Posted on 08/07/2020 9:05:50 PM PDT by simpson96
(CNN)Oprah says her latest book club pick "might well save us." So the media mogul is sending 500 copies to the nation's governors, mayors, CEOs and college professors. The book is "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Oprah announced on Tuesday that it was her latest selection for her long-running book club -- and that it was the most important one yet.
"This is a book for all of humanity and it is necessary for people who are leaders in our country to understand the origins of our discontent and what caste really means," she said on "CBS This Morning," adding that she was sending the book to leaders across the nation. "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" examines race in the United States as a social hierarchy, with African Americans confined to the bottom. The book defines racism in the country as an American caste system, comparing it to social hierarchical systems in India and Nazi Germany.
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President Barack Obama awarded Wilkerson the 2015 National Humanities Medal.
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I wonder what the H1B CEO are going to think of that...
This is a Mao8st push. I expect a civil war in corporations involving Chinese and Hindus. Democrats are going Maoist
There is one thing for sure: she has NEVER been to India.
Than 99.9999% of everyone who has ever lived since the beginning of time.
Flipping through channels last night and the O was on interviewing whites about racism...clicked over as fast as I could...but the jist was the O wanted whites to acknowledge that their life was easier because of being white. Isn’t that the very definition of racism? Assumptions, accusations, prejudice...strange how an (oppressed) black billionaire is leading the charge...
Easier than what? Hers? LOL!
Look, it's always "easier" to be a member of the majority culture. In China it's easier to be Chinese than Vietnamese, I'm sure. In Vietnam, it's easier to be Vietnamese than Chinese, I betcha. In Brazil, it's probably easier to be Brazilian than Russian. In Nigeria, it's easier to be Nigerian than Italian. And so on. It makes a few small things easier. You blend in, you speak the dialect... That's life. Either deal with it, or go somewhere where you can make some other minority miserable.
White guilt] was the only reason she thinks she is rich....
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