Movie Matinee Celebrate Black History

Join us as we celebrate African American heritage. Today we will view Origin, which reveals some of the truths about racism and its far-reaching expanse. Isabel Wilkerson sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery as she writes Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Wilkerson is consulted for her opinion after the murder of Trayvon Martin. She explores the idea of how race may not be the only determining factor in bigotry, since, e.g., in India, everyone may be of the same "race", but bigotry still occurs by caste. Similarly, although Jews of European descent may have been considered "white" in some parts of the world, in Nazi Germany they were defined as an inferior race to be exterminated. Wilkerson visits Germany and debates friends about how slavery compared with the Holocaust, "subjugation" versus "extermination".

Adults. Registration is not required.