Caste: Pillar One

Oprah’s Book Club

Oprah and Apple Books

Society & Culture

3.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Oprah and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson discuss her newest work and Oprah’s Book Club pick, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents. In episode one of the eight part series, Oprah and Isabel consider the first pillar of Caste as outlined in the book, "Divine Will and the Laws of Nature.” Seventeen readers from all walks of life join in the discussion as Isabel answers questions about how God and religion were used to justify the caste system in the United States.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, together with Apple Books, I wanted to welcome you to the Oprah's Book Club podcast.
0:09.6	This eight-part series is devoted to my latest book club selection cast, The Origins of our
0:16.7	Discontents. Now, if you don't have your copy yet, it is so easy to get it on Apple Books.
0:23.9	The app for Apple Books is already right there on your phone or iPad. I'm still shocked when
0:29.2	people don't realize they have it. It's the orange icon with the white book that's open. All right?
0:35.8	You can just hit that, go to Apple Books, and by the time I finish this next sentence,
0:40.8	you could have ordered cast for yourself. So, do that if you don't have the book.
0:47.2	We can all feel that this is an unsettled time. It almost feels like we could be breaking down,
0:54.5	but also broken open. For some, it's really uncomfortable, even painful. For the past couple of
1:00.1	years, the normal order of things is being questioned and ugly truths are being confronted.
1:06.8	But I believe that this shift that we're feeling, if you allow it, is happening to awaken us,
1:12.8	to shake us out of a culture that really never was as normal as we thought to begin with. So,
1:20.3	that's why I feel so strongly that my latest book club selection isabel Wilkerson's book
1:26.2	Cast. Is one of the most important books, not only that I've ever read, and I read a lot of books
1:33.2	in my lifetime, I think it's a must read for all of humanity, those of you who care,
1:39.6	anybody who cares about the future of other human beings, especially for people who care
1:46.5	about how they treat others, people who want to learn and grow and live a more open, harmonious
1:52.1	life, and to understand why we are where we are in our culture and our society and our world.
1:58.8	I'm so excited about the change that this book could bring that I did something I've never done
2:03.4	before. I sent copies to the CEOs of Fortune 100 companies to the governors of all 50 states,
2:09.2	the mayors of America's largest cities, the presidents of HBCUs and other major universities and
2:14.4	colleges, as well as team owners for the NFL, the NBA, the WNBA, and also the heads of large media
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