Being positive can click us all together as Americans
by Jordan Cooper
Over half of racial minority youth are unemployed or underemployed. Minorities are disciplined in academia in a disproportionate way too in regards to the predominant race. There are three things kids want to happen the most to get popularity with their friends. Kids want to go pro in sports. Kids want to go platinum in music. Kids want to be propertied.
However, they’d like to accomplish these aforementioned things in radicalized manners. Disobeying your older responsible adults makes youth feel glorified as outsiders to a system that they think is made for pushovers. Breaking the law makes youth feel like rightful objectors to a society that wasn’t created for the ‘new generation’. Going against what your church, temple, or mosque says is okay in your life gives youth the unsafe heated adrenaline rush of what it’s like to be caught in the rapture.
The bad dream of going to hell, going to jail, and being permanently expelled from regular living is not a real feeling to them. Kids must learn to be successful they have to follow first in any type of work they choose. They must learn to be led to know how to lead. They must learn how to make their actions count for the highest good in whatever they do. They must learn that they don’t have to choose to do a wrong thing.
Bad things happen to people all the time at some point in their lives. There are going to be personality clashes in any group you work with. There are going to be systematic stops by the law that are going to displease you. There are going to be hiccups in life and yeah, you don’t pick when those happen.
So, you don’t need to join an unlawful gang to make something shake. You already are in positive cliques with your family, graduating classmates, and your religious center. Remember these uplifting attitudes in any other organization you’re a part of.
Jordan Thomas Cooper is a 2015 graduate of the University of South Carolina with a degree in History and a 2010 graduate of the RealEstate 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 is also the first person to serve in the top three offices in the gubernatorial line of succession in South Carolina (Haley, Bauer, McConnell). He says research shows he is 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.
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