President-elect Trump may have a black leading his media machine
by Jordan Cooper

After the Inauguration of our 45th president Donald J. Trump, America will have an opportunity to experience the first minority (African-American) to be the White House’s Press Secretary. In the 1940s Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first black woman to attend a White House Press Briefing and Harry McAlpin was the first black to attend a US presidential news conference.

Dunnigan didn’t attend college, but McAlpin graduated from Wisconsin. Since that time we have had a Jewish press secretary in Ari Fleischer, and a black president in Barack Obama, but not one racial minority staffer to preside over a White House Press Conference. More than half of the African-American population reads a black newspaper every week. However, we are still underrepresented disproportionately in all jobs except prisoners who work for our state or country.

America has failed to spot black issues often even though colonists are the ones who picked the majority of Black Americans out of Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Yet, it is never too late to start providing the awareness we deserve for issues of all people.

Katrina Pierson has an opportunity to address issues that face the black community and America at-large once she takes the podium for President-elect Trump when he is sworn in as president. Before blacks could be journalists the church, civic organizations, and Greek organizations were places where African-Americans could be heard. Currently, the 1st amendment of our Constitution is afforded to us as Americans.

So, we must bring the insights of every American who is able to observe our republic take place. Voices that were unmuted need to know that they are being cared for with much significance as a citizen should be. Additionally, these unrestrained says should be as gentlemanly and ladylike as can be based on your sex.

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.