Black children are less important than white children (Iraq, interview, soldiers)
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Black kids in the US don't matter as much to the general public as white kids. It's an unacceptable fact I keep getting proven to me over and over again.
Just a couple of weeks ago a beautiful 1-year old little boy named Bryeon disappeared, supposedly abducted, in Chicago. The story was mentioned on the news that night, about fifteen minutes into the broadcast after stories of flight cancellations and returning soldiers. The story was given about a minute. The same amount of time and priority was given to the story the next day when it was reported that the abduction didn't happen and they were now looking for little Bryeon's body. The mother and her boyfriend later admitted to beating the baby and leaving him on the floor to die whereby they dumped his body in the Des Plaines river.
This is a horrific, unspeakable crime done to a tiny baby. One would think it would be front page news, but it isn't. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to this baby murder in the local media and even less in the national media. The same was true last summer when 7-year old Heaven was shot and killed while standing near her home selling candy. Heaven's murder was reported the day it happened and that was about it.
It's a very different story when something happens to a white child, locally or elsewhere. A couple of years ago a white student of the fancy New Trier High School was hit by a car driven by another student and severely hurt. It was the top story in Chicago for days. Friends and family of both victim and driver was interviewed and the condition of the girl updated frequently. Even non-local stories of murdered or missing white children get a lot of coverage on our local news yet I can't think of a single time I've heard of a non-local black child who's missing or killed. Do black children not go missing? Every so often our national media gets swept up in constant coverage of the murder or disappearance of a child somewhere in the country - Elisabeth Smart, Natalie Holloway, Haleigh Cummings, Polly Klaas, etc. When was the last time national media were camping out in front of the home of a black family with a missing child and reported on it like they did with Natalie Holloway or Elisabeth Smart? Has it ever happened?
I have to conclude that black children aren't worth as much as white kids to the general public. Why is this?
Here is an article from The Sacramento Bee from 2011 that was on the cover 5 diff times, about a black foster child that experienced immense suffering growing up. The story was a 5 part feature running in the sunday paper 5 weeks in a row. U must realize that black children being murdered has become an epidemic in Chicago, especially since stricter gun laws have taken affect...
Black children who go missing get zero media coverage because they are not being kidnapped by dirty evil White men. Black kids are overwhelming kidnapped by Black men, so the media is not interested in covering it. Blacks doing bad things to other Blacks is not really interesting piece of news for people who run the media.
NOBODY would have ever heard of Trayvon Martin if George Zimmerman looked like Wesley Snipes.
Here is an article from The Sacramento Bee from 2011 that was on the cover 5 diff times, about a black foster child that experienced immense suffering growing up. The story was a 5 part feature running in the sunday paper 5 weeks in a row. U must realize that black children being murdered has become an epidemic in Chicago, especially since stricter gun laws have taken affect...
Black children who go missing get zero media coverage because they are not being kidnapped by dirty evil White men. Black kids are overwhelming kidnapped by Black men, so the media is not interested in covering it. Blacks doing bad things to other Blacks is not really interesting piece of news for people who run the media.
NOBODY would have ever heard of Trayvon Martin if George Zimmerman looked like Wesley Snipes.
I can't tell you how many times I've heard of Natalie Holloway and the case in Florida,Casey Anthony.
The Natalie case really irked me though. She wasn't a child.
Hispanic children don't get much media coverage either.
I think it has more to do with appearance and class rather than race.
Any child that isn't perceived as beautiful,white,female, and upper class isn't covered.
Boys almost never ever get coverage. Can't remember the last time I've seen a boy of any RACE get media coverage.
I've also never ever saw a disabled child that was murdered get coverage.
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Yep, even when it comes to children if they're pretty with an angelic face, the media think it's easier to get sympathy. It really does seem it's unequal. I don't buy that it's because it's mostly black people who kidnap black kids, what about all those missing black kids where the case is unsolved? I don't know why it's girls more than boys though, although I have seen a few reports of missing boys. In Australia one of the most famous missing persons case was that of 3 children who disappeared in the 60s, it was intriguing yet I wonder why it got so much media attention. The case remains unsolved to this day.
Yep, even when it comes to children if they're pretty with an angelic face, the media think it's easier to get sympathy. It really does seem it's unequal. I don't buy that it's because it's mostly black people who kidnap black kids, what about all those missing black kids where the case is unsolved? I don't know why it's girls more than boys though, although I have seen a few reports of missing boys. In Australia one of the most famous missing persons case was that of 3 children who disappeared in the 60s, it was intriguing yet I wonder why it got so much media attention. The case remains unsolved to this day.
You know NOTHING about how the American media is run. Black people doing physical harm to other Black people is simply not considered a juicy story worthy of being covered by the people who run the American mainstream media.
Violence against Black people is only interesting to the media overlords if the perpetrator committing the crime is White or some other type of Nonblack. 93 percent of Black homicide victims in the U.S are murdered by a Black perpetrator, yet the late Trayvon Martin got more media coverage than all of those 93 percent dead Black homicide victims combined.
Black kids in the US don't matter as much to the general public as white kids. It's an unacceptable fact I keep getting proven to me over and over again.
Just a couple of weeks ago a beautiful 1-year old little boy named Bryeon disappeared, supposedly abducted, in Chicago. The story was mentioned on the news that night, about fifteen minutes into the broadcast after stories of flight cancellations and returning soldiers. The story was given about a minute. The same amount of time and priority was given to the story the next day when it was reported that the abduction didn't happen and they were now looking for little Bryeon's body. The mother and her boyfriend later admitted to beating the baby and leaving him on the floor to die whereby they dumped his body in the Des Plaines river.
This is a horrific, unspeakable crime done to a tiny baby. One would think it would be front page news, but it isn't. Surprisingly little attention has been paid to this baby murder in the local media and even less in the national media. The same was true last summer when 7-year old Heaven was shot and killed while standing near her home selling candy. Heaven's murder was reported the day it happened and that was about it.
It's a very different story when something happens to a white child, locally or elsewhere. A couple of years ago a white student of the fancy New Trier High School was hit by a car driven by another student and severely hurt. It was the top story in Chicago for days. Friends and family of both victim and driver was interviewed and the condition of the girl updated frequently. Even non-local stories of murdered or missing white children get a lot of coverage on our local news yet I can't think of a single time I've heard of a non-local black child who's missing or killed. Do black children not go missing? Every so often our national media gets swept up in constant coverage of the murder or disappearance of a child somewhere in the country - Elisabeth Smart, Natalie Holloway, Haleigh Cummings, Polly Klaas, etc. When was the last time national media were camping out in front of the home of a black family with a missing child and reported on it like they did with Natalie Holloway or Elisabeth Smart? Has it ever happened?
I have to conclude that black children aren't worth as much as white kids to the general public. Why is this?
Except we do know that murdered black children can and do get national and even sometimes world wide media coverage. Let's take one for example... Derrion Albert
I'm not sure that I agree of black vs white getting less coverage. IMO the white, pretty, cheerleading, blonde, anglo-saxon gets more coverage than a white, chubby, glasses wearing little girl. Same as popularity in school. Plus the squeaky wheel gets the grease, i.e. contacting the media. Just my opinion.
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