Comments on: Edward James Olmos, Battlestar Galactica, the U.N., and race

By: Tracing Center » Edward James Olmos on the fiction of race

Tracing Center » Edward James Olmos on the fiction of race — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:28:19 +0000

[...] Today is the first anniversary of remarks by actor and activist Edward James Olmos at the United Nations about the idea of race as a social fiction. [...]

By: Edward James Olmos on the fiction of race | The Living Consequences

Edward James Olmos on the fiction of race | The Living Consequences — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:12:35 +0000

[...] Today is the first anniversary of remarks by actor and activist Edward James Olmos at the United Nations about the idea of race as a social fiction. [...]

By: gabs

gabs — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:50:27 +0000

Hey, I read the excerpt and must say I totally agree with Edward James Olmos. Race is not biological and looking through out the years, who is what category and the names of each category has changed. Since, race is ever changing, lets hope that one day it will change so much that we will not look at people and judge them according to their “race”. I agree that the younger generation is more open to looking past race, however we are not fully there. I took a class in school where we learned about how and why people get discriminated against and how a large group of people can be manipulated to follow one person. It was a vary interesting class and it opened up my eyes. I think that all schools need to offer courses like this. Yet it should not stop there. It should all start in the home, because how their parents are is how the kid is going to be, like the saying the apple does’t fall far from the tree.