Are caucasian female kidnap victims the only ones that get national coverage?

NFS4

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Just wondering, b/c watching the news, they seem to be the only ones represented.

Just a thought...
 

b0mbrman

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I seem to recall seeing a (lighter-skinned) Hispanic woman and an Asian woman (almost certainly Filipina) all over the news sometime in the past decade...

It's much more important that you're attractive if you want national attention.
 

Red Dawn

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Intersting. I never pondered that but it does seem that all the Amber Alerts and such are for causasian girls...at least the vast majority of them.
 

illustri

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Originally posted by: b0mbrman
I seem to recall seeing a (lighter-skinned) Hispanic woman and an Asian woman (almost certainly Filipina) all over the news sometime in the past decade...

It's much more important that you're attractive if you want national attention.

yup
 

anxi80

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it does seem like they do get more media exposure...

jon-benet ramsey, elizabeth smart, danielle van dam, stephanie crowe (was big news here in sd), the girl killed a couple weeks ago by couy (sp?), and currently authorities think they recovered the body of sarah lunde.

now quick, someone name a minority female kidnap victim (w/o using search tools) from the past couple of years.

edit: the girls name was jessica lunsford and the alleged kidnapper/killer is john couey
 

Mo0o

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What about the black girl that got kidnapped but chewed through her ropes and ran home? That girl sure was a hell of a lot smarter than Elizabeth Smart
 

Schrodinger

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From what I notice it seems that most of the kidnap-rape-kill situations over the past few years have been most common with white girls.

That is not to say that minorities aren't kidnapped--just that most of those kidnappings appear to be focused on domestic issues ("baby momma drama") as opposed to some sick fvck doing it. One of the parents runs off and takes the kid with them but the child is in no real way of harm. Those sort of kidnappings are given much less priority when they know the child is with a parent.
 

anxi80

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Originally posted by: Mo0o
What about the black girl that got kidnapped but chewed through her ropes and ran home? That girl sure was a hell of a lot smarter than Elizabeth Smart
maddox covered that topic, correct? "elizabeth 'not so' smart" or something like that
 

Icepick

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There are more caucasian females in the U.S. than any other race. So of course there are going to be more rapes/kidnappings of caucasian females than any other race. Therefore, you'll hear about caucasian victims on the news much more often. It's more a matter of statistics than anything else.
 

Mo0o

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Originally posted by: anxi80
Originally posted by: Mo0o
What about the black girl that got kidnapped but chewed through her ropes and ran home? That girl sure was a hell of a lot smarter than Elizabeth Smart
maddox covered that topic, correct? "elizabeth 'not so' smart" or something like that

Yeah. I think Chapelle covered that in his standup routine as well.
 

Siddhartha

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Originally posted by: NFS4
Just wondering, b/c watching the news, they seem to be the only ones represented.

Just a thought...

The media still pretty much only reports what is important to the majority.

 

sygyzy

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Originally posted by: shilala
Ever see Chris Rock's black hostage skit?

I don't think so, and I have seen much of his work. Can you describe/explain it?
 

shilala

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Originally posted by: sygyzy
Originally posted by: shilala
Ever see Chris Rock's black hostage skit?

I don't think so, and I have seen much of his work. Can you describe/explain it?

It goes like this...
Terrorists take 20 black hostages. They call the FBI from their cellphone and say , "We have 20 black hostages on US Air 356. We would like 2 million in non-sequential unmarked bills. Hello? Hello?!? Damn, they hung up.".


 

classy

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Originally posted by: StormRider
Think of it this way. Why does the media only cover white male pedophiles?

Most pedophiles are a majority white middle aged men. And the black ones usually never get back out. But the white ones get out 2 and 3 times.
 

StormRider

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Originally posted by: classy
Originally posted by: StormRider
Think of it this way. Why does the media only cover white male pedophiles?

Most pedophiles are a majority white middle aged men.

That's what I mean. And most of these white men will probably snatch up a white girl and maybe that's why we mostly see these cases in the news.
 

NFS4

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Originally posted by: shilala
Originally posted by: sygyzy
Originally posted by: shilala
Ever see Chris Rock's black hostage skit?

I don't think so, and I have seen much of his work. Can you describe/explain it?

It goes like this...
Terrorists take 20 black hostages. They call the FBI from their cellphone and say , "We have 20 black hostages on US Air 356. We would like 2 million in non-sequential unmarked bills. Hello? Hello?!? Damn, they hung up.".

Buahahaha:laugh: