Our years are not bound on what we did yesterday. It is based on what we have planned tomorrow.
In life we cannot worry about the errs. We cannot worry about the bloopers. We must not worry about what happened on the last play of this competitive event of life. Yet, we must remember what made us sin and what can make us shun these actions again. Still, we need to know that we are not penalized, and judged by our iniquities. But through God we are assessed on our heart’s proximity to the highest notions of his faith. We can see this most vividly through society with our legal system having a pardon for any misdeed against the rules of our public government. Our God is the same way but our repentance helps us rebound almost immediately without the labyrinth of public government.
Some of the country’s most influential blacks have been traumatically tattooed by the piercing perception the public has for legal wrongdoers. Claude Alexander Allen Jr., Esq. the highest African-American on staff in the White House’s history before President Obama occupied the office was briefly disbarred and banished blatantly from inside the beltway, after he fraudulently refunded some merchandise.
Meharry-educated Dr. Conrad Murray lost his medical license after he gave the ‘King of Pop’ too much stock of medication. The parent of three Harvard Law graduates William Jefferson is jailed for an illegal quid pro quo.
On the contrary, none of these people have gotten book deals, TV shows, and lectureship offers like some of the whites who have committed felonies. Frank Abagnale teaches at the FBI. Jack Abramoff had a book deal and several lectures at some of the top universities in America. Martha Stewart still had a TV show and more books come out after she was imprisoned for obstructing justice and lying to investigators about a well-timed stock sale.
All of the aforementioned people should be forgiven by their peers with no respect to color, religion, or other demographics. We have college presidents who are convicts. We have judges who were jailbirds too. We have medical doctors who were prisoners as well. Everybody has something they’ve done that would be of legal gloominess. Due to these facts we must treat people as equals at all times in relation to law and courtesy.
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 is also the first person to serve in the top three offices in the
gubernatorial line of succession in South Carolina (Haley, Bauer, McConnell). His research indicates he has been 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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