Play Book Tag discussion

This is a very important book. By using caste to discuss the history of racism in America, Wilkerson makes it easy to see and understand why racism still rages through America and why the presidential election of 2016 went the way it did. The comparisons to Nazi Germany are both shocking and thought provoking. The Nazis looked at American laws as a model for their treatment of the Jews. In modern Germany, there are no statues or memorials to Hitler or the Nazis. In America, the Confederacy is still honored and revered through much of the south. But the book is not only about the current state of affairs, it is a historic look at the "pillars of caste" and how they have persisted through 12 generations of slavery, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, the elections of Obama and Trump, and the COVID crisis. Wilkerson doesn't paint a very pretty picture of the future. She points to the year 2042, when it is anticipated that white people will become a minority in America. What will the dominant caste do to stay in power? (What are they doing now to stay in power?)