Taking Olmos to task

EXCUSE me if I don’t get the premise of Eddie Olmos’ film “Walkout” [“Reborn in East L.A.,” Dec. 25]. The Chicano protests are over, as of 37 years ago, and now Olmos wants to restart them in hopes “that the kids will walk out again.” For what purpose, Eddie?

Hang on a second! Please! Give us the records of 50 to 100 kids who have been denied applications to universities as of this fall. Please let the facts be known! Just because a student is of Latino heritage (Mexican, Salvadoran, Honduran, Peruvian, you name it) does not mean that he or she is being maltreated. How about if filmmakers go inside and see what’s being done and what has been done in our schools instead of inciting protest?

I am disgusted that Edward James Olmos would use his status to impose upon our students an attitude and a stridency that has no place whatsoever today.

MARY LOU PRESTON

Valley Village