Olmos: There's only one race, the human race
Edward James Olmos, actor from “Miami Vice” and Tony Award winner for “Zoot Suit,” was on the Salt Lake Community College South City Campus for the Tanner Forum on Social Ethics on Nov. 9, 2011. He talked with the media before he was scheduled to be on the Grand Theater stage.
Olmos shared several ideas during his time at the campus, but the title of his talk was “We’re all in the Same Gang.”
“There’s only one race – the human race,” says Olmos. There are many cultures but only one race.
Olmos says that racial separation makes it easier to kill each other.
“When a bug doesn’t like you, that’s racial discrimination,” says Olmos. “When a person doesn’t like you because of your skin color, that’s discrimination.”
He says that the key for today is how similar we are.
“We don’t have a clear look at the indigenous, Asian, or Latino influence in the arts,” says Olmos. The media portrays fewer members on television and in the movies than there are percentage-wise in our country. “We’re getting there, and it’s inevitable that we will get there.”
Olmos also talked about the audio-visual medium and the power that it has and says that documenting the human condition is important.
Read Olmos’ opinion on Occupy Wall Street.
Read Olmos on unity inside and out.
This article was originally published at examiner.com.
Olmos shared several ideas during his time at the campus, but the title of his talk was “We’re all in the Same Gang.”
“There’s only one race – the human race,” says Olmos. There are many cultures but only one race.
Olmos says that racial separation makes it easier to kill each other.
“When a bug doesn’t like you, that’s racial discrimination,” says Olmos. “When a person doesn’t like you because of your skin color, that’s discrimination.”
He says that the key for today is how similar we are.
“We don’t have a clear look at the indigenous, Asian, or Latino influence in the arts,” says Olmos. The media portrays fewer members on television and in the movies than there are percentage-wise in our country. “We’re getting there, and it’s inevitable that we will get there.”
Olmos also talked about the audio-visual medium and the power that it has and says that documenting the human condition is important.
Read Olmos’ opinion on Occupy Wall Street.
Read Olmos on unity inside and out.
This article was originally published at examiner.com.