Olmos: We need to love all our sides
On November 9, 2011, Edward James Olmos who played Admiral Adama in Battlestar Galactica, spoke as part of the Tanner Forum on Social Ethics at Salt Lake Community College’s Grand Theater. Students, staff, faculty and community members filled the theater to hear Olmos. The title of the talk was “We’re All in the Same Gang.”
“We Latinos, we don’t like half of ourselves,” says Olmos. “Get over it.” We need to love all of our sides.
Olmos says that he is proud to be 100 percent Chicano and proud to be an American. He also recognizes his Hungarian ancestry.
“I love my Europeaness. I love my Indigenousness,” says Olmos. He wouldn’t be who he is without it.
Olmos traces the history of people all the way back to Africa. Those ancestors migrated through Asia, over the Bering Strait, into North and South America essentially making all of us related.
He says that He says that his African, Asian, Indigenous, European ancestry is what makes him proud.
“We are all one,” says Olmos. “We are closer together than we ever thought.”
Race is used as a divisive word when it should bring us together.
“The key is the unification of us,” says Olmos. “Battlestar was all about us coming together.” It would be better if we could come together before imminent destruction forces us to.
Read Olmos: There is only one race -- the human race.
Read Olmos’ opinion on Occupy Wall Street.
This article was originally published at examiner.com.
“We Latinos, we don’t like half of ourselves,” says Olmos. “Get over it.” We need to love all of our sides.
Olmos says that he is proud to be 100 percent Chicano and proud to be an American. He also recognizes his Hungarian ancestry.
“I love my Europeaness. I love my Indigenousness,” says Olmos. He wouldn’t be who he is without it.
Olmos traces the history of people all the way back to Africa. Those ancestors migrated through Asia, over the Bering Strait, into North and South America essentially making all of us related.
He says that He says that his African, Asian, Indigenous, European ancestry is what makes him proud.
“We are all one,” says Olmos. “We are closer together than we ever thought.”
Race is used as a divisive word when it should bring us together.
“The key is the unification of us,” says Olmos. “Battlestar was all about us coming together.” It would be better if we could come together before imminent destruction forces us to.
Read Olmos: There is only one race -- the human race.
Read Olmos’ opinion on Occupy Wall Street.
This article was originally published at examiner.com.