A 21-Year-Old College Student Is About To Become The Youngest Member Of The Mississip

A 21-Year-Old College Student Is About To Become The Youngest Member Of The Mississippi House



Tulane University senior Jeramey Anderson turns 22 on Friday — the same day he will be sworn into the Mississippi House of Representatives, making him the youngest member of the legislative body.

The Tulane student won the seat after a general election against the candidate backed by the local Democratic Party, even though Anderson had led the Democratic primary. Anderson took 60% of the vote in Tuesday’s election, the Sun Herald reports.

According to the Associated Press, Anderson is studying homeland security and public relations at Tulane, and has made arraignments with the school’s dean to continue his education online when the House is in session.

Anderson told the Sun Herald that he believes education is the most important issue he’ll face.

“We focus too highly on standardized testing .. We teach students to memorize the answers to specific questions and ideas, but what we don’t teach them is how is they got those answers. We need to get back to the foundation of understanding why things are what they are,” he said.

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This is amazing news! I wish him the greatest amount of success!

 

This is a awesome thing to see. Thanks for sharing.

 

Get it homie! Awesome.

 

That is a first. Hope he stays in office for a long time.

 

Congratulations to him.

 

In future he will become new president of USA.

 

Impressive:smt023

 

Amazing young man!

 

I am noticing that when an uplifting, positive thread is presented here on the forum many times it slips into the archives

do you all only like drama...can you not celebrate the success of your peers?

 

Are it could be as simple as many of us here in real life see plenty of positive & uplifting young black males & females despite the constant bombardment of how scum of society & screwed up the black community is as painted by various individuals on this site. Some of ya'll come across as if black people are incapable of achieving anything positive outside of the select few self elevated black achievers who frequent this site and everyone else is just fucked & worthless.

 

Hearing gossip and negative news tend to get the most traffic. It's nothing new at all. Even in forums like this, drama is most prevalent, as it keeps people on their toes.

 

I practice an "if you don't have anything good to say then don't say anything at all" nowadays


I think he will do a good job but I couldn't find me saying anything good about the state of Mississippi because I have only heard of bad things. so I decided not to bash.

 

I don't know his politics, but if he's reflective of the the rest of Mississippi as a whole, then he won't really do much better than the shills in the state House. Nothing trans-formative or a changing face in the backwards red state.

 

Like I have said before, There is always someone who is going to say something similar to what I am thinking. Thank you MS

 

Just keeping honest.

Mississippi, as much as many people want you to believe otherwise, still has a lot of growing up to do, socially, intellectually, and politically. There are few in that state who shares that sentiment. Sadly, they are just whispers in the dark.

It's just like the Governor's race there. You're picking between the lesser of two evils. Yes, the Democratic candidate was a black man and that's all nice and dandy, but he's still a staunch conservative, except the Democrat in the race was slightly more liberal in economic policies. That's not even saying much. Even if he were elected, the policies will be the same, except more scrutinized because of two factors...which I don't need to really stress.