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PROFESOR MARTIN MEETS REVEREND LAWSON IN WASHINGTON, DC
By Profesor Martin N. Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
For thirty seconds, outside our nation’s Capitol building at a rally for undocumented immigrants, I spoke with Reverend Lawson about bringing a GED Roundtable to Los Angeles. That Roundtable is now on hold, but we can go forward together to help people. I did two Roundtables that week in Washington, DC, one in Congress and one in the AFL-CIO building. These Roundtables are important, but the important thing is for the SCLC to mobilize the African American community to take the GED and rebuild the people of the Southern states affected by Katrina by education.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference can do much more to help African Americans and other residents of the United States. In five seconds in each important speech it can mobilized people the way Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. did. When Dr. King spoke the words “I have a dream” it took less than five seconds. Every night at 10 PM on television (Channel 5 in New York), there was an announcement which said “Do you know where your children are?” In five seconds each leader of the SCLC can tell people “the GED is an easy test to pass, to take it!”
Yes the accumulative effect of dropping out of school over generations has held millions of African Americans back. We saw the poverty of African Americans in and around New Orelans after the worst natural disaster struck that area. Those people have been held back through slavery and a post Civil Rights era that did not help them enough. Millions of African Americans still walk streets in our “great” cities little prepared to be competitive while African Americans become billionaires and progress as well as Caucasians.
Each state is different in its delivery of GED to its people. Alaska and several other states double the efforts of states like New York, California, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Alaska quadruples the best of those states. African American leadership must be made aware of this.
The GED goes hand in hand with English language acquisition for people from other countries, with the study of computers, with preparation for citizenship, and making people of color more competitive. I wish I could have provided my expertise to Dr. King before his death, but in his name we should finish the work that he started by concentrating on putting the GED in the hands of those adults who have not finished high school. Five seconds is all it will take to produce great results. Get the word out at your next convention, in your newsletters, on your website, at your meetings, and in all of your speeches and you will see great results.
I offer you my hand and help. Photo of Reverend Lawson taken by Profesor Martin. Martin believes that African Americans and Hispanics should unite for human dignity and the promotion of education. A faith based initiative for GED is needed and churches should open their doors to all minorities and other people in need. The whole mobilization process and the program are relatively simple.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
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