Peace will let freedom ring
by Jordan Cooper
We choose what place we live in and we must live by the laws there. If you would like to change the laws, we have our three branches of government for that.
Change must not be made that results in violence on our rap sheets, death certificates, and other things that remove people from intellectual conversations to make a difference. We cannot pound the pavement without plans to adjust positive law. We live in God’s universe made with natural morality that guides our mindsets. On the whole, we must be considerate of one another in the way we act. Killing people when it is not officially wartime in a country is inadmissible.
The public cannot deal with police like they are corrupt factions against them. Police officers cannot look at the public as life-threatening enemies in a foreign country. Killing takes away contributors to our community. Killing dents organs that could be donated. Killing takes away members of your support system. We must understand the significance of life and that we are usually in no place to expire people’s lives. We cannot kill each other because God is still working through us and we cannot disregard his will. He decides when we die. We do not decide when other human beings will perish without reasonable necessity by law such as self-defense or capital punishment.
We can have as much control as man can give us, but we are not permitted to put one in one’s resting place without just cause guided by law. We cannot let emotions interfere with our abilities to distinguish between what is right and wrong. There will be turbulence in our lives. There will be problems. There will be hurt. However, we must not let them overthrow our conscience.
We must understand that there will be ups and downs. Yet, we must maintain our presence of mind. The Bible says in the book of Matthew that a house divided against itself will fall. We must not let anger be in authority of our minds that punch a hole in our connections as citizens. Doing that is not a ticket to the American Dream. We must not let fear place us in bad decisions that estrange us from a congenial democracy. We cannot let frustration thin out our concentration on doing what’s best for this country.
Above all, we must not let our feelings trample upon doing what’s correct. Violence is disuniting our country.
It’s coming from the tongue thru name-calling. It’s coming from the limbs thru force and the media is advertising it. We pay them, but our hearts are in havoc.
Instructions for violence are only created for contact sports and you are only supposed to use violence in self-defense. We were not made to catch fits with our emotions. We were created to make a positive difference and inspire others too. Unnecessary violence produces tension — but nonviolence with objectives yields advantageous results for all.
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.
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