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You might finish the book to learn.

Learn what? South Asians (non-White) are CEOs all over Silicon Valley (Microsoft, anyone?). The SE Asians and Chinese are equally well-represented and they're not White either. We had a Black President, so I'll finish the book when an Untouchable becomes the leader of India.

For another perspective with a focus on the diverse group of individuals who dismantled the institution of slavery, I refer you to My Swan Lake Life.

Another bot-generated review...

Marilyn, who is that directed at...I don't think I'm a bot, but then, maybe I am part of the matrix...who knows?

So basically this book hurt your feelings?
I mean I just can’t image what it would feel like to actually have to live through it or to be the descendants of it.

Oh wait I do, I’m Black.

And Marylin meant your post was computer generated, duh. Like me thinks the man doth protest too much to be human. Enjoy your Caste.

Hey Ally,
The problem she is writing about is racism. She hit upon the hook of using the Indian caste system which I think is invalid. The caste system is religion based. The examples in the book are examples of racism, plain and simple. She proposes nothing new, just regurgitates same old, same old while pursuing her square peg/round hole thesis.

Mike - Bhimrao Ambedkar, the dalit leader of India, mentioned multiple times in the book, was an instrumental part of our Constitution writing. Just saying. Happened half a century before you guys got a black president.

Well at least you went into it with an open mind 🙄

Mike has never heard of the model minority myth.

Hi! It's tiresome to review some books, this included. Because either you loved it or you're trashed in the comments. But I'm white so, who cares?

Thank you Mike. Great review! Ignore the haters. There is no caste system in the US, and Indians (who do still have the remnants of a caste system) would laugh their collective butts off at the very IDEA that we do have one!

On top of that -- OPRAH? you mean... the woman who is a literal billionaire? owns a multi-media EMPIRE? has 10 houses? THAT oppressed, poor, put-upon woman! at the bottom of the caste system, dontcha know -- middle-aged, obese, dark-skinned black woman from the slums of Chicago! she's SO OPPRESSED, that she's a billionaire!

@Alyssa: no, we are not "hurt" -- we are not like you, finding microagressions in every tiny corner -- but we are perturbed to see reviewers and websites accepting this trash by Wilkerson as "truth" when it's just made up hyperbolic nonsense.

So you think white people can't have "ancestors" or be "descendants"? My relatives died in THE HOLOCAUST -- which was much closer in history to our era than the Old South and slavery. What privilege did they have in the gas chambers?

I have family in rural areas in the Midwest. I see the poverty there, I've been through Appalachia. Do you seriously THINK that YOU -- in your modern urban lifestyle -- with your college degrees and office job -- are WORSE OFF than a single mom in a trailer park in Appalachia?

Most poor people in the US are WHITE.
Most people on welfare in the US are WHITE.

BTW: it is beyond pathetic to claim that every person who disagrees with you is a "bot" or a troll. If so, how do you prove YOU are not a bot or a troll, just for the other side?

This is not even a review, let alone a "great" one. The "reviewer" fails to mention anything specific to the book and even admits to evading only a quarter of its contents.