{"id":1057,"date":"2005-09-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2005\/09\/11\/letter-to-michael-smith-re-refugees-controversy\/"},"modified":"2016-12-16T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:21:20","slug":"letter-to-michael-smith-re-refugees-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/11\/letter-to-michael-smith-re-refugees-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Michael Smith re: &#8220;Refugees Controversy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>September 11, 2005<br \/>Letter on &quot;Refugees Controversy&quot;<br \/>The Galveston County Daily News<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>James Landrith<br \/>PO Box 8208<br \/>Alexandria, VA 22306-8208<\/p>\n<p>September 11, 2005<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Smith:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you sir, for standing up and saying what needed to be said about this &quot;refugee&quot; controversy that Rev. Jesse Jackson created out of nothingness in an effort to get his face associated with this horrible natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p>I recently wrote a commentary on the same topic here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/multiracial.com\/content\/view\/50\/27\/<\/p>\n<p>Again, thanks for having a stronger backbone than NPR and the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>James Landrith<br \/>Founder, Pious Pagan Publishing<br \/>http:\/\/jameslandrith.com<br \/>http:\/\/multiracial.com<br \/>http:\/\/multiracial.com\/abolitionist\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 11, 2005Letter on &quot;Refugees Controversy&quot;The Galveston County Daily News James LandrithPO Box 8208Alexandria, VA 22306-8208 September 11, 2005 Mr. Smith: Thank you sir, for standing up and saying what needed to be said&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,9],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-government-agencies-signed-by-tma","category-advocacy-and-letters","tag-advocacy-letters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-h3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Advocacy-Work.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}