The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week.
These experts are by far the greatest thinkers of our time.. Watching this interview, takes me back to the campus of Howard University. I can’t pull away. What a phenomenal experience.
I've just seen the movie "Origin"...If the black minds of yesterday helped to build these giants of freedom, literature, and thinking then the future is in good hands.....You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun - James Weldon Johnson
This discussion really digs deep into the meaning of caste, race, and class. This is an extremely important discussion. I wish the world could attend and hear it, and join in and debate, and really pull back the curtains on what’s mostly misunderstood and put into boxes nice little neat boxes that justify the isms that brings out of this caste system.
Michael - all of this academic jargon to bday nothing. Let Isabel with her straight practical un-academic talk You are noise besides this woman!! Shut up let are speak PLEASE
I wonder if Dr. Frances Cress Welsing's seminal research resulting in her published writings The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism and "The Isis Papers" had any influence on Isabel Wilkerson's
Yup, what he said, scabs are wearing off, and we never needed to pull them off, they were coming off, we needed to explain and witness our endurance of pain and the will to thrive.... we are living in a unique era of disclosure and discovery of details about black life...by authors like Isabel Wilkerson
The discussion about visions over policy ideas really hits the nail on the head for me. And I think the right - at least in the UK - is so much better at putting (usually negative) images in people's heads. That our mental images are capable of driving our emotions and narratives is something that politicians and leaders seem to have amnesia about, preferring to have rational and analytical debates - I think Ian McGilchrist is on the money is observing that modern culture is too dominated by the "left brain hemisphere" whose job is to categorise, manipulate (as in grasp and use) and fix as concrete. Education systems reinforce this too. It's a deep and systemic problem... so I lived the combination in this discussion of deep insight with practical action. Anand's book The Persuaders is just brilliant, I can't get enough of this man's thinking...
yes that's the idea .. imagine a future where when your feet hit the floor in the morning you aren't worried about the cost of health care or college .. that you can get paid time off when your kids get sick .. the basics of water food housing safety & security are affordable .. where you can have time off to play with your friends and grill some lunch in the park .. where the level of stress and anxiety are noticeably reduced .. who will tell the story of life after good policy is implemented ??
Love me some Isabel her books are AMAZZING!! Please get her book people white and black as it is soo important for the history of the country- I’m fan boying out myself ❤😊
@eva baltasar , sono Michela, italiana.Ieri ho letto Perḿafrost.In molte frasi ho visto qualcosa di me.Grazie, finalmente un libro scritto con l'anima.Anche io sono piena di vita ma spesso la comprimo nella camera iperbarica del mio corpo, restando ferma o tentando di non sentire per evitare le sofferenze. El que camina se enturbia. El agua corriente no ve las estrellas. El que camina se olvida. Y el que se para sueña.
Gosh child abuse is not "fOrBiDdEn LoVe" * I mean only Russell's novel. I've read too much reviews which described the relationship in the novel like that, romanticizing abuse.
Yes she is one of the best I heard so far because she makes it simple.but you on the other hand is just saying a bunch of big words that not everyone is going to understand what you are saying.and you maybe right and you're right.but I have to pull out a dictionary just to understand you and stop you every three or four minutes just to get to understand what you're saying average people do not understand what you saying I admire you for your knowledge but you can get a lot more across to the people in and just simple words.
I agree! Some conversations are so serious and important that one must lay aside the theatrics and keep it simple. This caste system continues to kill us!🙏
He frequently uses the “big” words inappropriately. He isn’t as smart as he thinks he is. His speech is largely “word salad” and when dissected it doesn’t make much sense to the topics being discussed.
Thank you Isabel Wilkerson for bringing the inhuman Indian Caste system into a strong focus among other important achievements of this book. For all its technological advances, Indian higher castes are proudly upholding this system even specifying desirable caste for a potential bride or groom in the matrimonial classified section of their newspapers. This is almost a neutral example compared to the treatment of the "Untouchable" caste- by the sheer misfortune of birth -who are marked for only cleaning jobs that no one will touch - for their children's entire life also.
This is a dreadful panel that should have included only Dr. Neil Shubin - whose laboratory recently found a new fishapod - and Carl Zimmer. There is no good reason why Dr. Prescod-Weinstein was added to the panel, since she's not a biologist, and frankly, she monopolized most of the time, expressing her interest in promoting a "nonwhite view of science" and why she has to reject her childhood hero Carl Sagan since Sagan was white. There are other, much better, videos that feature only Shubin in conversation with Zimmer. As for the Brooklyn Book Festival, it has had an abysmal record in hosting STEM authors of which this must be seen as the latest, most notorious, example.
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There is no cast system in America. Some south Asian people who came to the USA had the understanding that black Americans were an inférieur race and started treating them like that. They eventually stopped and asked for forgiveness after black people In Houston for example, reacted violently They eventually understood that A/ black will not accept to be treated an inhuman way B/ the laws in American will not tolerate such behaviour C/ the public opinion will not accepte such a conduct In a cast society, there is no legal protection for the lower cast people who happened to be dark skin There is no way for the lower cast to object to inhumaine and humiliating treatment. The public opinion will be against any change. The higher cast will make sure that the lower cast will stay in their place. Black people living in a societies where there is a cast system like India are treated in inhuman ways. Ask africains how they are treated in they own countries by indo-Pakistanis ethnic origin living in theirs countries for century. In the UK often, members of the government indo pakistanais ethnic origin tend to adopt measures against African countries or black people. While living in the USA, I sometimes accounted blacks servants from lower cast brought in American by Middle Eastern families to serve them. Once these families learned that their servants were in contact with black Americans, they would quickly send them the same people were interacting with black but still view them as inferior race and often prohibited any mixed mariage etc. We should be cautious going around saying that the discrimination of black in America is routed in a cast system. That will be like opening a Pandora box. Such a statement will have negative implication for blacks Americans and for blacks around the world… This argument could be use to advocate for race separation and for the destruction of multicultural societies The respects earned by blacks could be taking back. Racism is a varus that have a capacity to contaminate people mind living in Different countries for centuries. Some people can be cured other people leave with the disease without knowing and other can never be cure. Claiming that we have another disease will not cure the one we already have. To paraphrase your guess this théorie of cast in America came from a stew….
Its the American caste system its not identical but you need to go to the beginning to understand. They even have books written by whites telling you the reasoning as well as names places and dates. I had to do research and i went all the way in.
There is not caste as we know in America. Black people in society where there is cast are threatened very differently The behaviour of people originaire from south East Asian living in Africa is way different from the behaviour of white When south East Asian started settling in Houston some of them brought cast practice e.g they would refuse to take money from back people hand etc some black people reacted violently The south East Asian community end up for forgiveness
Loved this video. I wish it went for longer. Maybe next time though put the squares with the people talking a little bigger. It’s nice watching them speak too
My takeaway is how the American caste system perpetuates itself with the white elite cornering 99% of the resources and leaving 1% for blacks and people of color. A hallmark of this caste system is the narrative that blames blacks and people of color, the victims of caste oppression, for their own condition. The story as told from vantage point of blacks reveals they are trapped in circumstances that stack the odds against ever breaking out of their conditions. Meanwhile the white elite escape blame shielded by the oppressor's narrative, often with collusion of church and instruments of the state. Kudos to Prof. Wilkerson for calling spades.
