University of Missouri’s Tim Wolfe Leaves and Many Missourians Breath Sigh of Relief
by Jordan Cooper

Many Missourians have been waiting on this moment.

They’ve had a lot to take in bitterness-wise and Jonathan Butler [the grad student who started what many say was the pivotal hunger strike] probably hasn’t had anything to eat since last week. So, it is time to bring in a new era with torch carriers that have the shackles released from their feet as the Statue of Liberty does.

We do not owe anybody anything except genuine respect for ourselves and others at all times. All of the University of Missouri has been waiting to exhale from the filthy fumes these acrimonious circumstances have brought to their community.

These inhabitants are just like any other American who are waiting for their opportunities to excel. How people respond to adversity and tough toiling is a testament to what it is to be a authentic American. The time to exude these qualities is always and those that try to confine it are cancerous to the original concepts of America.

President Tim Wolfe stepping down after persistent pressure and urging shows that he understands when an organization is ready to make a change. On the contrary, I hope that each instance of injustice, unfairness, and intolerance against what our country stands for is encountered with the same level of reactiveness as these chain of events were.

We have no room for not being even keel with our civil liberties, rights, and privileges as we would desire from others. I wish the University of Missouri-Columbia the best and your former President Tim Wolfe the same as well.

Jordan Thomas Cooper is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in History and a 2010 graduate of the Real Estate School of Success in Irmo. He is the first African-American to serve in both the governor and lieutenant governor’s office as an aide and first to serve in the Inspector General’s Office in S.C. (Haley) He served as the first black staffer on a GOP presidential campaign in S.C. (Perry 2011) He happens to be the second black presidential campaign speechwriter in American History and the first for a GOP presidential campaign (Bush 2015). He also played football for Coach Steve Spurrier.