I argue against the mainstream views of ignorance and the lack of true beliefs as a necessary condition for an x to qualify as ignorance. I argue that the lack of true belief condition is not compatible with ignorance instances developed by critical theorists, for example white ignorance. I then conclude that we should seek a perspective that does not use the lack of true belief as a condition for an x to be an instance of ignorance. I propose instead the Potentia view of ignorance, focusing on the lack of epistemic agency in the ignorant subject, which can be formulated as: S is ignorant of P iff S has the potentia to know that P. I defend that the Potentia view has many advantages, one of them being to be compatible with critical theories such as white ignorance.