Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Taylor Behl...That's just wrong

Now I'm not talking about the part that she went missing and was found dead (even though it is). I'm talking about the media coverage it received. How many times do I have to watch America go crazy over a missing white girl when Black, Hispanic, and Asian girls go missing all the time.

So do the lives of young minority women not mean as much as the lives of young white women. That's basically what you're telling us. I'm here to say that that assumption is some bullshit. When I see Taylor Behl, the girl who went missing in the Caribbean and the girl who's body was found in Rock Creek Park after dating the Senator from California, I just have to say this is some racist crap right here.

My best friends cousin went missing in 2000 and is still missing. I haven't seen one Amber Alert, "Have You Seen Me" cards, or news report about her. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Smart went missing, was found and they managed to make a movie about it. Sadly to say America probably killed that girl or owes her family an apology because they failed to give her life the proper respect that they show for these white girls.

Now, I really feel badly for the Behl family, I really do. However, at least I know to feel badly for her family. It's plenty of missing girls (and boys for that matter) that I know nothing about and that's wrong.

You can put up so fake as be on alert for suspicious activity and change the terror alert, but you can't flash the faces of missing children in the state on the news.

That's horrible. That's America.