64,000 black women missing in US: Report

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PressTV - 64,000 black women missing in US: Report
More than 64,000 African-American women are currently missing in the United States, according to latest statistics.

Despite representing 12.85 percent of the population, black Americans accounted for nearly 226,000 — or 34 percent — of all missing persons reported in 2012, said an article by Identities Mic, citing FBI figures.

According to the National Crime Information Center, more than 270,000 minorities have been reported missing since 2010, half of them African Americans. Black women and girls comprised more than 64,000 of the missing reports.

The Black and Missing Foundation has also documented the disappearances of these women.

However, there has not been much coverage in the mainstream media about these appearances in the US. Critics say this underlines a racial divide in news coverage of such incidents.

In addition, critics charge that law enforcement authorities do not seem to put in the same effort in finding victims or perpetrators when the missing persons are black.

The families of these black girls and women often anguish over their missing loved ones for many years.

“Some people say that they are impressed with our efforts to find Phoenix," Goldia Coldon, the mother of Phoenix Coldon who went missing in December of 2011, told TheHuffington Post. “But I feel that we have not done enough ... I don't know what else to do.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/17/371658/64000-black-women-missing-in-us/

 

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[tmonster]

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[tmonster]

PressTV - 64,000 black women missing in US: Report
More than 64,000 African-American women are currently missing in the United States, according to latest statistics.

Despite representing 12.85 percent of the population, black Americans accounted for nearly 226,000 — or 34 percent — of all missing persons reported in 2012, said an article by Identities Mic, citing FBI figures.

According to the National Crime Information Center, more than 270,000 minorities have been reported missing since 2010, half of them African Americans. Black women and girls comprised more than 64,000 of the missing reports.

The Black and Missing Foundation has also documented the disappearances of these women.

However, there has not been much coverage in the mainstream media about these appearances in the US. Critics say this underlines a racial divide in news coverage of such incidents.

In addition, critics charge that law enforcement authorities do not seem to put in the same effort in finding victims or perpetrators when the missing persons are black.

The families of these black girls and women often anguish over their missing loved ones for many years.

“Some people say that they are impressed with our efforts to find Phoenix," Goldia Coldon, the mother of Phoenix Coldon who went missing in December of 2011, told TheHuffington Post. “But I feel that we have not done enough ... I don't know what else to do.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/17/371658/64000-black-women-missing-in-us/

is there a regional breakdown where the missing are more likely prevalent?

 

[superunknown23]

(White) Women We Love

By Eugene Robinson
Friday, June 10, 2005

Someday historians will look back at America in the decade bracketing the turn of the 21st century and identify the era's major themes: Religious fundamentalism. Terrorism. War in Iraq. Economic dislocation. Bioengineering. Information technology. Nuclear proliferation. Globalization. The rise of superpower China.

And, of course, Damsels in Distress.

Every few weeks, this stressed-out nation with more problems to worry about than hours in the day finds time to become obsessed with the saga -- it's always a "saga," never just a story -- of a damsel in distress. Natalee Holloway, the student who disappeared while on a class trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba, is the latest in what seems an endless series.

Holloway assumed the mantle from her predecessor, the Runaway Bride, who turned out not to have been in distress at all -- not physical distress, at least, though it's obvious that the prospect of her impending 600-guest wedding caused Jennifer Wilbanks an understandable measure of mental trauma.

Before the Runaway Bride, there were too many damsels to provide a full list, but surely you remember the damsel elite: Laci Peterson. Elizabeth Smart. Lori Hacking. Chandra Levy. JonBenet Ramsey. We even found, or created, a damsel amid the chaos of war in Iraq: Jessica Lynch.

The specifics of the story line vary from damsel to damsel. In some cases, the saga begins with the discovery of a corpse. In other cases, the damsel simply vanishes into thin air. Often, there is a suspect from the beginning -- an intruder, a husband, a father, a congressman, a stranger glimpsed lurking nearby.

Sometimes the tale ends well, or well enough, as in the cases of Smart and Lynch. Let's hope it ends well for Holloway. But more often, it ends badly. Once in a great while, a case like Runaway Bride comes along to provide comic relief.

But of course the damsels have much in common besides being female. You probably have some idea of where I'm headed here.

A damsel must be white. This requirement is nonnegotiable. It helps if her frame is of dimensions that breathless cable television reporters can credibly describe as "petite," and it also helps if she's the kind of woman who wouldn't really mind being called "petite," a woman with a good deal of princess in her personality. She must be attractive -- also nonnegotiable. Her economic status should be middle class or higher, but an exception can be made in the case of wartime (see: Lynch).

Put all this together, and you get 24-7 coverage. The disappearance of a man, or of a woman of color, can generate a brief flurry, but never the full damsel treatment. Since the Holloway story broke we've had more news reports from Aruba this past week, I'd wager, than in the preceding 10 years.

I have no idea whether the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida hung on every twist and turn of the Chandra Levy case; somehow, I doubt he did. But I suspect the apostle of "deconstructionism" would have analyzed the damsel-in-distress phenomenon by explaining that our society is imposing its own subconsciously chosen narrative on all these cases.

It's the meta-narrative of something seen as precious and delicate being snatched away, defiled, destroyed by evil forces that lurk in the shadows, just outside the bedroom window. It's whiteness under siege. It's innocence and optimism crushed by cruel reality. It's a flower smashed by a rock.

Or maybe (since Derrida believed in multiple readings of a single text) the damsel thing is just a guaranteed cure for a slow news day. The cable news channels, after all, have lots of airtime to fill.

This is not to mock any one of these cases (except Runaway Bride) or to diminish the genuine tragedy experienced by family and friends. I can imagine the helplessness I'd feel if a child of mine disappeared from a remote beach in the Caribbean. But I can also be fairly confident that neither of my sons would provoke so many headlines.

Whatever our ultimate reason for singling out these few unfortunate victims, among the thousands of Americans who are murdered or who vanish each year, the pattern of choosing only young, white, middle-class women for the full damsel treatment says a lot about a nation that likes to believe it has consigned race and class to irrelevance.

What it says is that we haven't. What it says is that those stubborn issues are still very much alive and that they remain at the heart of the nation's deepest fears.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060901729.html

It's an old phenomenon.
I'm sure there's been a lot more of them since this article was written.

 

[unit321]

Kidnapped into the sex trade.
Pimps move them to another city and/or state.

 

[Kritic]

PressTV - 64,000 black women missing in US: Report
More than 64,000 African-American women are currently missing in the United States, according to latest statistics.

Despite representing 12.85 percent of the population, black Americans accounted for nearly 226,000 — or 34 percent — of all missing persons reported in 2012, said an article by Identities Mic, citing FBI figures.

According to the National Crime Information Center, more than 270,000 minorities have been reported missing since 2010, half of them African Americans. Black women and girls comprised more than 64,000 of the missing reports.

The Black and Missing Foundation has also documented the disappearances of these women.

However, there has not been much coverage in the mainstream media about these appearances in the US. Critics say this underlines a racial divide in news coverage of such incidents.

In addition, critics charge that law enforcement authorities do not seem to put in the same effort in finding victims or perpetrators when the missing persons are black.

The families of these black girls and women often anguish over their missing loved ones for many years.

“Some people say that they are impressed with our efforts to find Phoenix," Goldia Coldon, the mother of Phoenix Coldon who went missing in December of 2011, told TheHuffington Post. “But I feel that we have not done enough ... I don't know what else to do.”
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/17/371658/64000-black-women-missing-in-us/

the current culture does not respect black life. there's always something more important to cover than the loss of a black life.
mainstream media will not do good numbers reporting on black ppl. and the black media broadcasts filth 24-7 to the black masses not helping the situation.