Dear Editor:
All words are worthless not unless they are followed by action. That is what made our country special and what defined the civil rights movement. That energy to make a change to better your life and consequently change the world starts within you.
Yet, it all comes down to your thought making process and as humans we must realize life is a series of important choices. I have made some good ones and bad ones, but I have not let my mistakes make me. I think it is all about how you turn your negatives into positives then those positives into successes.
I had the unexpected occasion of making history when I was the first black to serve in the governor and lieutenant governor’s office in South Carolina and the first black to be a staffer on a Republican presidential campaign in South Carolina (being fortunate to serve Governors Nikki Haley, Rick Perry and lieutenant governor Andre Bauer respectively).
I still cannot fathom it and maybe never will.
However, I know that if I can make a contribution to society we all can for a lifetime. It just takes some determination. I am appalled by black graduates being more than doubly unemployed as whites. I am astounded that over half of our race commits the murders in America and are in jails in a higher proportion than any other ethnicity. I am disgusted that a higher proportion of our children are being born into broken homes, poverty, and government assistance than any other race.
If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were able to speak supernaturally today he may be asking us when are we going to cherish the dream he got his heartbeat taken away for? Today, we have a president who happens to be black, but we still are in a very dark time. We hear wonderfully sounding speeches with little pulse to show that we are grateful for those who came before us to pave the way. Black America is in a coma and the only things that can awaken it is work ethic, college degrees, and most of all godly principles. Our reliance on faith and optimism will without a doubt be a key to attaining prosperity in America.
It is high time we be prepared to receive our blessings.
Jordan Cooper
Columbia, S.C.
SIC SEZ
Jordan – This website agrees with you regarding the administration of Barack Obama. And we have said so. Now, I would point out that I served under Henry White – who is black – in the gubernatorial administration of Mark Sanford from 2003-2005. Are you saying you are the first black person to serve in both the governor and lieutenant governor’s office?
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o yeah! its monday in america and Fits needs to get that click count up with some good old southern race-baiting. aint freedom wonderful!? but its ok. i still enjoy your blog for reasons i cannot comprehend, you loathsome hillbilly piece of shit.
It worked on you, didn’t it?
absotively! i cannot stop checking this idiotic site. for the same reason i buy lottery tickets i guess.
The truth hurts, admit it.
Yeah but this ain’t nothin compared to running a column blasting the NAACP.
That really gets the blood boiling around here.
This was pretty game stuff.
“If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. were able to speak supernaturally today he may be asking us, where are da white women at?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=493pL_Vbtnc
If MLK could speak supernaturally today he would be asking “What the hell have you done to my dream”?
Boondocks did a GREAT episode on this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJQX3yA6Ie8
Actually the good Dr. would have by now been stripped of his Blackness by White Liberals for they same reason they do it to any others today. He would be an enemy of the State for being the antidote to the Barrack Obamas, Al Sharptons, and Jesse Jacksons out there. The man only wanted equality and unity, not entitlement and division. He surely would recognize the damage the “The Great Society” has done to his race.
Mr. Cooper you hit the nail on the head in describing the symptoms, but didn’t mention the causes. When you combine something for nothing government programs and black entitlement (even if justified), They combine to undermine self sufficiency and character.
It amazes me how emigrants can arrive in the US from Africa or Haiti with nothing and by their first American born generation can achieve more than privileged whites who’s ancestor’s have been here 300 years. I believe one of the reasons for their success is that they are grateful to be here are not burdened with resentment and a sense of entitlement.
Bingo!
I muddled through his language until I got to “being fortunate to serve Governors Nikki Haley, Rick Perry and lieutenant governor Andre Bauer respectively.” Then I read ” were able to speak supernaturally” but that spooky black magic stuff is nothing I want anything to do with.
@fitsnews Yes, I was speaking on about the gov. and lt. gov’s office. I am familiar with your former colleague Henry White. I have talked to him a few times. I wish more South Carolinians and especially more blacks would hear his journey.
I thought Obama was half-white.
Only when he does something wrong, if you’re black.
WHITES SQUANDERED EVERYONE’S DREAM
African Americans served under both Governor Jim Edwards and Dick Riley. Other than not know this fact, your premise is a sound one. It is high time for adult black men to make a stand against the so called “leaders” who simply take advantage of the community instead of moving it forward.
Thanks Sam. I’ve looked thru the libraries, internet sites, and asked a few people. Doesn’t seem like anyone else is appearing with those two claims. Cong. Clyburn was the first black advisor to a Governor in S.C. in 1971. Gov. West was the last Lt. Governor to become Governor in S.C. Then, there was a substantial amount of time after that when the top two offices were occupied by people of different parties or different ideologies. So, the chance for people to work in both slimmed tremendously. I think Randy Page was the last person before me to work in both the Gov.’s and Lt. Gov’s office. Moving further, Henry White was the first black B&CB director and first black chief of staff in a Gov’s office in S.C. Rick Wade served in the Lt. Gov’s office and was a cabinet official with a governor. Ron Thomas worked on staff with Cong. Bachmann in 2012 and was on the Black steering committee for Bush in 2004. I hope this helps clarify things for you.