Learning while Black: When White Women Go Missing

Thursday, June 21, 2007

When White Women Go Missing

It seems like the entire world stops when someone white and female goes missing. And nobody is lashing out against this injustice. Countless Black children go missing on a daily basis and the most I'll hear about it is on some lousy email sent out by friends. Why is this so? Isn't Black life as valuable as White life? Well, based on the latest events, apparently not. Black people die everyday in gullies and lakes. Black children go missing on Spring Break all the time. Yet, there is no paper trail, no CNN World News Report, no MSNBC coverage, NOTHING! And then they look at us and say America is not divided...BULLSHIT!

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Did you hear about the young woman - originally from Brooklyn I think - who was a recent John Jay grad., on her way to law school this fall, who went missing while on vacation in Florida on May 29, 2007? Caught it on the local news the other day.; June 22, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Ms. Educated said...: Of course I didn't!; June 23, 2007 at 12:20 AM

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