June 2012
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Celia Cruz voted to be in upcoming Smithsonian exhibit
Celia Cruz on stage at the Kennedy Center October 15, 2001. (Photo/Getty Images)After more than 11,000 votes cast, the winner of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History’s Frame an Iconic American contest is Celia Cruz. Voters chose the Cuban-American singer among four other important figures in U.S. history. The artist of the project will be the same as the one in associated exhibition, “Pushing Boundaries: Portraits by artist Robert Weingarten,” which will host 15 inspirational Americans, including Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The first Latino president of the United States already has been born. →
cnn.com
Henry Cisneros, the former San Antonio mayor who was secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration, made the suggestion three years ago in an interview with the Spanish-language news service EFE.
“I don’t know if he or she’s in elementary school or in law school or is already elected … to public office, but I believe that that person is already alive, and we’re 20 years or less away from having a Latino or Latina president,” said Cisneros, whose own path to higher office may have been derailed by personal scandal and who today is executive chairman of CityView, an urban development investment firm.
When the day comes that Cisneros predicted, the man or woman behind the resolute desk in the Oval Office will represent an ever-increasing segment of the population. Latinos (or Hispanics, the official government term) made up 15.5% of the U.S. population in 2010, but by 2050 they’re projected to approach 25% of the population.
In case you were wondering why ethnic programs are getting canceled. In case you were wondering why the right is so desperate to eliminate immigration. In case you we’re wondering why the Spanish language is seen as “evil”. In case you were wondering why the Dream Act hasn’t passed. The right is scared of that 25%. Too bad those over 50 million latin@s currently living in the Unites States are virtually unstoppable now. I can’t wait to see the first Latino president.
The more they keep fuckin with Latin@s the more likely the new political regime will be Liberal.
here’s the ‘personal scandal’ cisneros was a part of (plead guilty and fired by prez clinton) for those who may not have been born then….;)
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”
—Audre Lorde
