{"id":15741,"date":"2014-10-01T16:43:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T23:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/lets-keep-it-in-perspective\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T13:05:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:05:33","slug":"lets-keep-it-in-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/lets-keep-it-in-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s keep it in perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Regarding the uproar over a comment made by City Councilman Les Thomas: Why can he not have an opinion and be free to state it? What is happening to the values and precepts our wonderful country was founded on &#8230; like free speech?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If one member of the City Council calls for a &#8220;moment of silence,&#8221; why can&#8217;t another member object?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>This has certainly been blown out of proportion.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It is interesting that on Aug. 9, a young black man named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white policeman, and it got the attention of the mainstream media, our president, etc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>On Aug. 11, in Salt Lake City, a young white man, Dillon Taylor, was shot and killed by a black policeman. No news coverage other than local. No notice by our president. Is Dillon to get a moment of silence also?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Two young men, killed days apart, and both incidences treated so differently. Both tragedies, certainly, but isn&#8217;t it time to let our legal system handle these matters and not continue to make everything a racial issue?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Mr. Thomas has served our community well for many years. Let&#8217;s keep things in perspective.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0J.K. Chapman<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the uproar over a comment made by City Councilman Les Thomas: Why can he not have an opinion and be free to state it? What is happening to the values and precepts our wonderful country was founded on &#8230; like free speech?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15741"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}