its been brought up in the past few years but no one is really sayin anything about the media's penchant for missing white women aka
the missing white women syndrome. have you heard of Stepha Henry? what about Tamika Huston? or Shirley Geanes? These are all
black women who have gone missing within the past 5 years and there are hundreds more that we haven't heard about. Stepha is the latest victim (that i know about), she went missing about a month and a half ago in Miami. The police are still lookin for people who might know anything about her whereabouts. Instead of reporting about Stepha on MSNBC, they continued coverage about Paris Hilton saying
"Paris Hilton coverage was more important". The media is still in love with (white)
damsels in distress“There are several common threads,” Clark said. “The victims that get the most coverage are female rather than male. They are white, in general, rather than young people of color. They are at least middle class, if not upper middle class. Such cases fit a convenient narrative pattern that storytellers have used for more than a century, a pattern whose design still incorporates remnants of an outmoded view of women and black people and their roles in society.”
linkage: What about Stepha?; Missing Minorities; What's Missing?
Labels: bullshit, everyday occurances
