Puerto Ricans Falling Behind

In a study of second- and later-generation immigrants between the ages of 24 and 32, for example, 24 percent of the Puerto Ricans were high school dropouts, compared to 16 percent of the Dominicans and 13 percent of the South Americans, who were from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru......read the full article here...

It's not just about stressing the importance of education to our own children but to our entire families. I've been surfing the net, looking at the various social networks and looking at latino news to keep abreast with what's going on. While there are many doing positive and uplifting things it disturbs me to read and find out that Puerto Ricans are still falling behind.

Twitter

On Tuesday I signed up on Twitter. On Wednesday and Thursday I did the research and now on Friday I am convinced. I am a tweeter. What is all the buzz about? Well, you'll just have to sign up and see for yourself. Combined with my blackberry, I now have twitterberry.

Read this posting " Twitter Milestones or How Twitter is not Email by sean808080 ohmbase. I don't use the status updates on Facebook much and I see Facebook as a way to stay connected with family and friends. Twitter on the other hand, allows me to update about anything to anyone throughout the day, not just friends but other tweeters. By the way, there is also twitpic for sharing photos and twitwall (embed videos and widgets, upload your photos, mp3 music or podcasts) for those times when a tweet is just not enough. You can easily sign in using the same userid for all.

Hasta luego!!...got to twitter.

I'm at http://twitter.com/efrainortizjr

MTV Stereotype II: Update

This is an update to my earlier post on 3/26/09: An update on MTV's "True Life: I'm a Nuyorican".....Meeting this week between hispanic media coalition, MTV and Nuyoricans Against MTV's True Life. Stand up, mi gente!!! Let's get MTV to showcase some positive Nuyoricans. Sign the petition.....firme la petición.
UPDATE
THE SHOW IS OFF THE AIR!!!!!!!
Katilia Vélez, on 4/1/09, in Facebook message writes:
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! YOU DID IT!!!!! WE HAVE RECEIVED CONFIRMATION FROM MTV THAT THE SHOW IS NOT SCHEDULED TO RE-AIR....!!!!!!!!WWWEEEEEEPPPPPPAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!


IN THE COMING WEEKS WE WILL KNOW WHAT THE STATUS IS AS FAR AS PRODUCING A NEW EPISODE WHICH IS HISTORICALLY AND CONTEXTUALLY ACCURATE FOR NUYORICANS.....

YOU MADE IT HAPPEN! FELICIDADES!!!!

MTV TAKES A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION....
BUT--- WE STILL HAVE A WAYS TO GO- WE WANT TO HAVE THEM PRODUCE A NEW EPISODE SO WE STILL NEED SIGNATURES!!!!!!

;-D
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/nuyoricans-against-mtv-true-life/sign.html

UPDATE!! As of 4/15/09.....
MTV pulls 'Nuyorican'.......