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64,000 Missing Women in America All Have One Important Thing in Common
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Ash Sparrow
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Story gives me the creeps
See You Next Wednesday
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Missing =/= Runaways.
Valkerionseven
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Known thing in the black community.
Piston Hyundai
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This isn't new. Half of you guys probably don't know LaToyia Figueroa by name, but likely remember Natalee Holloway.
this is part of the reason why they're missing, people assuming this shit.
Scar Mortico
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Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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What makes them big?
I said "seems like"...
Because... ?
Angelus Errare
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You know what makes them big? BECAUSE they're white girls.
Two different things are at play here, though there is a possible connection. Minorities are more likely to go missing and minorities are less likely to have their missing covered by media outlets.
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Deleted member 47027
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Ting-a-ling, this is it. It's horrible.
MisterGrey3000
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Piston Hyundai
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Already said this in another thread today, but news networks are fucking vultures.
Yeah. My apt complex was part of the investigation of a missing young black girl (amber alert) and that was the first missing persons case where I've met with an officer at the door and told him I don't know anything about it. I felt bad that I couldn't do any more.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised that this happens more often (kidnappings etc) to minorities than whites. :\ I bet most of them had gone unreported too because how mistrustful they are to the police these days.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised that this happens more often (kidnappings etc) to minorities than whites. :\ I bet most of them had gone unreported too because how mistrustful they are to the police these days.
Angelus Errare
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Probably.
From my own personal experience in NYC when young black women go missing a lot of the time when it is reported they treat the case as a runaway.
I just have trouble thinking the majority of kidnappers/murders are thinking about that.
Tell me more.
http://www.theafrolounge.com/2013/1...black-people-being-murdered-for-their-organs/
Not surprising since there is allegedly a black market organ trade for blacks.
Not surprising since there is allegedly a black market organ trade for blacks.
Tokubetsu
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They bring this up in the article. Law Enforcement seems to automatically assume foul play is involved on the victim's part or that it's a runaway. Right off the bat.
Assuming you're asking an honest question the thing that they all have in common is that they are all young black women.
Grizzlyjin
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It's certainly possible. There are a few known abductors who targeted minorities because they knew there would be less police involvement. But generally most people tend to abduct their own race. You stick out less when everyone else looks like you.
Not disagreeing, but if you think about it they don't give much of a shit about ugly white girls, either. Or obese any-person, if they're not already famous or a bigshot around town. When was the last time you saw the national media focused on a missing white girl named Tonya who was last seen turning tricks and crashing at a meth house in Cincinnati? Or Shelly the 400lb secretary who didn't come to work one day?
If you're beautiful and missing, Nancy Grace might get on it.
Probably so. I guess its kinda the same thing with shootings too in the news.
Angelus Errare
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Problem with this argument is that even if the woman is beautiful as long as she's black she's still not making the news.
tycoonheart
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The fact that they're white.
unreal. smh
You gotta be real cynical trying to pick apart missing person statistics.
Kenshin001
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The kid in the picture is a child beauty queen. Holloway was a beautiful young woman killed in a foreign country, Laci Petersen was killed by her cheating husband. They all have some element of soap opera that is going to appeal to a mass audience. I can see the anger about the LaToyia Figueroa case but single mother killed by ex boyfriend isn't exactly ratings material and that's how the media works.
Manmademan
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I agree with him, if by "big" you mean "gets tons of media exposure." "Big" news is largely manufactured by news outlets- unless it's something that happens to go viral through social media, and good luck with that one regarding a missing persons case.
This isn't an accident, and just another way that broadcast and cable news are fucking pathetic.
edit: you can also throw "hot white female teacher is fucking her student" in this pile as well. plenty of ugly teachers are fucking their students, but no one cares. plenty of men are fucking their students, but those guys are portrayed significantly differently by the media.
There was a lot of attention to Laci Peterson when she was just a missing person.
Devolution
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You don't think black girls who go missing might be in beauty pageants? You don't think black women are killed and dumped by cheating and abusive husbands?
Manmademan
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I'm struggling with the "woman killed by cheating husband" is news, but "woman killed by vengeful ex boyfriend" is "fuck that, we've seen this one before."
As far as I know missing persons are most of the time runaways regardless of race. Poverty and history of abuse play a more important role in that.
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