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January 20, 2010
HARLEM 4 WAKES UP HARLEM
By Profesor Martin Danenberg
"El Quijote del GED"
WHO SCORED 77 POINTS AGAINST DR. J IN NEW YORK CITY AND NEVER MADE IT TO THE NBA AND WHY?
It was so great to see the Apollo Theater on the business card of Harlem 4 Center for Change. My late friend, Mark Warren, was the director of many shows at the Apollo Theater and my GED students and I, over a decade ago, were given a tour by Mark as he prepared one of the "Amateur Night" shows. Mark has passed on, but I used to talk to him every week on the phone about filmmaking and key issues that were affecting the world. I met Mark Warren twice in my life and I can assure you that the same great joy that I get when I share my GED knowledge was there when we talked. Mark directed "Come Back Charleston Blue" and he got an Emmy (first one awarded to an African-American director) for "Laugh In." Wow! The Apollo Theater!
Wake up everybody no more sleepin in bed
No more backward thinkin time for thinkin ahead
The world has changed so very much
From what it used to be so
there is so much hatred war an' poverty
Wake up all the teachers time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say
Cause they're the ones who's coming up and the world is in their hands
when you teach the children teach em the very best you can.
Wow! The Apollo Theater! See my article "Wake Up Everybody" on the internet.
I'm Gonna Make A Change,
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . .
As I, Turn Up The Collar On My
Favourite Winter Coat
This Wind Is Blowin' My Mind
I See The Kids In The Street,
With Not Enough To Eat
Who Am I, To Be Blind?
Pretending Not To See
Their Needs
A Summer's Disregard,
A Broken Bottle Top
And A One Man's Soul
They Follow Each Other On
The Wind Ya' Know
'Cause They Got Nowhere
To Go
That's Why I Want You To
Know
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change)
(Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah)
I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish
Kind Of Love
It's Time That I Realize
That There Are Some With No
Home, Not A Nickel To Loan
Could It Be Really Me,
Pretending That They're Not
Alone?
A Willow Deeply Scarred,
Somebody's Broken Heart
And A Washed-Out Dream
(Washed-Out Dream)
They Follow The Pattern Of
The Wind, Ya' See
Cause They Got No Place
To Be
That's Why I'm Starting With
Me
(Starting With Me!)
I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
(Ooh!)
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
(Ooh!)
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself And
Then Make A Change)
Wow! The Apollo Theater! See Ahmad "Armando" Quazi in the video on his homepage at www.cap2015.org and do it today. Take a look at yourself even if you are only fifteen years of age.
Cotton came to Harlem, but now Harlem has Marty Love From Up Above and a team of people it has never had before. Thank you for reading these things, but there is more now to come.
The youth who scored 77 points against Dr. J is considered the greatest street basketball player of all time. I was with him in Harlem a couple of years ago, invited by Harlem Globetrotters legend Bobby Hunter. I was told that the signing bonus was not enough for him and he was making more money from you know what. When I spoke with him he had trouble finding a job. The youth who spoke up about a large number of the members of his eighth grade basketball team drifting into "drinking" and "smoking" and the youth who cited the "poverty" issue were my heroes. I had the opportunity to share with Hugh Jordine the concept for the Generation of Sports and Education that Arthur Ashe is still waiting for the world to undertake. This movement will bring the high school and college players, professionals, and legends of basketball together to help the youth and society. We will not leave out people in other sports. Tell your organization that we can help your community.
Do we need another song in 2010 with the message you see above? Don't we need to mobilize people to success, people that are really falling? William Bell, the father of Sean Bell, was at the event telling people that Black people are becoming "extinct" like animals from the past. He also told me that 60 people, at an event recently, lined up to greet him, talk to him, and share things with him related to the loss of his son. We want people to network with us. The Sean Bell Foundation will soon have the GED program and we want to mobilize the entire city. What's next? Mobilizing the entire nation, of course! Contact me for more details of the new initiative.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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ISLANDIA, NEW YORK 11749
631-348-1341
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Profesor Martin Danenberg January 20, 2010 07:02 PM