Isabel Wilkerson — This History is Long; This History Is Deep
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I Was Overwhelmed With the Things That I Was Discovering
A lot of this actually, it's out there, but it's not commonly known. On both sides of this cast system, or this divide, there was not much incentive for any one to talk about it. It takes time to overcome the unconscious absorption of the cass system into which they had been raised and born. And so that's one of the reasons why people might not have known about these things. I almost, it borders almost on if it weren't so deadly and and sad, it would be almost absurd....
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