General Motors has donated $3 million to the Smithsonian Latino Center’s Molina Family Latino Gallery, which is described as the “first dedicated museum space celebrating the U.S. Latino experience.”
In a press release issued Wednesday, GM said its $3 million donation would be used to support national educational programs for underprivileged youth, some of which will take place at the Learning Lounge located inside the Molina Family Latino Gallery.
“This programming will engage the community, enhance lifelong learning, and increase awareness and access to their collections and resources in the arts, humanities and STEM,” the automaker said in a statement. “The Lounge will also offer intergenerational literacy and bilingual online resources focused on history and the arts.”
The money for this grant will come out of the automaker’s Justice and Inclusion Fund, which the automaker has so far used to support 20 nonprofit organizations and help more than 2.7 million people since it was first established in 2020.
Eduardo Díaz, director of the Smithsonian Latino Center, thanked GM for supporting the Smithsonian Laton Center’s efforts to preserve Latin American history.
“The Smithsonian Latino Center is grateful for the contribution made by General Motors, which will help us bring to life a space dedicated to preserving and paying homage to the historical and cultural legacy of Latinos in the U.S.,” Díaz said. “Latinos are an integral part of U.S. society, and we are proud to work with organizations such as GM that are supporting the creation of a space that will feature and honor their dynamic stories at a national level.”
GM also announced a $125,000 grant for the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) this month, which is described as an “educational nonprofit maximizing underrepresented youth’s potential for success in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).” Like the Smithsonian Latino Center donation, the DAPCEP grant is part of GM’s efforts to become a more inclusive and diverse company and to support equality in the United States.
The Learning Lounge and the Molina Family Latino Gallery will open to visitors once construction is complete in the spring of 2022.
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… and then to GM workers who help they earning money, receives a very low salary in Brasil, not able to pay a Life
Very woke of gm, Brandon will be proud!
… GM … next Time you are throwing money out of window this building in Detroit
please think of the Animals needing Treatment, care, like Tigers, Lions, Elephants, Rhinos, Hippos etc
your Heart will feel better
No surprise. I’m sure that money couldn’t help the people whose lives were ruined from the tornadoes. Great investment GM.
Helping whites doesn’t have the flair and cachet of donating to a grievance group.
Better if funds were donated to Kentucky families hurt by tornadoes.
disagree, they know has them, and even the 3 Pig Tale says… but they continue making houses of wood instead solid concrete.
at my own think here all those Animals in Africa, for example Lions, USA people take a rifle, a gun and shot them in safari farms… the population of Elephants down 62 % … humans are still 8 billions,,, so a more balance care for Animals should have been taken
You learn speakee English won day?
And the Virtual Signaling of the Year award goes to ……..
Is that Flo from progressive I see there in the picture?!?!
You cant make this crap up. GM is just virtue signaling . What about the White Family gallery-you know the people who invented the automobile and built it into an industry that changed the world!!!
That’s the truth. We should have a white guy walk out. See how much gets done that day. And while they’re at it, remove anything that was invented, developed, or built by us.
Last i knew, Mr. Sloan, Mr. Kettering, Mr. Ford, Mr. Chrysler, the Dodge brothers… all white males.
Sensitive white males going woke themselves because something GM been doing for years of handing money to certain groups because I’m sure Latinos buy plenty of GM products for sure.
I think their new logo is the beginning of them being known as “Little gm”.
OFFS…. enough with the pandering to the “woke” Left, and their non-white supporters.
THEY ALL BUY NISSANS ANYWAY.
It’s about time for a timely end to “woke”
By Victor Davis Hanson 12-13-21–
The “woke” movement was giddy after Jan. 20. The left controlled both houses of Congress.
Joe Biden was drafted as the necessary veneer of 1980s Democratic normality to ram through an otherwise hard-left agenda.
All the major cultural, financial, economic, entertainment, and media institutions had played various roles in seeing then-President Donald Trump not just defeated, but also impeached, twice. He was written off as persona non grata after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
So, academia, corporate boardrooms, Hollywood, the media, the Pentagon, professional sports teams, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street in near-hysterical fashion all boarded the woke train. All boasted of ferreting out “white rage,” and hiring legions of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” czars.
Critical race theory would be mainstreamed to excise racism and discrimination by embracing racism and discrimination.
“Crime” was to be seen now mostly as a construct created by the elite to protect their own privilege, prerogatives, and property. Shoplifting, looting, and street thuggery were just part of living in a normal city.
“Social justice warriors” could replace defunded police. Gone would be most bail, incarceration, mandatory jail time, stop-and-frisk, and broken-windows deterrent policies.
Green agendas, the left hoped, would fundamentally transform America in putting an immediate stop to man-made “climate change.” So, lots of oil and gas leases were either canceled or their fees vastly increased. Pipelines were stopped. Gas and oil companies were warned that everything from lack of financing to new regulations would soon put them out of business. The golden age of wind and batteries was already upon us.
Modern monetary theorists assured us that printing money would “spread the wealth” and devalue the cash of undeserving capitalists who had too much of it. Printing more cash, they believed, would implant it in the hands of the needy who unfairly had too little.
To the extent inflation followed, it would be a good thing, they hoped, a sign of a newly empowered and robust consumer class long denied “equity.”
COVID was virtually over. We were assured by President Biden that Trump had killed more than 350,000 Americans with his lax health policies. In contrast, Biden would soberly vaccinate us all, claiming the vaccine’s efficacy as his own. He predicted victory over the virus by the Fourth of July. The Delta variant was still then just an obscure rumor from abroad.
The border would be opened—and stay open. No more walls. As citizens of the world, the left welcomed 2 million immigrants who arrived illegally without audit or vaccinations during a pandemic.
As the woke drove terrified old liberal Democrats into hiding, all the old wisdom about human nature vanished. Forget that criminals hurt the poor the most. Discard the quaint idea of Martin Luther King Jr. that our character, not our color, determines who we are. Ignore the passé idea that inflation eats away at the wages of the working class.
We could always resume the quarantines, lockdowns, and shutdowns that made Amazon, Target, Walmart, and other conglomerates hundreds of billions in profit while the mom-and-pop small businesses went broke.
So, what did the people conclude 10 months out from the woke getting their wishes?
The polls reveal that voters don’t like open borders at all. They disapprove of illegal immigration as much they support legal immigrants. They worry about crime and drugs. They don’t want the unvetted and unvaccinated flowing across their borders.
The people want cheaper, not pricier gas. They prefer U.S. energy self-sufficiency. Why, with cup in hand, go begging to Saudi Arabia and Russia to pump more supposedly Satanic oil?
The people like the police and they hate crime. Even the rich among the woke are now scared—some of whom sowed the wind of decriminalization and are themselves reaping the whirlwind of crime.
Most voters care less about our color, but far more about our character. They think a meritocracy, not quotas and tribal chauvinism, explains the exceptional American standard of life.
They despise inflation as much as recession, and fear they may now get both.
Freedom-loving individuals don’t like cancel culture, ostracism, iconoclasm, Trotskyization, and commissars. They prefer free speech and treasure the Bill of Rights.
So, in just 10 months, the left got what it wanted. And the people are becoming not just sick of what has followed, but disgusted. They are terrified that the left isn’t just failing, but also wrecking the country and them along with it.
The ages have left us adages for the people’s growing anger at the hubristic and now unpopular left. We know the ancient warnings variously as, “What comes around, goes around,” “You reap what you sow,” “Be careful about what you wish for,” and “The law of unintended consequences.”
Words such as “nemesis” and “karma” also come to mind. But of the collapse of the woke appeal, perhaps we could say, “It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of zealots.”
The truth will hurt them. And if you think we are better off now than 2 years ago your either a fool or a liar.
It damned well better hurt them. The left’s insufferable malarky is squeezing the life out of all of us. It is unequivocally destroying the USA. To buy in is to put the entire country in peril.