The Missing White Woman Syndrome

Thu Dec 27th 2007 by abagond

The Missing White Woman Syndrome is where the press goes on and on for days if not weeks when a pretty white woman or girl is missing but says little to nothing about other missing people. It affects the news at least in Britain and North America.

How many of these do you know?

Marcie Crane,	Tamika Huston,	Shirley Geanes,
LaToyia Figueroa,	Phylicia Moore,	Stepha Henry,
Nailah Franklin,	Theresa Bunn,	Latasha Norman.

How about these:

JonBenet Ramsey,	Chandra Levy,	Elizabeth Smart,
Laci Peterson,	Brooke Wilberger,	Lori Hacking,
Jennifer Wilbanks,	Natalee Holloway,	Taylor Behl.

These are both lists of missing women. If you live in North America you probably know some from the second list but none from the first. Yet the only difference between the two lists is skin colour: the missing women in the first list are black, those in the second are white. Black or white, most are now dead, as are the missing women of other races.

From the news you would never know that most missing Americans are men, not women, that nearly a third of the missing are black and that, yes, even ugliness will not save a woman from becoming missing and turning up dead.

The news prefers its missing people to be young, white, pretty, female and from a well-to-do family.

This seems to be especially so with cable news. They like to lead the hour’s news with a picture of a pretty white woman and the word “MISSING”.

In May 2004 Tamika Huston, a 24-year-old black woman from South Carolina, was missing. It was not till 14 months later that they found her body. Her aunt worked in public relations but the press was not all that interested. Yet during all those months when Huston went missing cable news went on and on about these missing women:

Lori Hacking of Utah whose husband killed her
Natalee Holloway, who went missing in Aruba (they never found her)
Jennifer Wilbanks, a runaway bride

All were white.

Anderson Cooper of CNN says he has never seen a story killed because it was about someone who was not pretty enough or white enough. But he has seen stories get pushed aside because reporters think, “You know, I don’t think our viewers are very interested in this case.”

Cable news, like the film and fashion industries, which I have already written about, assumes that most people do not care to see blacks.

The Missing White Woman Syndrome is part of something much broader: news reporting on crime follows the colour line. It is news when it affects white people but not when it affects only black people.

I once lived in a part of New York where the sound of gunshots and ambulances in the night were a part of life. Hundreds were killed year after year. Viewers were not interested, it seems. Not, that is, until it touched the white world when a white policeman was killed.

See also:

Missing Pretty White Woman Syndrome – Conclusion – the third of three parts
Essay on Violence Against Black Women: Four Past Cases The Media Ignored – how violence against black women gets little or no press
Black and Missing but not forgotten – a blog
Romona Moore, a missing black woman
Henry Louis Wallace – killed seven black women before the police got serious about finding him.
The pure white woman stereotype

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on Thu Dec 27th 2007 at 19:01:17 Stephanie B.

These beautiful Black girls deserve more than just a footnote in the back of the paper. These girls/women should have been on the forefront not the back. Then again, look who’s running the media? It’s overwhelmingly white men with Eurocentric perspectives.

Here’s a tribute video in memory of the victims of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace at:

These young ladies cry out to be remembered.

There’s a forum at Cynteria Haven that is dedicated to all fallen Black angels at:

http://p099.ezboard.com/bangelsresort

I’ll post more on this later.

Stephanie

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on Fri Dec 28th 2007 at 02:51:20 Stephanie B.

Chandra Levy and Laci Peterson are the most recognizable missing White women in America, but precious few knew about Latasha Norman and Theresa Bunn. Both were beautiful Black women who went missing and were found dead last month. Here are a couple of articles on the two women at:

http://p099.ezboard.com/fangelsresortfrm69.showMessage?topicID=91.topic

Latasha Norman’s body was found around the same time police discovered the body of a White woman in Kansas a thousand miles away. The latter got coverage because she was a college student with a shady past. Latasha Norman was a serious young intelligent college student who went missing in early part of November. At first the national news media didn’t pick up the story. It wasn’t until the police chief of Jackson MS complained to the local media about the lack of coverage did the national media finally came around. But it was too late.

As for the Theresa Bunn Case, it didn’t get the attention of mainstream media at all. The case was well-known in the city of Chicago where two Black women went missing and were found burned beyond recognition.

I wish the media value Black women lives like they do White women.

Stephanie B.

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on Fri Dec 28th 2007 at 21:52:45 abagond

I added Latasha Norman and Theresa Bunn to the first list in the post.

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on Fri Dec 28th 2007 at 23:42:47 Stephanie B.

Thanks Abagond. All the women above deserved recognition period.

Steph

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on Sat Feb 9th 2008 at 21:46:20 Stephanie B.

Also,

For those who don’t know about the forgotten victims of serial killers, Mr. Hudson and I put out a tribute video in memory of the victims of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace. All the women were attractive Black women.

Link:

Rest in peace, ladies.

Stephanie

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on Sat Feb 9th 2008 at 22:00:15 abagond

Thanks.

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on Sun Feb 17th 2008 at 21:33:46 https://abagond.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/the-missing-white-woman-syndrome/

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/the-missing-white-woman-syndrome/

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on Mon Mar 31st 2008 at 22:52:37 Stephanie B.

The missing white women syndrone is part of the racist ideology that places white female lives as of utmost importance than many others. It’s part of the apple-pie American ideology that teaches that nothing bad ever happens to them unless some stranger abducts or kidnaps one of their own.

Whereas the cult of true womanhood teaches that white women are to rescued, therefore they are helpless and in need of protection, while Black women are assumed as being “in control” of the situation.

These views play the part in media’s perception of missing Black and White women in America.

Stephanie B.

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on Tue May 13th 2008 at 06:17:43 FuturePharmD

Latasha would have been twenty-one years old a few weeks ago. R.I.P. dear. Where did you find that picture of her? I’ve never seen it…

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on Tue May 13th 2008 at 11:19:31 abagond

It was from a news article.

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on Tue Nov 4th 2008 at 17:24:19 BNW

“For those who don’t know about the forgotten victims of serial killers, Mr. Hudson and I put out a tribute video in memory of the victims of serial killer Henry Louis Wallace. All the women were attractive Black women. – Stephanie B. “

Henry Louis Wallace being black may be the reason the case got very little attention in the media. Maybe the media did not want to let the world see the crimes of a black man. Most black murderers and serial killers do not get any media attention, whatever race the victim is. And it is not very often that victims of serial killers get any attention by the media, regardless of race.

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on Thu Jan 15th 2009 at 14:45:31 jen

I have to agree with this, and I admit I only recognized 4 of the white women.
However, are any of the black women portrayed prostitutes, drug addicts, or street people? Not that they look like it, but those could be older pics of them. And that could have something to do with it…there are plenty of white women that live high risk lives that go missing and do not get the attention that the above white women have gotten. Just a thought.

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on Thu Jan 15th 2009 at 14:46:50 jen

and if reference to Henry Louis Wallace – I was under the impression that black serial killers are very rare, it seems to be a white mans domain.

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on Thu Jan 15th 2009 at 17:10:27 Davida

Do you know if the women on your first list came from families with money or power?

I wonder if there are more differences between the two lists than skin color. Maybe its just that people from well to do family have more power to push the story. There are 1000s of white children and women who go missing who never make the news…but they are from middle class or poor families who do not have resources to push media and searches.

Could it be more of a wealth issue and a power issue. If something happens to a weathy black family or Hispanic or asian family you would hear about it.

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on Fri Jan 16th 2009 at 06:03:58 abagond

Most black women are not “prostitutes, drug addicts, or street people”. Most are hard-working and trying to do the best they can. I assume the same of the black women listed above until I know otherwise. Just like with the white women.

Of the black women, the only one I know much about is Tamika Huston. And that is probably because her aunt had connections to the media, so her story did get out, though no where near the scale of, say, Laci Peterson.

Working-class white women are rarely covered, so class does play a part.

But so does race. There is one case I can think of where two girls at a high school went missing and one got covered way more than the other: the white one (the other one was black).

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on Fri Jan 16th 2009 at 15:24:57 La Reyna

Thank you Abagond for setting things straight. I want those women to read about missing/murdered black women instead of making erroneous assumptions.

Steph

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on Fri Jan 16th 2009 at 17:37:37 Davida

i would never assume the black women are pro’s, drug users or street people. My sister worked under cover vice and narc for a long time. She is a blonde haired white women…if most pros etc. were black women then my sister woul dnot have been so good at her job. Thats a ridiculous statement.

Most preditors are creatures of opportunity, so it makes sense in the case of Henry Louis Wallace that his victems were people he knew or in his community. Most violence done to women is done by men they know…regardless of skin color.

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on Sat Mar 28th 2009 at 20:19:08 Chris Evans

Uh, a question that no one has addressed is…what about the men? Why is it that missing women is the only thing up for discussion?

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on Sat Mar 28th 2009 at 22:07:07 racerealist

Derrrrrr… maybe because the country is 70% white, the media chooses these girls because they will garner the most ratings? Maybe parents get more concerned over a photo of a young girl who looks like their daughter, or their daughter’s friends?

Maybe (SHOCKER!) the media doesn’t really care about these girls, and just uses their faces and scary stories to get eyeballs. Maybe these “missing white girl” stories are just a symptom of 24-hour news networks preferring to fill time with “manufactured news” over Girls Gone Wild infomercials.

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on Sat Mar 28th 2009 at 22:43:40 mynameisnyname

Actually, the U.S. is 66% white, but 70% is a close enough round-up, I guess.

Yep, instead of exploring and challenging racism, just find ways to justify it. Unbelievable.

Abagond, put your foot down and stop letting these idiots take over your blog!

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on Fri Aug 7th 2009 at 12:24:35 Nubian

Stepha Henry was sooo pretty and our birthdays are the same day 9/22 weird

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on Fri Aug 7th 2009 at 13:56:32 Black&German

I just read “Half of a Yellow Sun” (great book, BTW, if you like gut-wrenching African literature) and in it the character Richard (Englishman living in Biafra during the war) is showing some visiting American reporters around and they are eager to learn more about a white man who had been murdered. The war had been going on for years with thousands, maybe millions of Biafrans slaughtered but it wasn’t until one white man was killed that the rest of the world took an interest. He called it “The 1 to 100 rule. One white person is worth 100 black people.”

Sort of like slavery. It didn’t bother white people until they heard accounts of “nearly white” people being held as slaves. Then they saw the travesty in it. Whatever.

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on Sat Aug 8th 2009 at 07:59:43 abagond

Wow, that is so true: The 1 to 100 rule.

If the hundreds of people getting killed every year in my part of New York (Jamaica, Queens) were white it would be all the news could talk about.

Another example from New York: so long as only heroin addicts (mostly black) were dying of Aids most people did not even know what it was. It was just some strange thing heroin addicts got. Who cares. But once gay men (mostly white) started dying of it, it was world news. Suddenly it was a terrible, dangerous thing. Am I supposed to believe race had nothing to do with that?

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on Mon Aug 10th 2009 at 15:58:54 Tyrone

Common Sense!!!

If blackmen don’t value the lives of other blackwomen and blackmen, don’t act surprised when people of other races don’t give a damn’ either. When we talk about crimes against blackwomen, our people always leave out universal truths that we don’t want to deal with. Why do 90% of black politicians in this country defend violent blackmen who rape, rob, and kill blackfolk as if they were klansmen or skinheads? Why do so many sistas in this country defend self-hating blackmen? They disrespect sistas with impunity, and it’s okay because they’re blackmen! Blackwomen, as a group, have suffered from slavery the most, not blackmen. They’re black and female.

Is the media gonna find religion and emphasize the sacredness of all women who are victims of violent crime, No! But, we as black people should demand the same concern that’s given to women of other races be given to our queens as well. Anything less, Is Unacceptable!!!

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on Mon Aug 10th 2009 at 19:46:52 laromana

Tyrone,
Thanks for your honest analysis of the way MOST BM don’t take responsibility for the protection of BW and how this needs to change.

It is very troubling to see MANY BM promoting ANTI-BW HATE by publicly TRASHING the HUMANITY, DIGNITY, and FEMININITY of BW in the media and in American society at large. There have been several recent HEINOUS CRIMES (the Asia McGowan murder, the Dunbar Village gang rape of a mother and her son, the murder of a BW/WM couple-the Pietzaks, etc.) commited against BW that have resulted from the ANTI-BW HATE that MANY BM are cultivating in American culture.

Until MOST BM reject sickening, criminal, ANTI-BW attitudes/actions, BW will not receive EQUAL PROTECTION from violent crimes that NON-BW receive.

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on Tue Aug 11th 2009 at 19:40:25 Black&German

“But once gay men (mostly white) started dying of it, it was world news.”

Funny, isn’t it? Tuberculosis wasn’t in the news for a long time until it started up again in Eastern Europe. Now, everybody’s worried about it.

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on Wed Sep 30th 2009 at 02:52:55 The Joker

The Elizabeth SMart incident especially made me angry. At the exact same time she was kidnapped a little black girl in another city was kidnapped and held hostage. She broke free of her restraints and told the police. Not a single news story about it yet the country was so devestated over poor Elizabeth Smart.

AND, nothing even happened to her. She wasn’t beaten. She wasn’t raped. She wasn’t tortured. Nothing, nada.

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on Sun Nov 1st 2009 at 16:12:51 leigh204

@The Joker:

I remember learning about this child’s story after the fact. I thought to myself, “What a brave, little girl!” She deserved just as much coverage as Elizabeth Smart. If she had been a blonde, blue-eyed, white child, this story would have made the news.

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on Mon Nov 2nd 2009 at 23:03:54 alwaysright101

has anyone heard about the recent story about a black man who killed around 8 black women? Anthony Sowell i think his name is.

My problem with the story is the fact that that many people went missing in all that time…and nothing was done. i highly doubt the police ever looked into the whole situation.

with the way black women are treated by both media and the gestapo its actually surprising that black women are not often the victims of white men the way they are black men because if you want to get away with a crime or at least almost get away with a crime, you are likelier to get away with it if you targeted a black woman rather a white woman simply because no one in society seems to care about us.

chances are this scumbag murderer will go to jail, not because he killed 8 black women (if not more) but because white society does not want black people on the street if they can help it. whatever the reason, hopefully he pays for killing those innocent women.

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on Mon Nov 2nd 2009 at 23:11:07 alwaysright101

also its weird, but in a sense at least via media celebrity deaths relates to this.

when heath ledger died, it seemed like alot didnt mind the tv constantly talk about him day after day. but when michael jackson died alot of people were complaining saying that its not news and that they would rather hear about the soldiers in iraq, and how they deserve more honor than MJ, even though there are 365 days in a year its ironic they wait until a celebrity dies to give a crap, these same people complaining are the same people that don’t even care about the soldiers and if anything were using their deaths or hard work for a hate agenda they had going against MJ. heck the people complaining about cnn and msnbc’s coverage came from the same people that didnt watch those channels in the first place.

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on Mon Nov 2nd 2009 at 23:14:30 abagond

That sort of thing is not at all uncommon: someone killing a half a dozen or more black women before the police start to take it seriously. It is a perfect example of how black life matters way less than white life in America to the police and the press. I have done posts on two such cases:

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/the-rocky-mount-killer/

https://abagond.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/henry-louis-wallace/

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on Tue Nov 3rd 2009 at 02:35:54 La Reyna

Alwaysright,

The police never have searched for the missing Cleveland women because they’re not interested in finding Black women in the inner city there. Had Mr. Sowell targeted White women, the police would have been on it the minute she went missing and was found dead in his house. They would have arrested him sooner, swiftly convicted him, then put him to death.

The Henry Louis Wallace murders are an exception in that the judge and jury sentenced him to the electric chair. How many murderers get the electric chair for murdering someone Black? Next to zero.

There is a double standard in how women murder victims are treated racially in still racialistic, patriarchial America today.

La Reyna.

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on Tue Nov 3rd 2009 at 02:37:10 La Reyna

Here is the link to the horrific finding of the bodies in Cleveland and the arrest of Mr. Sowell:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/31/ohio.cleveland.bodies/index.html?eref=rss_crime

La Reyna

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on Tue Nov 3rd 2009 at 03:22:58 La Reyna

Abagond,

Here are two more links to video and an article regarding race and missing people at:

http://httpjournalsaolcomjenjer6steph.blogspot.com/2009/10/while-la-sleeps-young-black-women-in-la.html

http://httpjournalsaolcomjenjer6steph.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-and-missing-but-not-forgotten.html

Read and watch, then weep!

La Reyna

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on Fri Jan 22nd 2010 at 04:39:15 tulio

Here we go again.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/lynn_university_student_from_h.html

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on Tue Jun 15th 2010 at 14:43:30 E.

Dear Abagond,

This blog is magnificent. straight forward and TRUE. Each one I read hit a home run. this is my first time ever reading about you…… It will not be my last.

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on Fri Dec 31st 2010 at 03:43:16 AppocalypticQueen

There is another element at play here. White women who go missing and whom are later found murdered are subjected to the undignified process of having their personal, sexual lives and last hours scrutinised.
When a pretty, white young woman is murdered, you can bet that the media reporting is as much about sex as it is about concern. For instance, all her last hours are reported in LURID detail, of how she was raped, tortured and mutilated before she died and the media appear to have a glorified appetite for this. I don’t agree with the over-reporting of young white women to the disadvantage of Black women and men however these white women who do receive media coverage end up being violated in the press all over again.

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on Wed Mar 2nd 2011 at 05:51:28 Doh

While you do have a very valid point, its just blatantly obvious to any one that watches american news- esp. nancy grace. I would like to point out that you can’t be a racist that complains about racism, it just sounds ridiculous. Noone ever listens to a hypocrite – where are your photos of missing: asian women, mexican women, cuban women, arab women.

the truth is: http://www.aei.org/article/24970

racism is wrong when a white person does it, racism is wrong when a black person does it, racism is wrong when an asian person does it…..

what your article is saying is that “missing white woman syndrome” is wrong and offensive, but “missing black woman syndrome” is ok.

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on Wed Aug 24th 2011 at 01:22:44 Varisa

The media don’t care they don’t think they are just as important they only think about themselves. When they actually should talk about other as if they were themselves or someone just as meaningful and important. Not just going to work to get paid. Kindness delivered efficiently. If only money didn’t existed in the 1st place, kindness wouldn’t have been replaced by money…
Human lives, happiness, wealth and wellbeing is just equally as important.

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on Sun Feb 5th 2012 at 19:21:07 Nom De Plume

There is a new show on the TV One cable network called “Find Our Missing.”

http://www.tvone.tv/shows/find-our-missing

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on Sun Feb 5th 2012 at 19:54:02 Jack in the Box

Even worse, Black boys are rarely, if ever, mentioned anywhere when they go missing.

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on Mon Jul 15th 2013 at 04:27:17 Rick Miller

They probably figure we have enough blacks and don’t need to be looking for the lost ones, but seriously the Sowell case they were all pro’s, crackheads and street people.

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on Sat Sep 28th 2013 at 22:00:18 mary burrell

The victims of Anthony Sowell didn’t get coverage either. I believe Sowell has been sentenced to death. Nobody cared about those women because they were poor and probably drug addicts. Unless you are white and by Eurocentric standards attractive, black women and missing black people in general will not be acknowledged by the news media. I liked the TV One, Our Missing with Epatha Merkerson.

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on Mon Oct 14th 2013 at 19:18:08 HonestJohn

Mary, they were not ‘probably drug addicts’, they WERE drug addicts. That is
precisely how he was able to lure them back to the death house. Not even the
smell of death would scare them away. There was a stench permeating his house and neighborhood for years. They tried to blame it on the poor guy who had a sausage making company for the smell. So much so that the city made him install all new equipment that nearly or DID put him out of business.
One woman who did get out alive peeked into another room and saw a headless woman but still when in just to hit that crack-pipe.

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on Tue Oct 15th 2013 at 13:05:12 abagond

@ HonestJohn: Two comments deleted for using Mock Ebonics.

https://abagond.wordpress.com/comment-policy/

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on Mon Sep 29th 2014 at 15:38:55 thwack

Hannah Graham is a 19 year old UVA student missing for 2 weeks after last being seen outside a bar at 1:00am.

The media “storm” is covering every angle EXCEPT her friends and what they were doing in the hours before she went missing.

Hmmm….?

Beer bongs?
Shots?
XTC?

The drinking age is 21 in Virginia

I suspect her white friends are covering their asses on the advice of their parents.

White people are smart like that.

They have a black male suspect in custody who they are “squeezing” for info but so far no puss has come out of him?

Perhaps they should “squeeze” harder?

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on Sat Oct 18th 2014 at 18:34:55 thwack

In addition, law enforcement has been silent on Hannah Graham’s online activities and her computer?

Why?

And they have release no info regarding the suspect Jesse L Matthews’ online activities and his computer?

Why?

Could this have been an internet “date/hookup” that went horribly wrong?

Why is a young attractive white girl walking the streets drunk and alone at 1:00am

and then she is last seen walking away with some big black guy with dreadlocks she never met before?

with his arm around her?

huh?

I have not seen/found any statements by law enforcement regarding the digital activities of graham except for a comment that she “texted a friend that she was looking for a party”

What party?

who invited her?

Hmmmmm…?

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on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 20:47:01 EPGAH

I thought Blacks LIKED it when they get away with rape/murder?
Henry Louis Wallace was a BLACK serial rapist and murderer.
So many whites are being murdered by BLACK thugs they think are boyfriends.

Political Correctness is the War On Noticing, right?
So of COURSE police are not going to “notice” when they could get fired for noticing!

And there are several movies supposedly “based on real life” where serial killers use sex&drugs to lure in victims.

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on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 20:56:48 EPGAH

It never occurs to such people, of course, that by going somewhere hidden to do something illegal outside the aegis of law-enforcement, that something illegal can be done TO THEM, because they ARE outside the aegis of law-enforcement.

My LEO friends call these PSK or NHI cases:
·Public Service Killings
·No HUMANS Involved
If you work in a prison or in law enforcement AT ALL long enough, you start to understand that criminals just aren’t human. Oxford University claimed it was from lack of a pre-frontal lobe, spiritual people say it’s from lack of a soul, there are crazier theories, but whatever it is, they’re just bad to a point where you can’t call them human, and even “savages” seems like too high praise for most of them!

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on Fri Feb 12th 2016 at 22:06:31 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)

Take this example: two white male pick up artists who had a coffee shop in North Carolina were outed for their anti-white female ways and guess what happened, white women banded together and white men who funded his business or were partnered with him got him thrown out of business and shut his coffee shop down and now the two white men were forced out of business and into relative obscurity.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/01/jared-rutledge-pickup-artist-c-v-r.html
When is the last time black men have banded together to get a tommy sotomayor excommunicated and thrown out of business, when was the last time black men banded together to boycott calling black women b-thces in hoes,
when was the last time a large group of black men were out in the streets protesting for the missing and maimed black women…i can’t even recall one time.

If the likes of Tommy Sotomayors attacks on black women “prove” that black men always disrespect black women then pointing to the black men who ride for black women and don’t say negative things about black women should also prove the black men love black women.

An argument every bit as silly, but just as logical, given the original line of reasoning.

As to the example you posted. That kinda under cuts your argument. So let me get this straight – The bravest, the boldest, the most fearless form of protest you could come up with for white men standing up for white women, was them buying their cappuccinos and lattes at another coffee shop.

Yeah right.

Let’s see how true to their beliefs those white men would have been had they faced guns and batons and police like the many brothers who cam out IN FORCE for Sandra Bland,

Or the brothers who came out in FORCE for Rekia Boyd

Yeah black men don’t care about black women being killed. Do we ?

Who do you think the brothers were fighting in the Baltimore riots ?

In the Ferguson riots ?

They were fighting for the freedom and justice of black people AS A WHOLE

So yes that include black women by default.

Now let’s see those white men who you are bigguppin go up against guys with machine guns who are itching to blow their head off.

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on Thu May 23rd 2019 at 20:44:37 reynagirl14

Here’s my take on how society lacked compassion for Black female victims of crime. It’s a critical look on how society, people in general, law enforcement, and the media doesn’t care about Black victims of crime and how stereotypes and racist mythology play a role in treatment of victims and victims’ families.

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on Thu May 23rd 2019 at 20:45:11 reynagirl14

Here’s my take on how society lacked compassion for Black female victims of crime. It’s a critical look on how society, people in general, law enforcement, and the media doesn’t care about Black victims of crime and how stereotypes and racist mythology play a role in treatment of victims and victims’ families.

Link: https://abagond.wordpress.com/2017/03/24/missingdcgirls/

Reynagirl14

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on Thu May 23rd 2019 at 20:56:29 reynagirl14

My favorite blogger Brotha Wolf also wrote a blog post on why there’s no sympathy for Black female victims of crime:

https://brothawolf.wordpress.com/2019/03/16/why-is-there-no-sympathy-for-black-female-victims-of-crime/

Reynagirl14

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on Thu May 23rd 2019 at 20:58:55 reynagirl14

Rick, you ought to be ashamed of yourself denigrating Black victims of Anthony Sowell. These women had families. They had lives before circumstances unfortunately took their lives. Have some compassion for the women before passing judgment upon them.

May the Imperial Avenue women rests in peace and in power.

Reynagirl14

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on Sun Feb 2nd 2020 at 02:23:58 reynagirl14

Reblogged this on Steph's Blog and commented:

These beautiful Black girls deserve more than just a footnote in the back of the paper. These girls/women should have been on the forefront not the back. Then again, look who’s running the media? It’s overwhelmingly white men with Eurocentric perspectives.

Chandra Levy and Laci Peterson are the most recognizable missing White women in America, but precious few knew about Latasha Norman and Theresa Bunn. Both were beautiful Black women who went missing and were found dead last month. Here are a couple of articles on the two women at:

http://p099.ezboard.com/fangelsresortfrm69.showMessage?topicID=91.topic

Latasha Norman’s body was found around the same time police discovered the body of a White woman in Kansas a thousand miles away. The latter got coverage because she was a college student with a shady past. Latasha Norman was a serious young intelligent college student who went missing in early part of November. At first the national news media didn’t pick up the story. It wasn’t until the police chief of Jackson MS complained to the local media about the lack of coverage did the national media finally came around. But it was too late.

As for the Theresa Bunn Case, it didn’t get the attention of mainstream media at all. The case was well-known in the city of Chicago where two Black women went missing and were found burned beyond recognition.

I wish the media value Black women lives like they do White women.

The missing white women syndrone is part of the racist ideology that places white female lives as of utmost importance than many others. It’s part of the apple-pie American ideology that teaches that nothing bad ever happens to them unless some stranger abducts or kidnaps one of their own.

Whereas the cult of true womanhood teaches that white women are to rescued, therefore they are helpless and in need of protection, while Black women are assumed as being “in control” of the situation.

These views play the part in media’s perception of missing Black and White women in America.

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on Wed Jun 1st 2022 at 23:27:44 Paul Kruger

Most of the black victims were killed by a black guy, so it’s silly to blame racism for their deaths.

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on Thu Jun 2nd 2022 at 01:46:08 gro jo

Most of white victims are killed by whites, doesn’t stop you from blaming blacks for crime.

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on Thu Jun 2nd 2022 at 03:46:07 Paul Kruger

Whites commit far less crime against blacks than they do against us.

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