[Peace] Series on Race on WILL-TV

[patton paul]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Kranich, Kimberlie wrote:

> Beginning this Friday (July 11) and for the next three Fridays at 9pm,
> WILL-TV, Urbana, will carry a three-part series on race called "Race: The
> Power of an Illusion."
> The first two episodes are briefly described below.
> Friday, July 11, 9:00pm "The Differences Between Us"
> The first episode examines several discoveries that illustrate why humans
> cannot be subdivided into races, and reveals that there are no
> characteristics, no traits - not even one gene - that distinguish all
> members of one 'race' from all members of another.
>
> Friday, July 18, 9:00pm, "The Story We Tell"
> Ancient peoples stigmatized 'others' on the grounds of language, custom,
> class and especially religion, but they did not sort people into races. 'The
> Story We Tell' traces the origins of the racial idea to the European
> conquest of the Americas and to the American slave system, the first ever
> where all the slaves shared a physical trait: dark skin.
> Part 2 of 3 In Stereo (CC)

Will anybody be taping this?  I would like to see it, but have awful TV
reception.
-Paul P.