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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

MWW or the Gretta Van Sustern Syndrome.

Many of you may of heard the expression, “Driving while black”, it has not been unheard of for black drivers to be pulled over for simply driving in the wrong neighborhood.

Well we have a new syndrome out there called, “Missing While White”.It goes on and on, Natalee Holloway, Jon Benet Ramsey, Jennifer Willbanks, Audrey Seiler (remember her from UW Madison?), and now we have a missing model from Columbus, Julie Popovich.What do all of these missing women have in common? Pretty. Young. White. Tons of publicity.

Every time I see these stories my heart reaches out to the families. I see the media harp on the story night after night after night and I get mad. Why? It makes me thing of kids like Alexis Patterson, do you remember Alexis Patterson? She vanished en route to her school on 5-3-2002. Why has Alexis not gotten the same publicity of these other women? She’s innocent, cute and black.

Apparently the media only goes into full blown frenzy over missing white girls, it is disgusting. Do not kids like Alexis deserve just the same amount of attention?

Of course they do. But I guess missing girls like Alexis Patterson do little for Gretta's ratings so they get no coverage. Watch this Julie Popovich thing folks, she will be the next Natalee.