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Police Chief Missing Student Ignored - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 23rd Nov, 2007 - 3:23pm
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Due to her race
Police Chief Says Missing Student Ignored
I think he is absolutely right. Now before you jump on me, let me tell you I am not the kind of person to play the "race" card easily (as many do) but I DO see that those missing cases of white folks, blond with blue eyes kids, educated people (such as the Mc Canns case) receive 100% MORE media attention if the kid missing is Black or any other minority, poor and coming from a low-income household. I think is truly sad and pathetic. What is your opinion?
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| JACKSON, Miss. - The newly named chief of Mississippi's largest police force says race is among the reasons the case of a missing Jackson State University student hasn't received national media attention. Latasha Norman, who is black, was last seen Nov. 13 in one of her classes. Her car was left on the campus, but she never returned to her dormitory room when the afternoon class ended. "As far as the interest by the national media in the story, I think race probably had an impact," said Jackson Police Chief Malcolm McMillin, who is white. "It's a small college in the South. It's the daughter of simple people who maybe are not important outside of their circle, and maybe we don't attach the same importance to them that we do for other people." McMillin said the nation's eyes have been on a Chicago case in which a former police officer, Drew Peterson, is suspected in the disappearance more than three weeks ago of his wife, Stacy. The couple is white. Since Stacy Peterson disappeared, authorities have said they believe the death of the former officer's third wife three years ago was a homicide staged as a drowning accident. "We need to show the same kind of concern for this," McMillin said of Norman's disappearance, adding that heightened exposure could help develop leads in the case... |
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Of course, if you are white and good looking then you are more likely to get exposure. Remember with the Peterson case the woman isn't ugly, neither with the McCanns. I think to be sure we would need to see what would be the media interest in a good looking black or Hispanic woman that went missing.
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