Jesus Christ said anyone that builds on his rock is a wise man and those that choose to build on sand are foolish. Discrimination and prejudice is breaking the foundation of the American Dream and putting it on quicksand. If you’ve ever played video games you know even the most stark superhero cannot overcome quicksand.
Our country has been built on the divine standards of protecting liberties and opportunities. Laws are to defend our daily lives from asinine abuses. Policies are to save us from immense inequality. Put into practice these written precepts are to preserve the beauty of America without any neglect of care on purpose.
Studies say that we have become increasingly anti-Arab and racially snobbish as a whole since the early 2000s. Also, according to the FBI the percentage of hate crimes where Arabs are victims has raised exponentially since early this Millenium. That is when the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks happened. We are trying to sell quicksand to Arabs and other minorities to build on.
Most Arab-Americans are not Islamic-extremists. About 75 percent of them are Christians and the remainder are Muslims. Arab-Americans in general don’t hate Americans. Most Arabs are not oil-rich as faulty generalizations would suggest. They get ashy just like anyone else.
However, our country’s togetherness is diminishing day by day with how we are interfacing others. There should be some hazard signs and red lights for us to screen chary people for our safety. But there should be the green lights of freedom that keep America wonderful forever more.
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.