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Invisible Black Women Pt 3: Have You Seen Her
November 20th, 2007
In relation to missing black women, Essence ask, Have You Seen Her? The answer is probably not, because the media hasn’t bothered to show her to you.
You’d think at least a pretty girl like Phylicia Moore would garner some attention; ummmm, no!
Not that attractiveness should matter; but of course it does. Even if you’re white, good luck getting MSNBC, Fox and CNN to plaster pictures of your missing loved one if she looks like Rosanne Bar. You’d still stand a better chance than the relative of just about any black woman though.
Phylicia, like Natalie Holloway was an 18 year old senior who disappeared on a class trip. She wasn’t in Ghana to party though, she was there to donate books to orphaned children suffering from AIDS. She went missing this spring - not a word from the media. Mrs. Holloway went missing 2 years ago, and Fox does an hour long special on her this summer.
Also this summer, Stepha Henry went missing. She actually got a torent of coverage for a Black woman or child; all of two days.
That’s until she got bumped for the all important Paris going to jail play by play. But who cares about a Negro when a white woman is crying?
All the world must stop spinning when the salt of the earth sheds a tear.
Even Tallahassee.com, the Florida paper that was good about covering Stepha Henry through the summer isn’t bothering anymore. Why should they though; as of September 24th when I called the Miami-Dade Police Department, they aren’t bothering anymore either.
Dunbar Village, they’re silent
Megan Williams, they’re silent
Darfur systematic rape, they’e silent
I guess Black women just don’t matter.
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D - thanks for putting this out there - I had no Idea. So sad.
Yobachi! well keep it real as always!
thanks for spreading the word about our sisters.
On another note:
please view this video…history that i wasn’t aware of.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ7mmMe4klQ
thanks
bria (ivent)
Yeah, I’m familiar with Hottentot Venus; but I learned some new details from that. I didn’t know about the display all the way up until 2002.
You know it is sad commentary when we can watch the Video Vixen on numerous interviews, but we cannot hear one word about our lost and missing daughters. It tells us just how vile this world has become. As you mentioned, if it was a White pretty girl, half the nation would be out looking for her.
I recalled seeing Stepha Henry’s Mom in Florida going from club to club asking questions about her missing daughter. I remember feeling so sad that I could not join her because she was all alone. I even called a few groups to find out why no one was there helping her. Then it brings to mind the missing White women and how the country will mobilize to find them, including special search groups. Then we find out later, the husband probably killed her. This is nothing new to me. There was a time that Black folk were not newsworthy at all. We were just not put in the media. Not much has changed. If we do not demand that these news media outlets keep focus on our daughters, no one will ever know they are missing.
I am proud that you are keeping focus on these missing young women. They are the daughters of our people who all had so much to offer the world. Where are they? And why are we not shouting to the media that our daughters are just as important as yours? We need to collectively continue this. As you can see, Natalie Holloway is back in the news after two years. We cannot give up. We have to keep pressure on the White media until they understand that we are as concerned about our missing young women as they are about theirs.
Hi,
Family I was just thinking of this sister last evening. I have always wanted to comment on missing white woman syndrome,seems the mass media has a bad case. They have been talking non stop about the white girle from Alabama for the past 2 days.
Barbara, I think it is all of our responsibility to routinely stay on the media about covering our missing people so they can get a little help when they’re out there too.
I may start a regular ongoing campaign around this.
Yeah, it’s Natalie Holloway, the one I mentioned in the piece.
There’s new news to report in case because they’re still investigating it 2 years later; unlike with Stepha Henry, they basically stopped bothering after a couple-a-three months.