Out of the three e-mail boxes I have for this site, two of them I use quite frequently. Unfortunately for both boxes, I regularly get slammed with spam like you would not believe. Another unfortunate thing is that because I regularly get e-mails from folks unknown to me, I have to comb through many of these e-mails to find the ‘real’ ones.
Here are a few e-mails I promised I would put out there for you–the readers, but I just did not have the time
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MISSING BLACK WOMEN, who would know??????
By George Cook www.letstalkhonestly.com
I’m sure by now most of you may have heard of the case of Latasha Norman a Jackson State University student who was recently reported missing and found dead.
You are also probably aware of the lack of media attention the case got. What’s especially galling in the case of Latasha Norman is that she was everything a parent could ask for.
She was a college student, active in the church, and working a job. She was the type of daughter any parent would want and if she had been white we would have inundated with stories about her constantly. Hell they may have put up a statue by now.
But that of course is not the case. Latasha Norman was black and could barely get five minutes of air time. Natalee Holloway who did not deserve whatever happened to her was out partying, drinking, and having sex with a guy she just met and two years later she can still be the #1 news story on cable news. Not only does she still get air time but there are panels of legal “experts” discussing her case ,TWO YEARS LATER!
There is the case of Emily Sander a young white women better known as Zoey Zane. Zoey Zane was her porn name. Sadly she went missing and was later found dead. She led a life that sadly may have lead to her death and set a bad example for young girls but she still got more coverage than Latasha Norman.
What kind of message are we sending when one girl who is doing everything society ask of her and can’t get coverage for her case and another who was doing things we don’t want minors to do can dominate the news headlines?
There are more current cases of missing black women:
Denise Hart of Schenectady NY
Elmora Charles of Tucson Arizona.
Celcila Engrums- Fayetteville NC
Sadly there are many more and to find out more and I would suggest an excellent blog on this subject Black & Missing but not Forgotten. You can check it out at: blackandmissing.blogspot.com/
It’s obvious that the main stream media is not going to cover these cases with the attention they deserve. I think it’s time we ask black radio, newspapers, web sites, television , and magazines to step up and aggressively cover these cases. We have to help our OWN! No one else is going to do it.
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Jesse Jackson Vs. Barack Obama – Who Did Better? (The Mo’Kelly Report)
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http://www.savingourchildren.bravehost.com/index.htm
Our Nation is in a state of emergency. Every 40 seconds a child is reported missing in the United States. Of these missing children, 33 percent are African American children who are being torn from their families. It is crucial that the African American Community in our country become more involved in the safety of these precious children. There are astronomical numbers of abused, missing and murdered African American children that fail to get the needed exposure in the media. Very rarely are their precious little faces posted on milk cartons and bulletin boards, or reported on network and cable news shows.
My name is Jan, and my mission is to make the African American communities in our country aware of the plight of these children and to make them a community/national priority.
For more information, please call Saving Our Children at:
516-333-9882
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