Does The Media Ignore Missing Black Women?
Do you ever get tired of the endless coverage of Jaycee Dugard and Natalie Holloway — pretty white women who’ve gone missing? Derrica Wilson, founder of the Black and Missing Foundation, told A-O-L’s Black Voices that the media is much less likely to report on missing white women than on missing African-American women:
Wilson says, “There is a term often used — ‘White Women Syndrome.’ In most cases, unless the missing person is young, white, blue eyes, blond hair, attractive, the coverage isn’t there. In my opinion, a lot of these media outlets are looking to see what sells or what they think people would want to hear or read about.”
This is also true with African-American children. Wilson says, “When it comes to black missing children, law enforcement automatically assumes the child is a runaway. Rarely do runaways receive exposure about their disappearance.”
According to the FBI, 255,575 African Americans were reported missing in 2008 alone. That number makes up for 33 percent of the total missing cases that year.
Have you ever had a loved one go missing? How much help did you feel like you got from the police, the media, your community?
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I say this all the time. If you watch Nancy Grace and other shows you wouldn’t even think so many “Black” people are abducted/missing because its not portrayed in the media and it is really sad. How about making the news outlets a source for all the missing, not just based on their skin color or what area or walk of life they are from.
Of course and I have been thinking about that myself, more so after what happen to the 3 black women in East St Louis last Sunday. However by now someone BLACK who got money should have stood up and created a all black network.
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there is an all black network, it’s called BET. But instead of reporting on shit like this, they’re rather show videos of Lil Jon talking about trying to get in a womans monkey.
The same thing is happening right now in Rocky Mount, NC! Black women missing and no national attention.
BET is for retards!!!!