"We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom." Isabel Wilkerson
I am finally back to history after reading 'Hoax' Which covers Fox v Trump. I recommend both. Wilkerson's book is deep, it reminds me of James Baldwin's work.
Race is a social construct, but caste is a reality. Read it.
For those who want to understand and learn read it before commenting.
"Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things."
'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents' Isabel Wilkerson
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and...
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"Slavery was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people. It was an American innovation, an American institution created by and for the benefit of the elites of the dominant caste and enforced by poorer members of the dominant caste who tied their lot to the caste system rather than to their consciences."
"If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?" Taylor Branch