MWWS- while not Earth shattering is just another irritant.

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   Credence2posted 4 years ago

   A little background: https://www.yahoo.com/gma/gabby-petito- … 34429.html
   
   
   While I grieve for the family of Ms Petito, the young women whose body was recently identified in Wyoming, I could but not help to think of all the indigenous Women of the Crow Tribe in Southeast Montana that were reported missing and not a word is to be heard anywhere near to the extent of the publicity surrounding the Petito case.
   
   I remember the Natalie Holloway, 2005 missing woman's case, we were all kept posted on progress in daily news casts almost reminding me of the Iranian hostage crisis. Before that, it was the little Ramsey girl in Boulder Colorado, victim of a heinous crime in 1996. It was in "the news" incessantly, reminding me of "who shot JR" in the old "Dallas" drama.
   
   Is this an earth shattering revelation? For most of you, probably not. It is the sort of thing I notice, while it is easy for you to ignore.
   
   It is just another piece of the jigsaw puzzle, that when combined with the other pieces will reveal a composite image that reflects America's true nature.
   
   It will just sit on the shelf next to the "Karen Phenomenon"

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      Sharlee01posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      It is very evident that our media found these missing women, and ultimate deaths not newsworthy. Just does not boost ratings as a good old riveting conspiracy. Or a very cute young white woman on the road with her boyfriend.  I am so pleased you posted this...  Really makes one sit back and think.  Where the hell are we headed as a society?

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         Credence2posted 4 years agoin reply to this

         Sharlee, Thanks for your reply and the courage to go where Lions dare not tread.
         
         When I speak of "systemic" these are the kinds of things that I refer to. You just have to go just a bit beneath the veneer to see what it is all about.
         
         Imagine, an entire telecommunications industry that seems to value to lives of the blond women missing over otherwise? These attitudes are the kinds of stuff that is behind the creation of BLM, indicative of inequity here and in many aspects of American life that whites either don't see or consciously choose to ignore.

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            Sharlee01posted 4 years agoin reply to this

            One would need to be blind if one can't admit that this form of discrimination exists. It is evident and has been for my lifetime...  I was born and raised in Dearborn Michigan, a very racist community.  As I got out into the world, I lived many years in Detroit. It became very evident to me that systemic racism was thriving.  I noted immediately that the media did not address the problems in black communities.
            
            Today, we have women go missing in Detroit frequently, and little to no media coverage on these disappearances, unless they are children. This is a fact maybe many don't want to face.
            
            If Gabby would have been black, I don't think the media would have given her more than a mention.
            
            I can certainly see that an organization like BLM is needed to keep these horrible injustices right up front and in all Americans' faces.  I don't always agree with BLM's actions, but yes there is a place for them. Hopefully, as they grow they will become better at educating the general public in a way that most can accept.

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               Credence2posted 4 years agoin reply to this

               "Hopefully, as they grow they will become better at educating the general public in a way that most can accept."
               
               For far too many, it is not a matter of education or technique. The only "acceptable way" is that the issues surrounding the purpose of BLM's very existence simply not be discussed or acknowledged. It is easier to discredit and marginalize the movement and it participants. Isn't that what most on the conservative side do?
               
               So, there is never going to be neither a palatable nor acceptable way to bring these sort of issues to the forefront.
               
               Those committed to the status quo are threatened with any prospect of change, and consequently, their comfort is of the least concern for me.

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                  Sharlee01posted 4 years agoin reply to this

                  "Hopefully, as they grow they will become better at educating the general public in a way that most can accept."
                  
                  I have a wonderful memory of one man that in a very turbulent  time in our history, where being racist was not looked at as wrong --- A man that strongly preached, and protested, he was arrested repeatedly for his views --- But he pursued and shared an ideal  -- He felt we could all benefit from a reconstruction of the entire society, a true revolution of values, one which would “look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation."  That man preached with a conviction, that made all listen. he was an educator, not one to look back.
                  
                  "It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
                  
                  Education must also train one for quick, resolute, and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
                  
                  "The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education that stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.
                  
                  The late Eugene Talmadge, in my opinion, possessed one of the better minds of Georgia, or even America. Moreover, he wore the Phi Beta Kappa key. By all measuring rods, Mr. Talmadge could think critically and intensively; yet he contends that I am an inferior being. Are those the types of men we call educated?"   Martin Luther King, Jr.

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                     Credence2posted 4 years agoin reply to this

                     Quite a profound comment, Sharlee.
                     
                     Talmadge? I read his biography and I saw nothing but an intense and loathsome racist. What makes you or anyone believe that he had this "gifted mind"? Talmadge was focused on bigotry and white supremacy and the fact that he even believed that nonwhites were inferior beings demotes him to less than a stellar intellect in my opinion.
                     
                     Without the ability to reason, there can be no moral foundations, really.
                     
                     Education is the search for the truth, as closely as it can be attained to free of the taint of bias and propaganda.
                     
                     The educated individual searches for the truth from opposing sources of information as there is no way short of being witness to events that you could know anything conclusively.
                     
                     Reading the Talmadge biography and blotting out his attitudes about race, I saw an isolationist and Nazi sympathizer and an admirer of fascist and authoritarian orthodoxy. What is so notE worthy about such a man? Of who does that remind me? Hmmm.
                     
                     Many of us by, the late 1960s, were finding Dr. King's methods as pusillanimous and ineffective, consequently seeing the need for a more radical course of action. So, I and others do not necessary see Dr. King's point of view on everything eye to eye. There can never be any praise showered upon a man like Talmadge. Even looking at him objectively, I can't see where he has merited any.
                     
                     Just another Southen Bigot, even worse than his contemporaries.
                     
                     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Talmadge

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               wildernessposted 4 years agoin reply to this

               Had Gabby been a beautiful, very photogenic, black woman with lots of interesting social media videos to reproduce and lots of internet friends, plus a highly suspect evil killer on the loose, my guess is that she would have had similar coverage.
               
               Media isn't about how much melanin is in the skin; it's about viewership and how many people can be drawn to watch the ads.

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