Oprah Winfrey reveals "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" as latest book club pick

Oprah Winfrey announced "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by author Isabel Wilkerson as her newest book club selection. Winfrey and Gayle King discuss the book's timely message about understanding inequality and finding common ground with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

[@kindnesstoall]

Caste needs to be a must read in schools.

[@janicekemoli1041]

False barriers. Wow. This book is what humanity needs.🇰🇪💃🏽😊

[@cpitchford0821]

I bought it and I love it

[@neeshespieces]

I doubt our CEOs or governors or leaders are gonna really read it.

[@Beehighfive]

The Hodge twins made a video for Oprah. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGUh4uerLJlpJo

[@angeliabrooks2895]

Our Mayor of Birmingham Alabama asked our PWI to read this book and that is how I learned about it. I think some leaders might read it.

[@hustler3of4culture3]

This book ignores Native Americans, Chinese Americans, Hispanic Americans, and the way in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that Irish Americans and Italian Americans and all immigrants from "the low countries" in Europe were also treated by the largely Protestant and Catholic (State of Maryland) hegemony in the United States. If you just look at New Orleans and the Creole system, there were many delineations, not a Bipolar one. Wilkerson also says she was surprised to discover that the Nazis used Jim crow laws as a template for their own. Any college graduate knows this. America's racism has NEVER been Bipolar. This book ignores so much. Sad.

[@patriciaj.williamssisterly9169]

What an amazing and revealing book and a powerfully beautiful movie (Origin)

[@Solmom03]

These comments are ridiculous but mainly from people who don’t read or think they know everything already... I can’t wait to get my copy!

[@sacredsquirrel1643]

Brainwashed.

[@MrRichMurphy]

Opra supported President Julius Malema. In South Africa when they were kelling whyte farmers. kzbin.info/www/bejne/opKThYWnhbKXi7s he says “ o poor babies” when asked about the genocide.

[@hustler3of4culture3]

The country has never been Bipolar. There have always been Native Americans, and black people, and later the Chinese and the Creole and Hispanics, there have been all sorts of hierarchies in the racist system. She ignores this.

[@sudhacarawraunaccaw4659]

It has generated extraordinary reverberations among the global Intelligentsia... looking forward to place an order for the book from Amazon, and I request Indian readers to tell me if kind enough the price of the book in Rupees pl🙏

[@khiam1956]

All human all over earth need to read or hear about this book...because every where there is hidden

[@msv177]

Connecting the dots.

[@tamikaqueen1203]

Oprah I'm sad as I read this book. The woman that wrote this book is brilliant!!

[@eeyumpeeyum]

Actually, Sex and the City (Season 2) in an episode entitled ‘The Caste System’, kinda talked about a caste-driven American society. Hehe!

[@naegwut]

Agreed

[@clayannsaid9396]

All ya need is LOVE

[@stopglobalswarming]

I love White People.

[@ericworiax1277]

The Jesus kind ...

[@ZMSportsnShorts]

Winfrey 2024

[@sir7707]

I wonder if she will send me a book.

[@margueritechatelier4080]

Please read!

[@ChrysanthsMum]

I can only laugh at them. Please remember, rubber bands snap back.

[@Beehighfive]

Another Message to Oprah from "Hard Core Country." kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHa0kqp4qNKZsMU Enjoy.

[@Pradeep.Singh.d]

You can take Indian out, but you can't take caste out of an indian. Sad truth of indian society. Defaming india and indian on foreign land.

[@eComy]

Caste is a graded slavery, still persists in an rigid form, easily anyone can see untouchables are underrepresented and compelled to live in extreme poverty, physically segregated despite they have earned money. Jai bheem

[@narieee2543]

I'm not even American nor am I black or white. But the mere fact that the author who happens to be black could speak out against the alleged "dominant class" negates her very proposition..

[@Beehighfive]

Here is the story they don't tell. bitchute.com/embed/sxO14KC1AX9L/ "White Slavery, The Privilege They Erased From History." by Dana Ashlie.

[@soulsurvivorla]

So you've already read the book?

[@tiffanypeppers9417]

It's not about Oprah...its about Anglo Saxons always get more praise or and better treatment than any other color in U.S. If I were Anglo Saxon I would feel attacked too. Please don't feel offended. But ask is...could this have any validity...!?!?

[@Beehighfive]

See my name. It's real. I'm Anglo Saxon or what some people call a W.A.S.P. For some that is as offensive as being called the n word because that was the purpose of calling us the derogatory word. We can be tracked to the 5th century in Great Britain. When you refer to us as Anglo Saxon your referring to our Ancestry as a tribe not our race. Not all white people are considered Anglo Saxon. The Irish and Dutch don't consider themselves Anglo Saxon nor do the Catholics or Jews even though they are white. Do you think all these white people had lives all peaces and roses? Did you learn anything in school about white slavery? I don't think you did because it wasn't in the history books. White people are proud people despite the horrors they lived through. The difference is we don't have a race card to pull out. We suffered the crimes against us silently and didn't play the victim. Oprah is an embarrassment to her race and the white people apologizing for their white privilege are dumb people. bitchute.com/embed/sxO14KC1AX9L/ "White Slavery, The Privilege They Erased From History." Dana Ashlie. I have never seen Anglo Saxon or any other white people get more praise of better treatment then another race and I'm 60. Most of the time the only way an Anglo Saxon can be identified is by their surname. Be proud of who are Tiffany. You can do anything you set your mind to. Don't let rich black women convince you that you are victim because of the color of you skin. The Hodge Twins made a video for Oprah. I hope you watch to the end. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGUh4uerLJlpJo

[@jaja5929]

👍👍

[@hook4116]

Here’s a good place to start if y’all wanna blame someone for y’all’s problems

[@exeterline1930]

Apparently, she doesn't know which group to pander to to get richer.

[@comptonproduction]

She's cut from a Different mold that the rest of us.

[@Beehighfive]

The Hodge Twins made a video for Oprah. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGUh4uerLJlpJo

[@gokdude]

The only reason casteism exists today is because pseudo-philanthropists or opinionated ‘archaeologists’ fit some form of paradelia to the explicitly complex social structure of nature, citing the bias of previous anathema. This paradelia does not differentiate the natural stratification of people of high-quality jobs and people scarce of meaningful work. This is not to say that people lacking in experience cannot rise through their self-actualization to positions of influence, as we can clearly see by social media influencers. This is also not to say that affluence rids people of their bad deeds, i.e. homosexual persecution in Islamic states or the Uighur Muslim plight in China. The problem, and this is not new to you, is that you promote a mental narrative which provides an image of a black man being lynched, making your adherents reactive in nature to ANYTHING you might have to say. You do NOT speak for Indians, you do NOT speak for the united citizens of this country, and your WORDS do NOT come from a place of divinity or understanding. The TRUTH is, that any people anywhere can uplift themselves and the entire world through empathy and understanding, and these are the moral values in Indian culture. No matter what religion, atheist, animist, etc.- if you are dedicated to your human responsibilities and rights in codex, you will not promote the division of peoples first. You would first unite, if you had ANY common intellectual ground with Absolute Truth.

[@sterlingferguson1704]

You are talking about a class system and not caste.

[@gokdude]

bobdol69 Just because I used above-average vocabulary you did not understand does not mean I spoke in platitudes. My stance is that they are perpetuating a false narrative that caste ideology developed in India. It is a flat out lazy lie.

[@gokdude]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/omKsoKSpe9qBm8U just watched this after replying. I am not the only person with these views.

[@andyvilleda1451]

🍕🍕🍕🍕

[@nghtwtchmn129]

A multi-millionaire and a billionaire complaining about oppression.

[@edglebennett6312]

Why not?

[@ericworiax1277]

Digging up stuff that provides a past ugly history that does what good for a constructive future. That history isn't now and is isolating, were our world has plenty of such tragic history.

[@ericworiax1277]

@@edglebennett6312 , benefits who...creates a paradigm of blessings where and for whom...

[@clayannsaid9396]

Making the $$$$$$$

[@gildedliberty6090]

@@ericworiax1277 Yeah, nope. Otherwise, leave the statues up.

[@heatherthompson91]

Oprah Winfrey , Are you going to send it to minsters?

[@ericworiax1277]

Why? They have the answer that could save America's issues. Unfortunately ,God has given us free will and many still support BLM ,and 1619 when but undermine the true Christ provided Word.

[@Beehighfive]

She will most likely be sending all the proceeds to whoever Biden picks. Possibly Susan Rice. This is all about the 2020 election. What ever it takes they will do anything necessary to steal the election. The best way to do it is the keep the race war going. Don't fall for it. There is no such thing as White Privilege. bitchute.com/embed/sxO14KC1AX9L/ "White Slavery, The Privilege They Erased From History." Dana Ashlie

[@Beehighfive]

ATTENTION CBS MORNING SHOW: DID GAYLE KING AND THE PRODUCERS TELL YOU NOT TO REPORT THIS STORY? THAT IS WHAT I HEARD. KILLER IS BLACK SO DO NOT AIR THIS. KILLER IS BLACK. KILLER ASSASSINATED A 5 YEAR OLD BOY. DO NOT REPORT. DO NOT REPORT. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jn-4kGuCobWim7M #JusticeForCannon #SaveTheChildren ATTENTION CBS THIS MORNING: WHY DO YOU COVER UP THE CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN? THE GREAT AWAKENING.

[@splow25]

No social distancing between Gayle and Oprah? Lol

[@mattd501]

They both got tested and she had been in quarantine for awhile. Its on Instagram

[@MrRichMurphy]

Opra supported President Julius Malema. In South Africa when they were kelling whyte farmers. kzbin.info/www/bejne/opKThYWnhbKXi7s he says “ o poor babies” when asked about the genocide.

[@Beehighfive]

@@mattd501 They are lovers.

[@Beehighfive]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e56wfZJnesqIr9k #OprahKnew

[@eComy]

Jai bheem

[@Beehighfive]

Hey Oprah, the Hodge Twins have a video for you. It's Awesome, please check it out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGUh4uerLJlpJo

[@VISHALRAJ-zf5yt]

196 casteist shown their presence here.

[@redskyatnight123]

No call her part of the swamp

[@Iquey]

The euphoria of hate? Hmm. Idk. Group psychosis of hate maybe. It's not exciting or energizing for me. Maybe I hate some people but it's usually on an individual basis. I hate certain kinds of attitudes, the Karens, the people who abuse the working class and service sector employees. But this isn't based on race. So it's not as easy to pinpoint or act on. Racism requires making an many generalizations that end up to be false and harm many innocent people so that's why we have to work to rip it out of our institutions. Question rules that seem arbitrary, or only there to serve one segment of people, or level of access. Ask how can systems be made more fair, more equitable, and less biased.

[@mrsmarietracy]

The Hodge Twins talk about Oprah here:

[@syn707]

Poor little rich girls...tsk tsk tsk!

[@sudarshangondane5158]

Jai Bhim

[@KAILASHKUMAR-dr8ku]

Now then a book gives us the factual causes . Caste in India is the real root .

[@rexbanner7256]

Why can I not report this straight up racism?

[@Beehighfive]

I'm still looking for my privilege. bitchute.com/embed/sxO14KC1AX9L/ "White Privilege, The Privilege They Erased From History." by Dana Ashlie. Everyone white person needs to watch this so they wake up to being hoodwinked by Oprah and her racist followers.

[@sunshinecoolwater3960]

Two rich lesbians try to make a narrative on morning tv news.

[@Beehighfive]

The Hodge twins made a video of Oprah. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGUh4uerLJlpJo

[@bubbag8895]

Someone doesn't know what a caste system is.

[@bubbag8895]

@Jennifer Ellison by birth is ones lot decided.. can't have a racial caste system when literally every job is open to any race. Oprah is ignorant

[@Beehighfive]

bitchute.com/embed/sxO14KC1AX9L/ "White Slaver, The Privilege They Erased From History." by Dana Ashlie

[@Beehighfive]

The Hodge Twins made a Video for Oprah. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGUh4uerLJlpJo

[@bubbag8895]

@Jennifer Ellison caste system n. a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity More at Wordnik from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

[@bubbag8895]

It's pretty straight forward

[@hustler3of4culture3]

She could just say class system instead of caste system and I might have more respect for her. She is essentializing what it means to be black and that is never how it should be. This is the most non intersectional book I've heard about in a while.

[@sushilpurushotham4804]

Systemic racism and the caste system are not the same. They are similar, but should not be treated as one and the same. The caste system is also not an umbrella term for systemic racism in the U.S. to be listed under. It is a distinct issue.

[@Beehighfive]

The Hodge Twins made a video for Oprah. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mYGUh4uerLJlpJo

[@Beehighfive]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e56wfZJnesqIr9k #Oprahknew

[@sterlingferguson1704]

A caste system existed in India and the people are all the same color. There is a big difference between racism and caste.

[@kamartaj3010]

But caste system is worse than racism. Where certain people Dalits/ untouchables are treated worse than animal

[@Beehighfive]

CBS This Morning, Gayle King, Oprah, WE ALL KNOW YOUR SECRETS. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e56wfZJnesqIr9k Keep changing the subject. Keep creating a race war. You won't shut us up because we will keep bringing the topic back to #EndHumanTrafficking.

[@coolmishime]

Jail times coming I hope you’re ready.

[@sicknezz4457]

She only pushing her book she don’t care about nothing but her money

[@fatherfinger]

EPSTEIN! THE 2 LOVERS T0GETH3R.,..

[@MrRichMurphy]

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[@janetcerny1275]

Not practicing social distancing or wearing masks.

[@cmccarter8]

I think she is still visiting Oprah. Gayle and the CBS camera crew had to quarantine in Oprah’s guest house for 2 weeks before they could even see her. So that would explain the lack of masks and social distancing.

[@kenh.5903]

I want oprah to go to the poorest areas of Appalachia and tell those people about their privilege. No real human being could do that.

[@sterlingferguson1704]

What you are talking about is the white caste system.

[@yasminmcewen3749]

While this is probably an important book to be read, personally, and I don't mean to be disrespectful, for me "Caste", is not any sort of a New Idea at all. Not in any way. It has lived on for Centuries. And I'm surprised that the Caste system in India and Germany and certain other Countries-Middle East-North Korea-China (mass genocide taking place right now against the Uighers-nobody cares!) If a person living in America as a Minority, doesn't already know that there is basically a set Caste system rooted in failure, and hasn't struggled with it their whole lives--then I don't know exactly where that particular minority has been residing. Certainly not in the U.S. One thing in particular that I disagree with is this idea of "the house-basement" metaphor-and here's why: 1) Real Poverty means you don't have ANY House at all therefore there is no Basement to fix. 2) In our Culture, a popular thing to do is take someone else's words and turn them upside down and claim that as your own new big idea. It happens ALL the time. I am not a fan of it. This House Metaphor has already famously made it's debut by Greta Thunberg and her House metaphor is way better. There is always the "burning house"-metaphor everyone is already familiar with. That is timeless. Sadly, this has been done to me. A person never recovers. 3) SO MUCH OF AMERICA is already trapped in Economic Caste systems designed by Capitalists to insure multitudes of the middle and lower classes regardless of RACE-this means EVERYONE-are now fighting against an onslaught of tidal waves of defeat that no-one can truly rise up from. The Corporate HR strategy of hiring and firing hundreds of people, at the click of an email-based on various nonrelated factors having nothing to do with a person's ability to do that Job! The very way that Human Resource Corporations now own the opportunity based solely on: Credit Score/Facebook-Social Media/References/Background Check ALL Requirements that are oftentimes skewed and or wrong and openly discriminate. Banking Constraints--Housing/Rental Constraints-1st month's Rent plus Last month's Rent plus Deposit-plus Moving expenses plus clean Credit report-(Credit Reporting is basic Modern day Slavery imposed on EVERYONE-)- The very FACT that decent Medical Care is VERY hard to get-practically impossible for A LOT of people. The FACT that being Poor leads to CRIME-The FACT that Our Country is falling down into suffering of the multitudes with no way to rise above it. These are all a type of Caste System regardless of RACE. I do not agree that we all have inherent racism in our bones. And that does not make me a racist. At a certain point, people need to be allowed to move past Race. Just care for one another regardless of skin tone and get on with HUMANITY AS A WHOLE moving forward. I'm not saying Race doesn't matter, not in any way; I just think this premise of everyone being rooted down and unable to rise up from the sins of centuries past isn't helpful. And YES, Black Lives Matter! To me they Matter A LOT! That is why all of what is and has been occurring for such a long time feels so overwhelming. I don't think this book will make me feel better about what I already know. I just wish that our society would acknowledge the Colorless Caste System of Corporate Greed and Economic Punishment that has become an insurmountable Mountain that very few people can actually climb. "Caste", is probably a fine book. And it will open people's minds. I hope so. Will this knowledge change much? Not too sure about that. The Author seems very sincere & kind-hearted 🌞🌷🌸 ~

[@gokdude]

I just realized you blame capitalism for economic disparity. It is a free market. It’s what we want so that we can create our own value in society and teach the next generation that. But I strongly urge you to look into unfair business practices and lobbyism, crowd funding under false pretense and political action commitee donation fraud. Etcetera que çera, çera for the misguided- they are just abusing our willpower and labor to stop us from creating value in our communities via outreach and social programs. We already HAVE all of that. It is just behind the curtain of lies the media feeds us. We have to take our problems TO government, so that they are visible. We should not create the problems and then ask for a bail out. Sound familiar???????????????????? K thanks, don’t let the door made in unsafe working conditions hit you on your way out, commies. Also other countries lie to their civilians about the evils of America and then they come here thinking that the solution they want at home will definitely work here because they’re free to speak against our Constitution the way they do. Executive order said huuuuhh no more! Together we stand, divided we fall.

[@Beehighfive]

People do care Yasmin. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKaVlIx3aZ1_mNk bitchute.com/embed/sxO14KC1AX9L/ "White Slavery, The Privilege They Erased From History." Dana Ashlie

[@coolmishime]

How many kids did you sell the Harvey Weinstein!

[@sicknezz4457]

Boycott opera

[@williamwigton4270]

any one else notice how big oprah is here ?

[@hurricane567]

Caste system? “systemic racism” and “microaggressions"? She's met Clarance Thomas, right?

[@kristinediaz9404]

wowwwww. Such a lie

[@Johnnyboybravo]

What a sick woman.

[@skyrocketcoast219]

Oprah can affrord to be sooooo woke

[@32broward]

3 black women on Tv in America, complaining America is racist..... how do they not see the irony?

[@Robert-kt8cu]

HARVEY WEINSTEIN'S OLD PAL OPRAH;THE PERSONIFICATION OF WHITE PRIVILEGE WINFREY said: “There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people-the caste system that’s been put in place”. “But they still, no matter where they are on the rung or ladder of success, they still have their whiteness.” Even though SHE was poor when young, WINFREY, whose net worth is over $2.6 BILLION, is now TOO far REMOVED, she’s TOO PRIVILEGED HERSELF to speak about working-class people of ANY COLOR. HOW did SHE get here, anyway? OPRAH, who is worth nearly $3BILLION, one of the BIGGEST media moguls in US history, and probably the WEALTHIEST black woman on the PLANET by a WIDE margin. RATHER, isn’t SHE a TESTAMENT to what a person CAN ACCOMPLISH with DILIGENCE, HARD WORK, SELF-DISCIPLINE, a bit of SMARTS and capturing a few PRIVILEGES along the way? WHERE else is a person MORE free to put THOSE traits on display and PROSPER than in the UNITED STATES? In WHAT other country could OPRAH HAVE taken her shot with what SHE knew and what SHE was capable of and become as POWERFUL as SHE is and a BILLIONAIRE almost THREE TIMES OVER? How is Oprah’s FINGER-POINTING and RANTING about ‘WHITE privilege’ at ALL dealing with the MORE SERIOUS issues that are WORTH DISCUSSING and FIGHTING for TODAY? SHE enjoyed the FREEDOM PRIVILEGE of THIS COUNTRY to BECOME RICH HERSELF and she is BLACK. So the COLOR of your SKIN is NOT a PRIVILEGE. YOUR OWN EDUCATION, LUCK, SKILLSET and AMBITION IS WHAT MAKES YOU. STOP propagating the LIES and WAKE up OUT of your WOKEness DREAM."

[@lisme271]

Wow, I was blown to realize she is evil racist. Sad