The Main Idea Of Caste By Isabel Wilkerson

In Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, I think that the main idea is that America is collapsing and our new generations are supposed to fix it. To me, the message of this passage is that our ancestors have put up this system of hierarchy that tore them apart and is affecting us today. I feel as if this system is what helped cause the present racial problems. Wilkerson says that this hierarchy system is artificial, made to make a group of people feel less than another. Without this system, things might not be the way they are, perhaps America wouldn’t be collapsing.

On page 16, Willerson says “Live with it long enough, and the unthinkable becomes normal”. She is saying that we can get used to some strange things just by being around them for a long

the idea being that you cannot fix a problem until and unless you can see it.” This idea means that you can’t fix things you don’t see as broken. I like this because I am constantly trying to fix things that are not broken. I might be writing an essay for English, and a small part of me says that I should fix this, because I can do better. I end up rewriting and rewriting, trying to fix something that was never broken. This quote also reminds me that the first step of getting help is admitting that you need help. You cannot get the help you need if you feel like you don't need it to begin

Everyday someone is called out or hated against or put down because of their skin color. Caste also happens everyday, in the same way that racism does.

When school boards oppose Critical Race Theory, it feels like they are not teaching a piece of American history. If kids learned that “... race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category… ” They might be able to move past some of the racism we see in school systems today.

The banning of books is something I am against in general. I can understand why some parents push to have books banned, like maybe they want to protect their kids from early exposure and whatever, but what happens when you kid goes off in to the real world and not everything is