Oprah: 'Caste system' in America served as 'template for Nazi Germany'

Television mogul Oprah Winfrey described the United States as having a “caste system” that was the “template for Nazi Germany.”

“How did you decide to focus the book on three caste systems: India, Nazi Germany, and the United States?” Winfrey asked during a discussion on her Apple TV series with Isabel Wilkerson, the author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. “I think a lot of people get riled up and offended that you’re comparing the caste system here to Nazi Germany, yet we discover that we were the template for Nazi Germany.”