Ask the GM VP of Corporate Responsibility and Diversity

[LeftHander]

What he thinks of "Barack the Magic Negro" as heard (twice I understand) on Rush Limbaugh's show. Ask if this is the kind of "entertainment" GM is committed to sponsoring. Seems to counter the goals that he specifically states on the GM corporate web page. If they will not tolerate this sort of speech in the workplace then why would they support it with advertising dollars.



“By valuing and respecting differences and similarities in the workplace, we will be in a better position to win in the marketplace. It is our goal to recruit and retain diverse talent that reflects our global customers and create the environment where everyone can fully contribute in creating great GM products and services.”
—Rod Gillum, Vice President, Corporate Responsibility & Diversity

Lets ask Rod how he feels as a African American who has achieved a high degree of sucess in corporate America how he feels about "Barack the Magic Negro".

http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/workplace/400_diversity/index.html

This will surely get to him:

Rod Gillum
Corporate Responsibility and Diversity
General Motors Corporation
P.O. Box 33170
Detroit, MI 48232-5170

How about CC-ing Charles too....I am sure he would appreciate input:

Charles Carridine
Director, Sales and Marketing (Multicultural, Women, Youth and GLBT)

I wonder who is in charge of sales to Right Wing Racists, Bigots and Drug Addicts...

From GM's website:

General Motors reflects the world in its multicultural workforce who are a critical link between the workplace and the marketplace. Moreover, employees' talents and diverse perspectives help GM drive innovation, understand the global marketplace, develop better products and deliver better services.

GM is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. In addition to GM's commitment to comply with state and federal laws protecting individual civil rights, the company has a widely distributed written policy on equal employment opportunity and harassment. Harassment based on age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity/expression is a violation of this policy. Harassment should be understood to mean a single incident or a pattern of behavior where the purpose, or the effect, is to create a hostile, offensive, or intimidating workplace environment.

Harassment may encompass a wide range of behaviors, which include, but are not limited to, derogatory comments that are gender-based (inclusive of behavior directed at an individual’s gender identity/expression), racial, religious, sexual, ethnic or disability-based in nature. Harassment also includes unwanted sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. The policy clearly states there will not be any retaliation against employees who bring harassment to the attention of appropriate management.

I have owned several GM cars in the past but I can say with 100% certainty that I will not purchase a GM vehicle as long as they continue to support entertainment that degrades the human condition of anyone. Racists and bigots will continue to drive and purchase GM products regardless of what GM does. But a LARGE PORTION of this population would feel ashamed to support a company that directly funds divisive and derogatory entertainment such as what is presented on Mr. Limbaugh's program.

Obviously their current sales strategy is faltering in the marketplace as GM has fallen behind another car company as the leading automaker in the world. If GM is regain it's composure, a great place to start is by dumping sponsorship of the Rush Limbaugh show and promoting other more inclusive forms of entertainment and by promoting themselves as they do on their website...something I was pleasently surprised at.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Good answer.

Two excellent pressure points to manipulate.

[youngdem]

2. An Uncle Tom has no say so in policy decisions on the Plantation

Funny to rub it in his face though.

[1776Forever]

3. I could not agree more with you!

Where is the outrage for this kind of idiocy! Rush is as low as they go!!!!!!!!! He would sell his mother for a song!!!!!!:hurts:

Take a look at this for more incite on where GM is going, and how their future is going to push out U.S. good paying jobs more then they all ready have!:

Todd Lassa reported April 19, 2007 in Motor Trend Community, Trading places: GM moves out while Toyota moves in Motor Trend Community on line (April 19, 2007) stated the following on this subject that furthers the theory:

http://blogs.motortrend.com/6207834/editorial/trading-p...

Bottom line is that it's a global market, and automakers are moving to where they can find relatively cheap labor - in the U.S. for Toyota, in China, India and Poland for GM. It's going to be harder to call GM an American company in the coming years if you still scoff at Toyota's efforts to be considered such.
:wow:

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And finally: Iacocca Sounds Off On Today's Leaders on the CBS News website:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/19/sunday/main2704953.shtml

Charismatic Former Chrysler Chairman Wonders "Where Have All The Leaders Gone?"

He's not mellow at all in his new book, "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" The straight-shooting Iacocca is back taking aim at overpaid CEOs and his successors at Chrysler.

As CEO of the struggling Chrysler, Iacocca made headlines by cutting his salary to $1 a year. He calls today's CEO salaries "scandalous." The reason it happens, he said, is greed.

"Greed. Of the seven sins is only one that I worry about," he said. "Greed."

Of course, in 1986, Iacocca himself was the highest-paid CEO in America, pulling in a $20 million paycheck, after Chrysler stock soared. But that he says was "pay for performance."

Iacocca thinks that his former company's recent merger with the German company Daimler was a disaster. "How could they take Walter Chrysler's venerable company and name it after a German?" he writes." But Iacocca admits it was his own hand-picked successor, Robert Eaton, who helped engineer the merger.

Here's to a true patriot! Lee Iacocca

:yourock:

[IChing]

4. The Inside Story of How General Motors Helped Mobilize the Third Reich

In a 1934 letter to Roosevelt´s Industrial Advisory Board, Sloan (head of GM) complained bitterly that the New Deal was attempting to change the rules of business so "government and not industry constitute the final authority." In Sloan´s view, GM was bigger than mere governments, and its corporate executives were vastly more suited to decision-making than "politicians" and bureaucrats who he felt were profoundly unqualified to run the country. Government officials, Sloan believed, merely catered to voters and prospered from backroom deals.
>>>>snip


GM moved quickly
(to help Nazi Germany) — in conjunction with its close ally Standard Oil (EXXON). Each company took a one-quarter share of the Reich ethyl operation, while I.G. Farben, the giant German chemical conglomerate, controlled the remaining 50 percent.

The plants were built. The Americans supplied the technical know-how. Captured German records reviewed decades later by a U.S. Senate investigating committee found this wartime admission by the Nazis: “Without lead-tetraethyl, the present method of warfare would be unthinkable.”

Years after the war, Nazi armaments chief Albert Speer told a congressional investigator that Germany could not have attempted its September 1939 Blitzkrieg of Poland without the performance-boosting additive.



Part 1: http://hnn.us/articles/37935.html
Part 2: http://hnn.us/articles/37935.htmlPart 2: http://hnn.us/articles/38255.html

GM's history speaks for itself

[maxrandb]

5. Don't forget. It's not just "Barrack the Magic Negro"

Rush repeatedly refers to Barrack O'bama as a "Halfrican".

Rush thought Donovan McNabb was only a good quarterback because the NFL wanted a black to succeed.

Rush once told a black caller to "take that bone out of your nose and call me back"

Rush recently asked why should young black Americans be angry, "the governments taken care of them their whole lives"

Rush used to run a "Aids Update" where he would mention someone that died of AIDS to applause and cheering.

Rush repeatedly calls those that don't agree with him "anti-American terror supporters invested in the defeat of the United States".

Rush refers to those asking for equal rights and protection for woman "Feminazi's".

The list goes on and on. GM had to know what they were getting into. At least ESPN was smart enough to drop him like a hot potato.