Black Women are People too…
Posted on July 29th, 2005 by Mad Bull
Look what I stumbled across this morning! A lot of people have been saying that the media tends to cover only white women who go missing… They really don’t consider it news when black people go missing. Well, a black woman went missing and a blogger drew the media’s attention to it and they mentiond it a bit on their networks… see what blogging can do? This blogger made the point that black women are people too!
“His point,” Carlson said of Blair, “was the obvious one. And it is that black women from city centers, from urban areas, who disappear get none of the coverage that those like Natalee Holloway get, who are obviously from a different demographic. And, you know, it’s impossible to deny the truth of this.”
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I agree…but like I have said before…CNN decides what is news!
No denying that if you black its less newsworthy.In the height of the Elian saga there was a case about a little Haitian girl fighting extradition that barely made the news.It would have helped if her country was at “war” with the US or maybe if she was a cute little blonde kid
Isn’t this the truth. But this difference in how the media views us is so evident in many ways. Kidlet # 2 was heard to comment on an ad the other day about deodorant….their was the white guy representing the deodorant and a black guy representing the body odour. Kidlet # 2 said…”of course it would be the black guy who is body odour!”
But I do hope that they find her safe and sound…even if it does not seem very hopeful now.
So true, but for how long will the media focus on this woman. Natalee case has been international news for how many months now. Notonly news, but Larry King and all the other talk heads.
Let’s hope this woman is found alive and bought back to her child and family.
Fo real. A similar disparity can be seen in the coverage and treatment of Cuban and Haitain refugees.
I never rate fox/cnn from long back so that doesn’t surprise me. though considering that disappearing white women are have more interesting stories. (remembering that al bundy movie )