Dear Mayor Miles:
Thank you for your kind words in the article that was written and in which Mr. Travis Rains apparently quoted you. I sent him a nice email congratulating him on a nice job with his piece. I was sorry to note that you found some of my comments to be inflammatory and that you were disturbed. Certainly not my intention – far from it. I don’t know how else one could describe these people that want to destroy our country, tear down our monuments and relics, change our history and to incite and invite hatred within our community by accusing local businesses and the community of racial bias and hatred, as we are seeing happen all across the country. I doubt Chief Cooper would allow a second of those acts to occur in Kingman. As I wrote to Mr. Rains, I and so many – virtually 100% – of the people who have come into the shop since this story broke, were viscerally disturbed over Mr. Tapia’s highly offensive racially lubricated and extremely incendiary race-based attack on Kingman – not a word of which was true concerning the good citizens of this town. I call that race-baiting, where there is no issue regarding racial bias, the race-baiters throw out an inference that there is a problem to draw in people who are unaware or uninformed in order to create an air of fear that a community is laced with racially biased overtones.
All Mr. Tapia had to do was to have respectfully asked the city for whatever it was that he sought but instead, Mr. Tapia chose to go public in the newspaper, slander a local business and drag out his incendiary race card, causing all this furor and foment discord and derision within our community. Thunder-Rode did not start this. We peacefully and quietly exist as part of the community every day. Everyone knows who we are and where we are. Everyone is welcome. There is even a sign that says ‘Jack’s Place’ on my residence at 3rd and Chestnut. Who then is this Domenic Tapia character? Where does he live? Is he even a local resident? Or is he just another outside AntiFa thug agitator? No one seems to know anything about him.
I’m glad the city has taken the position to put this thing in the rear view mirror. Reminds me a bit, as I’m sure it does you, of the Sasha Baron Cohen spoof and the attack on Thunder-Rode by Julya Carey and her minions a couple of years ago for almost the same thing.
I care, as you stated to Mr. Travis, a great deal for our business and our customers – had a couple of the nicest young black ladies come in today to purchase a Trump 2020 flag – and I also care a great deal about Kingman and its future. We work hard at helping to make Kingman a great place to live at Thunder-Rode, just to mention, in part, the Kingman Farmers Market at Thunder-Rode, the convenient and centrally located space which we make available for Kingmanites to come and acquire locally grown organic produce and crafts, provide restroom facilities, free ice water, music, keep clean and maintain at zero cost to the market – gets me out of bed every Saturday morning at 4:00am, the support and monies we collect for the homeless vets……$$hundreds$$ sent to Vets United this year alone from our “Corona Virus Masks – 25% to the Vets Program”, the free Easter breakfasts we provide for our vets, free use of our restroom to anyone, free ice water to anyone year round, clothing donations, assistance to Kingman’s homeless and other similar instances and activities that we don’t brag about, we just do them. Yet then we are accused of being racists.
That all being said, keep up the good work Madam Mayor, you seem to be doing a good job serving our city – and stop in any time for a visit – we are open 7 days per week. 10-6 M-Sa & 11-4 Su.
Sincerely,
Jack Alexander
