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Thank goodness I was able to get close to Reverend Al Sharpton sometimes to teach him new things, but the rest of the leadership lags far behind. You see that game plan of the reverend was incomplete. His emphasis on fighting for civil rights in so many cases has really helped people, but the neighborhoods those people came from saw slow progress and the youth continued on the path to what is known as "the pipeline to prison." The youth that ex-Senator Hillary Clinton wrote about in her platform for president in 2008 have been left behind for two more years. There are millions of them who are underemployed and unemployed. Only one in four young Black men is working according to reports about New York City. Black or Hispanic. Black or Hispanic. Black or Hispanic. See the high dropout rate from school and low GED attainment. This is not good at all and this is what all of those leaders have produced in their communities. This is what I have fought for 10 years and the Hispanics who take the Spanish GED are normally about 25,000 annually. The country has been made weaker by weak (on education) elected officials and community associations that hold power. I recently wrote that elected officials puzzle me and I know the reasons why.

The youth who are disconnected because of the failure of the system, the failure of the DREAM Act to make a difference means there is a great need to organize. Unless President Obama has a plan of action to get the support soon, we may be looking at four years of hardship for those youth or maybe more than four years. Where are the people who were so concerned about them? Is there a secondary plan to help them or are we just going to let them continue...continue...continue? If I could, I would go up to each leader in each community and ask what comes next for those youth. Of course they can all move to the liberal states. Here in New York those youth could attend colleges and universities.

The big mistake made in South Africa was giving up economic power for political power. Providing good legal rights for people must be adequately combined with education, workforce development, and economic empowerment. The leadership has failed to adequately educate the people. Every member of every family needs a diploma and I am not referring for the well provided for family members of the elected officials, the Hispanic church leaders, and people I know and do not know.

Look I grew up watching Zorro and films about Latin American history. There were films about peones and the way they were treated. We learned about slavery in America. We watched and taught about slavery. We encouraged our students to watch "Roots" and other shows. When I go into certain communities, people there are talking about the plantation and the peones in their own neighborhoods. I am not Black or Latino and people confide in me and the reason why is they do not see enough progress in their communities and they, the people, feel left out or left back. We do not live in a perfect world, but I have seen enough. People count on me to produce change, change that is long overdue. Fight for Vieques, get arrested protesting laws in Arizona, do those things you feel you have to do, but why have you hardly done anything to help 40 million adults who have no diploma, why have you not shrunk the dropout rate from high school, why have you not picked up the educational initiative that the government of El Salvador gave me permission to do. Yes consulates of El Salvador were talking about all kinds of educational help leading to jobs and higher education. Where were the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, the government of Puerto Rico, and other countries? What did they do? Why didn't they take on this important initiative? Where were the organizations around the country that were supposed to be leading instead of doing nothing? Do you think that President Barack Obama is going to order Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to make the GED for Latin America a priority or bring the GED in French to Haiti so young people who could not graduate will have the diploma that they need to go on and make Haiti a better place?

We are broke! Communist Cuba is broke and it is going to lay off 500,000 people and reduce benefits as it increases free enterprise. In other words it appears that poverty is going to increase there, but some people are going to get rich. This seems to be going on all over the world! We may be broke and systems are landing upside down. Black people know from interpretations of history that they did not land on Plymouth Rock and that Plymouth Rock landed on them. Right? When do we make the changes we need?

Days after I started this article, Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy revealed that he was against the college entry aspect of the DREAM Act because those youth would be taking away seats of people who are here legally. It seems that he does not know that New York already permits undocumented immigrants to attend the City and State Universities and even get financing. I have been pushing to educate hundreds of thousands of people through the GED and dropout prevention for years and I see no recognition by Levy or elected-officials who think like Levy and who do not think like Levy about the great need in New York. Reverend Allen Ramirez speaks up about keeping "a large group of people as second class citizens" and I urge my readers to read the portion about Blacks and Hispanics again for they are truly the "second-class" citizens that Reverend Ramirez should be alluding to. The immigrants he is speaking up about can be deported anytime, but not the second-class citizens. If we cannot expand educational opportunities together, everyone loses. Then we have a quota system in place for higher education. Steve Levy seems more like those Democratic senators (5 of them) who are from North Carolina, Montana, Arkansas, Nebraska who voted against the bill. Maybe Levy belongs in one of those states.
Five Democrats voted against the bill: Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Jon Tester (D-Mt.), Max Baucus (D-Mt.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), who switched her vote to a "no" at the last minute. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) skipped Saturday's votes for a Christmas party.

UNFORTUNATELY THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE LEADERS TO TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THEIR FAILURE

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