed).Kool-Aid was a nigga because he didn’t embrace the knowledge, and unlike everyone else at the table, he had to take it that step further and profess that he didn’t know. What happened to the plain shoulder shrug and the awkward silence?

After all, why is ignorance still cool? Why is ignorance still cool in college, the one place in the world where being intelligent has never been more in? This was just one situation but I have come across and will come across many people that just don’t know, and won’t know. I think it is a matter of capacity and how much information they are willing to take in.