Opportunities await our begats
by Jordan Cooper
A basketball costs 20 bucks. A new cd costs 20 bucks. A book sold at a public library is about a quarter and your intellectual invigoration is priceless.
More than half of nonwhite kids in the United States can’t read at grade level. More black kids are not reading at grade level than any other race. One in four children are illiterate altogether. This problem will be paralyzing our economy today and in our tomorrows. Our parents, teachers, and students can’t build a hearse for America’s learning which we must be caretakers of for the rest of our lives. Studies say reading relaxes, eases worry, sharpens the mind, prevents Alzheimer’s, and it can help you sleep better.
There are a number of ways to increase your child’s reading skills and build great habits for a lifetime. First, you can get your child to read a section of the local newspaper each day. Then, you can ask your child to list books they’d like to read each month. It’d be best to mix non-fiction of interest, non-fiction not of immediate interest, and fiction of interest. Fiction will build your child’s creative consciousness and non-fiction will help your child better observe the world around them.
Next, it’d be very useful to pick a word of the day out of the dictionary for your child to learn how to use. Moreover, it’d be valuable to subscribe to a joke of the day website that is religiously based. This could educate your child on the benefits of comedy for heart health and lighthearted communication.
If we implement these tools we can be able to reduce the disparities in living quality in America and potentially see another minority governor of South Carolina, or minority president of the United States.
Harvard Law graduates more black lawyers than any other law school in America and South Carolina’s flagship university is at the uppermost tier for graduating minorities. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and President Barack Obama are not one-time deals for the narratives of minorities in America. Each able-bodied child in America has an opportunity for success.
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 happens to be the second black presidential campaignspeechwriter in American History and the first for a GOP presidential campaign (Bush 2015). He also played football for Coach Steve Spurrier.