"I still find it incredible that we still use word “race” as a cultural determinant… I detest what..."

“I still find it incredible that we still use word “race” as a cultural determinant… I detest what we’ve done to ourselves. Out of a need to make ourselves different from one another, we’ve made the word “race” a way of expressing culture. There’s no such thing… I just heard one of the most prolific statements done by one of the great humanitarians, he’s really trying to organize and bring us together, and he used the word “race” as if there is a Latino race, an Asian race, an indigenous race, a Caucasian race. There’s no such thing as a Latino race. There never has been. There never will be. There’s only one race, and that’s what the show brought out. That is the human race, period.”



- A special BSG Panel was held at the UN, where leaders from the different United Nations Councils showed clips from the show and discussed the shows importance in attacking the same issues they fight on a daily basis. A forum for discussion was then opened to some cast members and creators of the show, EJO was one of them. During the panel a Council Leader used the word “race” when speaking of the UN Charter on Human Rights, which lead to the following remarks by Edward James Olmos (via trouvailles-de-rwatuny)

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