Isabel Wilkerson: U.S. Caste System Influences Immigration, Abortion, Racism
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Just yesterday, Seattle became the first U.S. city to pass a measure banning discrimination based on caste. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson, the death of Tyre Nichols is just the latest tragedy to shine a light on America's long-standing but unspoken social hierarchy. In her recent Time Magazine cover story Wilkerson states, “From Jan. 6 to Tyre Nichols, American life is still defined by caste." She tells Michel how the system continues to infringe on the rights of the marginalized.
Originally aired on February 22, 2023.
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I always thought race the way we see it here and now started with Bacon’s Rebellion. Wealthy people did not want us working together. They still don't.
In some areas, differences were based on dialect... then the British came and started LISTS!
@Alpha Omega of course they did, but wow!😮💨
Ms Wilkerson.. please try writing books on
Hindu genocides in Pakistan post 1947..
Hindu genocides in Bangladesh post 1970
Hindu genocides in Jammu and Kashmir post 1950
Hindu genocides in Sri Lanka post 1980..
...
Let us know the castes in each case
Wealthy people? Are you impoverished?
@@imperialmotoring3789 I was referring to the time of Bacon’s Rebellion 1676-1677. Why is my socioeconomic status important regarding that historical event?
The British and Patriots remaining committed genocide on the Native Americans, First Nation People, to answer Michelle's question about where Hitler was inspired to kill Jewish people in Germany. This fact coincides with statements Hitler made to American leaders and the public atlarge while he was alive. Please remember to highlight how much Native American, First Nation People have endured and continue to suffer in their communities, reservations and within the system. Non Native people have their children removed from a stable family member simply because a white family is adamant about adopting a Native American child. The case is now at the United States Supreme Court for review and would remove familial and rights from Native American, First Nation People in cases of adoption. Compassion, transparency, integrity and accountability for all!
There are some of us who are partially Native American.
yes and the case was won just the other week !
The country is relatively new but the Ancestors have been here for thousands of years.
"All men [human beings] are created equal . . . life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Beautiful Jeffersonian sentiment, but neither he nor we ever meant it, did we?
Ah, but would it be better had he been honest and appealed to notions of caste and said that his kind (landowning white men) deserved the full rights of British citizens, but others not so much? Or as it stands an ideal that he and others couldn't and wouldn't live up to in their lifetimes, but is worthy of inspiration to everyone, including "untouchables"?
Similar to the Statue of Liberty poem, "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," while enacting policies that would prevent Chinese females (who happened to be non-Christian) from coming to the U.S. as well as people of other undesirable origins.
It was a pleasure of listening to your guests
This author is a genius!!! READ HER BOOK!!!
Before the word Caste was known to India and Indians, we were well used to the word Jāti -- a typical Sanskrit word that naturally stood for category. If you had studied the history of India, this categorization was akin to what the Brits & Americans (or Generally the West or the White man) were used to -- excepting that in India the Jātis generally DID NOT have the connotation that breathed polarizing hatred in the West. The White man, who was jealous of the prevailing harmony in India, and who was desirous of creating chaos saw the way to breathe hatred among the peoples of India by translating the word Jāti (or Category) as Caste and impuned a negative tone or connotation to the idea of categories. They sort of succeeded but not to the extent that they were accustomed to in their own lands. I can write more on this, but you should have seen my point. In today's West, the issue based on Cast-ing has taken on a great dimension like madam Isabel Wilkerson had rightly painted. This is a great example of the proverb "you reap what you sow!" -- this cancerous growth can never be removed -- except by self realization & by practicing what the likes of Buddha(from India), Jesus, Gandhi (MKG), King (MLK) and a whole host of Seers across our Mother Earth have been insisting us to do -- Love thy Neighbors! But the greedy men of wealth and power will continue to remain blind and deaf to the value of values.
VERY TRUE, Well responded They need to know the TRUTH
This isn't India -- this is America, & we shouldn't be having a caste system of ANY sort. Such a thing goes against the ideas that form the very fabric of society! :-(
But, it IS caste. Whenever their is a hierarchy, it is a caste system. It's in India, America, and it was in Nazi Germany. If you haven't read her brilliant book, please do. Another enlightening book is "Fantasyland - How America Went Haywire." by Kurt Anderson. It covers the last 500 years of American history.
Yet we do. Names my be different but the system we use in the states is hauntingly the same
Ms Wilkerson.. please try writing books on
Hindu genocides in Pakistan post 1947..
Hindu genocides in Bangladesh post 1970
Hindu genocides in Jammu and Kashmir post 1950
Hindu genocides in Sri Lanka post 1980..
...
Let us know the castes in each case
@@YenkammaNe
Those instances had to do with vermin control and not caste.
It’s always a pleasure to see Ms. Wilkerson. I learned so much from her books “The Warmth of Other Suns” and “Caste”.
Disgusting
Ms Wilkerson.. please try writing books on
Hindu genocides in Pakistan post 1947..
Hindu genocides in Bangladesh post 1970
Hindu genocides in Jammu and Kashmir post 1950
Hindu genocides in Sri Lanka post 1980..
...
Let us know the castes in each case
She is a Genius ❤❤❤
She is talking about things she knows and experiences, and it's so true.
She does a great job of explaining, indirectly, why STATUS change and PROCLAIMING YOUR NATIONALITY is important. The so called US Caste system is based on RACE only which is only based on phenotype, what you look like. So unless you IDENTIFY PROPERLY AKA IN YOUR PROPER PERSON AKA IN PROPRIO PERSONA they will presume you are whatever benefits them.
America and India are two of the same!! My sister looks white and I look black but we both have same parents. However, she has no degree and did not graduate from HS however her salary is almost as much as mines even though I have a masters and getting my law degree now. Everything people do in this world is based on COLOR!!!! True
That wasn't her point. The use of Nazi Germany and India were to show that similar things were occurring to people on the bottom who looked like those in charge.
The question that needs to be addressed, foreseeing 2045 (demographic change) is how NOT to continue a caste system. For it wouldn't be hard to maintain a caste system. What changes that could happen in a modified caste system would be changing the parameters from race/appearance of the individual to another parameter, maybe not as visible yet controllable. Considering our current society of vigilance and control through our eletronic devices and cameras, that wouldn't be that diffcult to do.
What is often omitted from the discussion and consideration is that Britain shipped many of it's convicts and misfits/inferior class not only to Australia but to America as well. Do we assume all of the founding fathers were noble aristocrats
Paulo Freire, the famouse pedagogy academic, has said that the oppressed embraces to become the oppressor, such is the case of Tyre Nichols death.
Raleigh NC
I just saw the movie _Origin_ in Raleigh, based on her personal life, research and writing of this book. I think tomorrow (Wednesday) is its last day in the theater due to almost no one watching it this past week or two. There's other Black-led movies that came out recently like the excellent comedy-redemption story _The Book of Clarence_ and the part comedy, part family tragedy _American Fiction_ that may be competing for audiences, and perhaps lack of publicity for the first two. Ideally, people seeing _The Color Purple_ should have seen trailers for these other movies.
The trailer I remembered was for _The American Society of Magical Negroes._ Whew.
Is caste being used instead of tribe?
Ms Wilkerson.. please try writing books on
Hindu genocides in Pakistan post 1947..
Hindu genocides in Bangladesh post 1970
Hindu genocides in Jammu and Kashmir post 1950
Hindu genocides in Sri Lanka post 1980..
...
Let us know the castes in each case
@@YenkammaNe Maybe she could write about Jewish Space Lasers, but that's not the pressing issue in a U.S. struggling to survive with justice and decency.
No comparison. Tribe is horizontal, Caste is vertical.
It does not matter how big or small a human is. Whether they are a zygote or fully grown, they have a right to life.
But you're willing to enslave woman to assure that. since you want to take away their bodily autonomy. Zygotes are not a human beings to many of us.
@@tradeprosper5002 First, it is nonsense to suggest that the law never tells people what they can or cannot do with their bodies. In fact, there are many things which people are not legally allowed to do with their bodies. To name just a few, they cannot sell them for sex, or sell their organs to people who need transplants, or put certain drugs into their bodies.
@@toriwade8073 When did I day that they law never tells people what they can or cannot do? Typical strawman argument. You want to force a woman commit 9 months of her life to give birth against her will and without compensation.
@@tradeprosper5002 Second, statements like this ignore the fact that, by any rational standard, the unborn child is a separate individual from its mother.
@@toriwade8073 At what point does it become an individual? Sorry, I don't consider a zygote, an embryo or an early stage fetus to be an "unborn child", a human being or an individual. The old standard was birth and then viability which does not occur till around 24 weeks. By saying life starts at conception, you take an extremist position.
Ms Wilkerson.. please try writing books on
Hindu genocides in Pakistan post 1947..
Hindu genocides in Bangladesh post 1970
Hindu genocides in Jammu and Kashmir post 1950
Hindu genocides in Sri Lanka post 1980..
...
Let us know the castes in each case
Oh brother.
This has merit, Americas already understand this , though many don't want the label of racist.
These people are insane…
Who are you talking about?
“…creating a new form, a new aspect, of human interaction with enslavement.” Obviously this person knows little about human history if she thinks slavery was invented by the United States. (facepalm)
It all about keeping people in their place that those bigots decide what the place should be