“You don’t escape trauma by ignoring it. You escape trauma by confronting it.” I recently watched “Origin” and was deeply moved by the powerful storytelling of author Isabel Wilkerson’s journey writing her Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.” For me, one of the most heart-wrenching scenes told the story of a little Black boy on a winning baseball team who was not allowed to swim in a pool with his White teammates. Eventually, he was put in a float and pulled around the pool with strict instructions not to touch the water. That vignette haunts me still - what did that experience mean to that little boy? How do his teammates understand it? What did that teach the children watching this happen? The other element that struck me was how much Wilkerson’s personal life drove and intersected with her research. Too often, we compartmentalize personal from our professional lives—but what power there is when we bring them together as she did. Overall, to me, the film (and Wilkerson’s book) reiterates how the barriers we face in the U.S. don’t exist in isolation: they are built off of and influenced by others all around the world. I definitely would recommend you add this powerful film to your summer watch list if you haven’t seen it yet.
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3wWell said. We saw the film too. I was moved to tears by anger, hurt, shame and the joy of it. Isabel Wilkerson is such a great story teller because she tells the story from her heart. She tells our story, the one others want to silence. And also much gratitude and accolades go to Ava Duvernay for sharing the story without Hollywood filters!