tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post8185166827645339284..comments2024-01-17T15:05:50.120-06:00Comments on AngryBlackBitch: Untitled…Shark-Fuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-48467780069757810362008-07-09T02:42:00.000-05:002008-07-09T02:42:00.000-05:00Leaving Atlanta, by Tayari Jones, is about the Atl...Leaving Atlanta, by Tayari Jones, is about the Atlanta child murders and it's GREAT. I highly recommend it!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for this post, too. It makes me furious and incredibly sad, the disparity between coverage of white murder victims and victims of color.seitzkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16383559351073204534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-6554425173884983472008-07-04T15:59:00.000-05:002008-07-04T15:59:00.000-05:00What an excellent post. And, I love your mother!M...What an excellent post. And, I love your mother!<BR/><BR/>MixterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-10977784708304942732008-07-03T07:55:00.000-05:002008-07-03T07:55:00.000-05:00A while back in Huntsville AL, there was an Amber ...A while back in Huntsville AL, there was an Amber Alert for a 6yo black boy. Interestingly enough, there was intensive media coverage and they even kept his picture up on the tv screen throughout the whole broadcast day. They did a huge search with helicopters, the whole nine. I was pleasantly surprised, of course. <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately it turned out to be a fraud. The boy had been murdered by mom's boyfriend and they came up with an elaborate car-jacking scheme. Obviously, I was heart-broken over the death of the child, but I was additionally pissed that media attention had been wasted in this manner. <BR/><BR/>Knowing how black people are always seen as a collective, I wonder how many little missing black boys will be ignored because a reporter has this story in the back of their minds? No, it's not right, but it is reality.roslynholcombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03423350501595717113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-91076173310535098522008-07-02T18:13:00.000-05:002008-07-02T18:13:00.000-05:00To Shark Fu. My apologies for my bumbling respons...To Shark Fu. My apologies for my bumbling response to your views. I absolutely agree with you and was making an attempt to do so.<BR/><BR/>Over the years it's become obvious that a persons race plays a major role in the press coverage of that individuals murder or disappearance. All to often, if anything it's a small blip in the media. I've often wondered if media coverage was a projection of the institutional racism in this country and an attempt to portray people of color as uncaring to what happens to their children....or less caring than white families. <BR/><BR/>Our media and police departments often play into that stereotype as you know. <BR/><BR/>Again, my apologies.woodsbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14839919292310418555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-9877047330321971842008-07-02T16:45:00.000-05:002008-07-02T16:45:00.000-05:00Reminds me of the 7-year-old South Philly black gi...Reminds me of the 7-year-old South Philly black girl named Erica Pratt who chewed through the duct tape and escaped from the basement prison her kidnappers kept her in.<BR/><BR/>Unlike Elizabeth Smart (whose photo being plastered all over America ultimately led to her being returned to her family), Erika's brave escape put her in in the headlines. <BR/><BR/>Her disappearance never would have.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-49441105054109860392008-07-02T13:23:00.000-05:002008-07-02T13:23:00.000-05:00This reminds me of the JonBenet Ramsey case. On t...This reminds me of the JonBenet Ramsey case. On the same night (Christmas Eve, 1996) a young black girl was raped and left for dead in the stairwell of her apartment building. No national news, no national search for a killer, no pictures of an innocent young (black) girl in the days and weeks before her horrific murder.<BR/><BR/>And the saddest part- The details remain a mystery to me. I heard the story on NPR a few weeks after the murders, and it has stuck with me nearly 12 years later. Yet, I can't remember the city, and the name of the child was never mentioned.Sarah Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11003673076911927090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-69511088591912581652008-07-02T08:38:00.000-05:002008-07-02T08:38:00.000-05:00Yes, something was just never quite right about th...Yes, something was just never quite right about the Atlanta outcome.<BR/><BR/>"It’s our tradition of passing laws to incarcerate criminals coupled with our reluctance to examine the society from which they emerge."<BR/><BR/>That's where you nailed it. . . as you so often do so well.<BR/><BR/>It's such a nice day outside today. Hope you enjoy it!SagaciousHillbillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09511441325695460501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-37252956059635373462008-07-02T08:04:00.000-05:002008-07-02T08:04:00.000-05:00"Does it matter?Yes.The question is whether it sho..."Does it matter?<BR/><BR/>Yes.<BR/><BR/>The question is whether it should matter and what we can do to change that shit."<BR/><BR/>It shouldn't matter, but I agree that it does and something needs to be done. Watching the news you would think that middle class blonde children and women are the only ones who ever go missing. The poor and the brown do not get potentially life saving coverage. As for what we can do about it? Beyond linking to and actively supporting sites like Black and Missing and doing what your mom did - looking out for our kids, I'm not sure. But if you think of anything please share because I'm ready to help.Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00900726730265994177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-23946311715209799232008-07-01T21:33:00.000-05:002008-07-01T21:33:00.000-05:00"...warned us that, should we be foolish enough to..."...warned us that, should we be foolish enough to get snatched and murdered, she’d find us and kill us again."<BR/><BR/>We had the same mother. <BR/><BR/>Did you ever see this movie?<BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_Atlanta's_Children%3FCarpe Diemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14987003545918286214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-5871160213504324182008-07-01T19:04:00.000-05:002008-07-01T19:04:00.000-05:00I agree it is a common occurrence in KC...any blac...I agree it is a common occurrence in KC...any black child gets maybe 2 days,except for Precious Doe who stayed in the news thanks to the black community leaders...while others come/go. While the lighter kids are constantly in the news for follow-up. Yet another painful reminder of the double standards! This is so sad and until the world see all children as important it will remain the same!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-45698697905378597912008-07-01T19:03:00.000-05:002008-07-01T19:03:00.000-05:00This post touch a raw nerve for me as a mother. I ...This post touch a raw nerve for me as a mother. I have two young boys and I fear in my heart that if the worst ever happened to them the police would not do their best to find them. We are not rich and we are not white and that would work against them even though they are so precious to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-2018446983677542162008-07-01T17:55:00.000-05:002008-07-01T17:55:00.000-05:00Hey there Shark-Fu! {waves}This is not my first vi...Hey there Shark-Fu! {waves}<BR/><BR/>This is not my first visit at your blog but I haven't dropped by in a while and I saw that you received an award from Hagar's Daughters Blogspot so I wanted to drop in and congratulate you!!<BR/><BR/>I also wanted to catch up with all that you have been writing and to of COURSE extend a hearty and warm welcome to you to visit my house (blog) whenever you'd like to!!<BR/><BR/>This post was very, very deep....I remember all of the theories about the Atlanta child murders that were swirling...<BR/><BR/>To think that someone's child would be missing and that NO ONE would claim the child is just horrific...but there are many black children who are abandoned by drug-addicted parents and no one ever calls the authorities for them... children just living in squalor down the street and no one ever notices that they haven't seen the parents in a week...or a MONTH!<BR/><BR/>It happens more often than the media reports on...because black children are not important to the white media...I remember when a missing white girl on the cover of People magazine!! This never ever happens when a black child is missing...<BR/><BR/>My heart grieves for all of our missing children...but you have also brought forth the issue that we just do not want to protest loudly about...<BR/><BR/>Thanks for blowing your trumpet!<BR/><BR/>Peace, blessings and DUNAMIS!<BR/>LisaLISA VAZQUEZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13583559303233985031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-69414451676661584742008-07-01T16:51:00.000-05:002008-07-01T16:51:00.000-05:00Ah, yes. I recall Atlanta very well, because ever...Ah, yes. I recall Atlanta very well, because everyone in Detroit thought the animal who killed those children had practiced up here before he (and there is no doubt it was a "he") headed South. Remember, Atlanta and Detroit were sister cities in the 1970s, with strong bonds... and what became shared grief. <BR/><BR/>1977/78 was a hell of a winter to be a kid in Detroit. He was dubbed "The Oakland County Child Killer" which wasn't particularly catchy, but flash wasn't required. I'd have to look up how many children were found dead (8, I think) - all white, all just south of teenagers, killed with a fascinating array of methods. Jill Robinson was found in a ditch with her head blown off by a shotgun. Dental records were sketchy thanks to the trauma, so they used xrays to compare an old fracture in one of her arms. She was 12. She was my friend. She rode out on her bike three days before Christmas and never rode home. I don't know if the candy-cane lip gloss she wanted so badly waited under the Christmas Tree until her parents - What do you do with gifts for a child who will never come home? I know her death haunted me, haunted all of us. We obsessed over details of the case - the blue AMC gremlin spotted nearby, whether she was alive or already dead when the shotgun was used, what we would do in her place. Would we fight? Would we scream? Would it hurt? How much? <BR/><BR/>No suspects were ever arrested. And then as Atlanta started, after Detroit stopped. Black kids this time, about the same age, also killed without pattern. Also never solved to anyone's satisfaction. <BR/><BR/>My own opinion? I truly don't know. Within the next few years will we have a deathbed confession from some unprepossessing man who turns out to be the monster? Did someone kill him, before he could finish blazing his path of destruction? I don't think he would have stopped on his own. <BR/><BR/>But of course, it hasn't stopped. 30 years gone, with children still dying. There is not a place in Hell hot enough, cold enough, deep enough, or painful enough for whomever did this. I am usually all for forgiveness, but my own personal Godhood has a nice big load of wrath to unleash for this.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, Little Sister - you touched a bit of a nerve....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-82940134268689604672008-07-01T15:55:00.000-05:002008-07-01T15:55:00.000-05:00Its a shame because those murders showed the value...Its a shame because those murders showed the value black hold (and still hold) in America. <BR/><BR/>Dare I say....had the race of those children been different, would the outcome have been as well?Mohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10302233036493770234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-57265255066566755662008-07-01T15:06:00.000-05:002008-07-01T15:06:00.000-05:00woodsba...Oh I understand unsolved and unresolved ...woodsba...<BR/>Oh I understand unsolved and unresolved violence all too well. <BR/><BR/>But my exploration was of how all too often race, class and location make the difference between life and death...responses & changes or shrugs followed by historical references and statistical measurements.<BR/><BR/>For many missing children, race means the difference between extensive<BR/>media coverage that could save a life or limited coverage because of assumed behavior. <BR/><BR/>Does it matter?<BR/><BR/>Yes.<BR/><BR/>The question is whether it should matter and what we can do to change that shit.Shark-Fuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-89117827440596436712008-07-01T12:46:00.000-05:002008-07-01T12:46:00.000-05:00I never felt comfortable with that single arrest f...I never felt comfortable with that single arrest for the Atlanta child murders..<BR/><BR/>This is a gut-wrenching post Shark Fu.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-71554386158214237802008-07-01T12:07:00.000-05:002008-07-01T12:07:00.000-05:00Sadly unsolved murders have occured over the years...Sadly unsolved murders have occured over the years in this country and many of them against children. I'm 59 years old and very well remember a young girl about my age (8) being murdered in an alley not 5 blocks away from my house in south St. Louis. You have to remember or for you youngsters, understand that murder was not a daily news item in 'the day' and particularly against children. It has never been solved but brought our neighborhood to a sobering truth...gone were the days of unlocked doors,windows and allowing children to ride bikes anywhere in the city. An older friend from HS was murdered along with her cousin in St. Charles while her husband was in Vietnam. Again, unsolved.<BR/><BR/>While these individuals were white, does it really matter? The fact that a human being was brutally murdered by another is all that should matter.<BR/><BR/>I don't know what the answer is, but crime is a major issue which no one seems to be able to remedy and sadly, so many accept as part of 'modern' living.woodsbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14839919292310418555noreply@blogger.com