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3 Cheers for a little girl with lots of moxie. | by slacktime | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
| Way to go, Erica! [plus, a minor rant] |
by mortaine |
2002-07-24 11:14:24 |
Ok, first of all, here's a GREAT example of a kid with a head on her shoulders-- she had the presence of mind to DO SOMETHING and not sit and wait for 2 hours before trying to get help. I really hope that this kid gets a full college scholarship or some sort of guarantee to a future, because she's the kind of person I want to see making a difference in the world.
Second, why didn't we hear about her disappearance before she was found? Hmmm. . . . perhaps because of her skin color? 2,000 kids go missing EVERY DAY, and yet why is it that the news only seems to report the ones who are blonde, white, and female? A little black girl goes missing, but in order to make the front page news, she has to chew through her bonds and rescue herself!
I'm feeling pretty jaded right now, because I feel that Erica's case did not get the attention similar cases got JUST A WEEK EARLIER until something really surprising happened in the case. If it were just an isolated instance, I'd feel differently, but do you all remember the septuplets a few years back? That same year, a black family also had septuplets, but they were not the miraculous recipients of thousands of dollars in donated products and home furnishings, nor did they get on the cover of Time and every other magazine, show up on morning shows. At their request, they did eventually receive a year's worth of diapers from Huggies, but there was virtually no news coverage and no outpouring of support and aid.
Also, did anyone hear about the 16 yr. old who faked her own abduction last night? Yep. Wanted to sneak out to a party with her friends. Cases like that are going to be the death of child-recovery systems like the Amber Alert system. |
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