Forgotten Victims; Black Kids

[ismnotwasm]

(I was in the store and the cover of "Jet" said something like, "where's the outrage?" Americas missing little Black Girls" so I went looking for something like. Every missing child is a tragedy, but Black children do not get anywhere near the national attention a little white girl will. I don't know what the specific set of circumstances ARE required for attention; blond? White? Middle class?)

While the entire world is obsessed with the murder of Little Miss Colorado, Miami's Angel is largely forgotten. Miami's most notorious murder mystery remains a cold case--without much fanfare. In two other comparable cases, 5-year-old Rilya Wilson was missing for more than a year before she was reported to authorities. 4-year-old Caylee Anthony was missing for one month before her mother filed a missing person report. While Caylee Anthony's case dominated countless international headlines, little Rilya Wilson received nothing similar. CNN's Nancy Grace covered Caylee Anthony's story daily, for more than two months with no new leads, no case updates or nothing new to report. Where was Nancy Grace when Rilya Wilson was discovered missing?


We all know who Jon-Benet Ramsey is, a pretty blond girl who was murdered in Colorado. You probably don't know the name of Cynteria Phillips, an attractive 13-year-old black girl who was abused as a child, neglected by the state and was raped and murdered in South Florida.The killing of Cynteria, though heinous and shocking, did not ignite the hyper-charged media frenzy of the cases of Jon-Benet Ramsey, Caylee Anthony, Jessica Lunsford, Samantha Runnion or Danielle Van Dam.

The race of a victim plays a huge role in how their case is covered by the national media. The gruesome murder of nine-year-old Mya Lyons is evidence of this. Mya went missing from her Chicago home and was found with multiple stab wounds in an alley near her backyard. The crime went unsolved for nearly three years before her father was charged with capital murder. You would imagine a case like this make the national headlines, but Mya Lyons' murder was never covered by any national news organization.

Dan Luthian, a reporter at CNN, stated that if a black celebrity's child went missing, it would mount heavy media coverage. But Caylee Anthony was not the daughter of any celebrity, and she was not notable herself, yet she received continuous national media coverage. So why must a black child be a celebrity's child to be noticed?

http://missingblackkids.webs.com/

[chervilant]

1. I've met a woman whose child was bullied so severely,

that he attempted to dash across four lanes of a major highway in order to escape his tormentors. His slight, eight year old body was so mutilated by the multiple cars that struck him that the police thought at first they'd found the corpse of a dog.

There has been no effort by the police or this child's school to charge the bullies that chased him onto the freeway. No media coverage, nothing.

And, yes, this precious little boy was black.

[redqueen]

2. No one who pays any attention can deny this pattern.

It goes further than just missing kids too, but this is one of the more egregious forms of this particular manifestation of racism.