US Hispanic Marketing

I hope not! The time to act to improve the family and community is now. Forty-three percent of the Hispanic adult population has no high school diploma or GED and this situation is making big waves that hurt the community. People are unemployed, in jail, victims of domestic violence, stuck in jobs without good benefits, and far from obtaining professions and they are falling farther and farther behind each year. Refer again to the sentence asking if the Hispanic community can wait ten to fifteen more years to see results. We can produce results in five years by doubling and tripling the number of Hispanics who take the GED each year and send a strong message to the children that they have to aspire to greater heights than their parents.

The leaders of Hispanic organizations have their degrees and have succeeded by sacrificing a lot or by coming from families with economic advantages. Many of these leaders quit school themselves, took the GED, and went on to higher education. Their families are progressing, but it is time for all of them to reflect more about how to help others. GED has to be on their plates. Do not tell me there is no room. I believe that one in every ten dollars used for scholarship money for college should go to helping clean up the GED problem. I have been ready for five years to help, but the Hispanic community remains unorganized, no great leaders and no think tank to eliminate this problem. Now is the time to create that think tank.

The NAHP can bring together the NALEO, NCLR, LULAC, LCLAA, HCREO, CHLI, ASPIRA, SER, MANO, MALDEF, all of the consulates of Latin America, and other organizations to bring greater awareness of the problem and to bring them toward the solution. The solution is within your reach right now, because I have the plan. This roundtable for success and achievement must be established if the Hispanic community is to be brought up to the level of other ethnic groups.

As I prepare to bring the GED to the Dominican Republic, then El Salvador and Central America and possibly Mexico, I know my goal is to build a bridge of educational resources that families here and in the country of origin have never had. This bridge will make it easier than ever before for the new wave of immigrants coming here from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico. Your newspapers reported the disasters that hurt the poor in those countries. People are crossing our borders and my message will never reach them and their family members without an organized Hispanic community.

Two years ago, in Spanish newspaper, I called for the Million Hispanic March to the GED and this then I have achieved international recognition. The mobilization to the GED need not be expensive. In fact I am sure we can mobilize those people at a cost of approximately $100 a diploma. Normally it costs thousands of dollars to help people in the classroom to earn a diploma. Recently as a testimony to my efforts, I was told that sixteen adults, parents of children in a New York City school, passed the GED without going to call and at no cost to society except the cost of taking, administering, grading, and sending the diploma to those people. Hundreds or thousands of people in each state could do the same thing each year if they only knew what those sixteen learned from me in forty-five minutes. Hispanics all over the country can obtain my help by correspondence. There is no waiting list, no summer vacations, no winter breaks, no need to find a ride to get to a class, no doors closed because the individuals have to work weekdays and cannot attend classes, and no excuses. I am ready, willing, and able to help Hispanics here and abroad. My network is that wide.

Photo of Profesor Martin visiting the office of Congressman Ruben Hinojosa of Texas.

MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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ISLANDIA, NY 11749
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