Racial Justice Action from your UUFH Allies for Racial Equity (ARE) Team

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Racial Justice Action 1/27/2021

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson 

Sponsored by Hendersonville First Congregational Church UCC and led by John Ariatti and Karla Miller Tuesday, February 9th @ 2pm. (we will meet for 6 weeks)

To sign up or for more information, please contact John Ariatti, jja28739@nullgmail.com

A book study on Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s new book which points to our entire social structure as an unrecognized caste system. Wilkerson notes that we tend to refer to slavery as a “sad, dark chapter” in America when in fact it lasted for hundreds of years—but in order to maintain a social order and an “economy whose bottom gear was torture” it was necessary to give blacks the lowest possible status. Whites in turn got top status. In between came the middle castes of “Asians, Latinos, indigenous people, and immigrants of African descent” to fill out the originally bipolar hierarchy. As Wilkerson develops her argument, she brings in historical figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Satchel Paige. She even looks at the Nazis, who turned to us when they were seeking ways to institutionalize racism in the Third Reich. — Chris Schluep, Amazon

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