{"id":3606,"date":"2016-02-19T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/site\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2016-12-14T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T07:51:13","slug":"letter-to-city-of-monroe-re-kissing-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/19\/letter-to-city-of-monroe-re-kissing-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to City of Monroe re: \u201cKissing Case\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">February 19, 2016<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bobby Kilgore<br \/>\nCity of Monroe<br \/>\n300 West Cronwell Street<br \/>\nMonroe, N.C. 28112<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Kilgore,<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Given that it is Black History Month, does the city ever plan on making things right with\u00a0James Hanover Thompson and David Simpson over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/04\/29\/135815465\/the-kissing-case-and-the-lives-it-shattered\" target=\"_blank\">their horrendous treatment by the city and the violent, racist police department<\/a> of the time?\u00a0 Thompson and Simpson deserve formal apologies at the very least and public recognition of how they were wronged by the city and those in uniform who SHOULD have been keeping the public safe, rather than abducting and torturing children.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Please consider doing the right thing and giving these men the apologies and recognition they deserve from the city that wronged them so horribly. It may seem like ancient history to some, but social media and the civil rights community has not forgotten.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo ajU\">\n<div id=\":g6\" class=\"ajR\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Hide expanded content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ajT\" src=\"https:\/\/ssl.gstatic.com\/ui\/v1\/icons\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>James Landrith<\/div>\n<div>Founder and Editor,<\/div>\n<div>The Multiracial Activist<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/multiracial.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>cc:<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Pro Tem Debra Duncan<br \/>\nCouncil Member Gary Anderson<br \/>\nCouncil Member Surluta Anthony<br \/>\nCouncil Member Freddie Gordon<br \/>\nCouncil Member Billy A. Jordan<br \/>\nCouncil Member Lynn A. Keziah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 19, 2016 &nbsp; Mayor Bobby Kilgore City of Monroe 300 West Cronwell Street Monroe, N.C. 28112 &nbsp; Mayor Kilgore, Given that it is Black History Month, does the city ever plan on making&#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":[142,125,132,138],"class_list":["post-3606","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","tag-hate-crimes-and-hate-groups","tag-interracial-and-intercultural-families","tag-race-and-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-Wa","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\/3606","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=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3805"}],"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=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}