{"id":13076,"date":"2012-02-27T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T22:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13076"},"modified":"2012-02-27T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T22:10:35","slug":"black-man-convicted-of-mailing-noose-to-interracial-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13076","title":{"rendered":"Black Man Convicted Of Mailing Noose To Interracial Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, it was revealed that interracial marriages have reached an all-time high, but some people still take issue with the notion that love has no color.<\/p>\n<p>A couple in Detroit comprised of a Black man and white woman received a noose in the mail, alongside photos of people being lynched, for their colorblind love.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s even more shocking is the fact that the man who sent the items is not only Black himself, but &#8220;allegedly&#8221; holds a PhD. &#8220;When I opened the letter up, first thing I saw was a noose,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carl Smith<\/strong> said. &#8220;I opened it up further and it was like four pages of hate mail. People being hung, black guys, <strong>Nicole [Brown] Simpson<\/strong> getting her throat cut, and I was terrified.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Smith<\/strong> and his wife, <strong>Susan<\/strong>, contacted the FBI who requested that they send the items over. Upon further investigation detectives were able to find DNA on the noose, which allowed them to pinpoint the culprit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glenn E. Morgan Jr.<\/strong>, 41, of Detroit, and founder of the National Black Men&#8217;s Education Association, was identified for committing the crime. Despite the fact that no one has ever even really heard of his alleged association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, it was revealed that interracial marriages have reached an all-time high, but some people still take issue with the notion that love has no color. A couple in Detroit comprised of a Black man and white woman received a noose in the mail, alongside photos of people being lynched, for their colorblind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}