Caste

Question 1

What’s significant about 2022

Answer 1

The U.S. will have been a nation for as long as enslavement (on this soil) lasted.

Question 2

What’s significant about 2111

Answer 2

African American’s will have been free (in the US) for as long as they had been enslaved.

Question 3

What are the 8 essential Pillars of a Caste system

Answer 3

o 1 “Divine Will” i.e. the role of religion
o 2 Heritability
o 3 Endogamy and Control of Mating
o 4 Purity vs. Pollution
o 5 Occupational Hierarchy
o 6 Dehumanization and Stigma
o 7 Terror as Enforcement; Cruelty to Control
o 8 Inherent Superiority vs. Inherent Inferiority

Question 4

Why did the Nazi’s send researchers to the U.S. (and Britain)

Answer 4

To study exactly how they had subjugated African Americans: anti-miscegenation laws, jim-crow (segregation) laws, etc

American Eugenicists wrote books that were hugely popular so much so that they were used in the Nazi’s text books!

Question 5

What’s the other book where Wilkerson popularized her use of the term “caste” (in contrast to using the terms: racism and supremacy)?

Answer 5

The Warmth of Other Suns (now 10+ years old)

Question 6

What’s significant about 2042

Answer 6

White Americans will cease to be the dominant group in America.