This articles focuses on the idea of the 4% Universe, which comes from the fact that humans exist in a cosmos to which only 4.9% is perceptible to them. This fact was taken by Science writer and Professor, Richard Panek as an embrace of the nearly 95% of darkness which contains knowledge and discovery. This idea of embracing “darkness” or the “95%”is applied to a variety of social and political contexts including anti-blackness and introspection.