Crime is shameful but part of our erred nature
by Jordan Cooper

Being accused of a crime is one of the most humiliating things in life. It is a discomfort to your moral identity as an individual. Crime disgraces your social responsibility as a good neighbor in your country. It is a shameful thing to share with family members and friends. Most of all, it is often inappropriately used to signify the least privileged people of our country. So, it is a marker of inferiority that no one wants to be branded with.

Crime is something that can strip you of your God-given freedoms to be financially independent, no matter how hard you worked before incarceration. Crime immobilizes your body to be incapable of improving your neck of the woods. Crime is something that can take you away from your family, without regard of how many phone calls and letters you can send from jail. Crime is something that can change the way you utilize your citizenship, irrespective of how religiously forgiving you are. We Americans need to instill in our people in one’s salad days a strong footing in their personhood to cope with the moral flaws we are all born with. We as Americans must know how to mitigate the severity of the bumps of our head in life and must learn how to live within our own space to not bump heads with our fellow citizens. The success of youthful people is the bellwether to an awesome country.

There are oodles of potential distractions that diminish our scholars’ performances in education, work, and positive extracurriculars. I believe that with early installations of initiatives for the right behaviors towards our existence we will have a healthier and greater achieving country as a whole. A person is only as good as the things they are attached to. Furthermore, a country’s economy, national safety, and environment is a brain work of our schools. With a wonderful education, our country’s objectives will never falter. We Americans were made to thrive and thumbs-down behavior will defeat the America we know.

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.