Our stereotyping, type-casting brains
by Jordan Cooper
There are 4 things you’ll be given a side-eye to if you say them in inappropriate places.
If a state employee says ‘climate change’ in one of Florida’s cabinet agencies they may be criticized by former MLB baseball owner and Gov. Rick Scott. If an agent says ‘tight end’ in a contract negotiation with a NFL position player who is looking for a maximum contract based solely on their position’s responsibilities, they’ll be pilloried.
If a reporter says ‘thug’ when describing a violent criminal, they’ll be rebuked by former CNN anchor and Harvard graduate Soledad O’Brien. If a college admissions officer tells someone they’re a minority because they are racially African-American, they may be reproached by the college’s president.
Eventually, there won’t be a thing as global warming or greenhouse effect, because of political correctness from our own politicians. There won’t be any positions in football and all the players’ positions will be renamed pass-catcher (which could be an offensive linemen or defensive player) due to acute avariciousness among some players.
People who burn down businesses, and lynch people won’t be seen as terrible thugs; they’ll be only described as those who traveled across the legal limit. Since irrationally the first thing that comes to mind of people when they hear the word ‘thug’ is a black person, which is against the lexicographical definition. Then, people who are within the racial description black won’t be seen as minorities, but will be bungled into a culturally underrepresented people’s group.
That will be comprised of marginalized walks of life that aren’t expressed frequently on campus such as people who watch legal dramas like Suits, people who play recreational games like ultimate frisbee, and people who listen to punk rock. Those groups have nothing to do with ancestral, biological, and physical characteristics that differentiate some people from others based on the law.
Our minds are subliminally taught to place a generality, universality, and sweeping statement that crunches the things we experience in our lives into a box like a knickknack.
When we think of football player in South Carolina, we don’t think of someone that is a South American like Martin Gramatica in our subconsciously patterned mental depictions. We think of an African-American like George Rogers through our own misplaced notion of racial stereotypes.
When we think of a governor in South Carolina, we don’t think of an African-American like Douglas Wilder or Asian like Nikki Haley. We think of the previous governors that weren’t minority.
Our knee-jerk reactions, predispositions, and loose censoring, are diluting the solution to public affairs matters, civil rights, and our environmental issues. We have to conquer these prejudice impulses and instincts that hinder the genuine impressions we can experience in life which help us become better human beings. Scientists say we can train our brains — and God said we can overcome our brain’s bends, too.
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.