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Revisiting America’s Caste System (with Isabel Wilkerson)
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The Not Wanting to Be the Bottom Rung
I think you even have a chapter or a section entitled the necessity of the bottom rung. It helps certain people perpetuate their power. The questioners on the left were unseeing, and yet so certain what they had not considered was that the people voting this way were in fact, voting their interests. Maintaining the cast system as it had always been was in their interest. And some were willing to accept short term discomfort, forego health insurance, contamination of the water and air, and even die, to protect their long term interests in the hierarchy as they had known it.
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