Three things you can’t say in black America
by Jordan Cooper
There are 3 things you can’t say truthfully about Black America.
There isn’t a black who has a great-great-great-grandfather who graduated from an Ivy League university. There isn’t a black who has been an All-Pro kicker in the National Football League. There isn’t a black who can say that their has been a extended family member who has not been a single mother.
There definitely needs to be some improvements made and more changes within our community. Education procreates wealth and consequently it makes a better life. Black Americans marry at a lower rate than any other race, have the highest percentage of turbulent families, and 60 percent of black women are married to men of lesser educational backgrounds. In the now, it seems like blacks are living life based on a seriously simplistic checklist.
It’s as if well-to-do blacks are saying I graduated college, stayed out of trouble, and found a job; I won. Therefore, they’re numbingly nonchalant to the life changing conditions that reduce the chances for endless endearment for their families in the future. There is less time to find a mate than when you were in college not unless you’ve got boatloads of time to look at match.com (laughs). There is less time to pursue a passionate career when you approach the job market like a sale at Big Lots (laughs).
It’s a waste of a learning experience when you’ve driven drunk, drank irresponsibly, and bought ‘study pills’ for your exams in college without authorities being involved to change your habits like the ‘Just Say Yo’ episode in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. That’s no laughing matter. And then again we have to remember life isn’t not about money it’s about living in the grandest gladness for your life without a unnecessary man-made material thing needing to be attached to you for that to happen.
Blacks and others should still want to be able to say I had a family member that finished where a lot of our country’s founding fathers did. Blacks should want to be a better family man than Bill Cosby, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Tiger Woods. And a better family woman than Oprah Winfrey or Rashida Jones.
Blacks and others should want to be able to remember where their homes are and their churches without having a mushed mind like many NFL players presently have. Kickers take the least amount of physical punishment and less than one percent of blacks have accounted for them in the NFL’s history. We are not being sold at a sleazy slave market anymore, so we don’t have to prove physical firmness. We are not acting out the movie The Best Man and need to recollect that’s just a fictional script, so we need not try to prove our known libido’s limitlessness.
We are not prohibited to only attending black universities in America anymore. We can strive for what we see as the best education around America.
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 to serve in the top three offices in the gubernatorial line of succession in South Carolina (Haley, Bauer, McConnell). He happens to be 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.