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5/3/2005

Is the issue black & white?

by @ 8:26 pm. Filed under Home

It isn’t often that I agree with anything MJS columnist Eugene Kane says, but when I read this today I knew right away that I would have to blog on it. Kane brings up something that I thought when the Jennifer Wilbanks story first broke. My first thought was, why is this national news?

JS Online: Runaway bride latest chapter of old story
When the headlines broke last week of yet another missing woman, this time a 32-year-old fianc�e in Georgia who mysteriously disappeared a few days before her lavish wedding, millions of savvy cable news viewers braced for what they knew was coming next:

The latest media soap opera featuring All Jennifer, All the Time.

Kane went on to say:

The Wilbanks story, played out over the span of several days, fit the perfect profile for what I and some friends refer to as the MWWS, or “missing white women syndrome.”

The template was already formed, from Elizabeth Smart to Chandra Levy to Laci Peterson, even our own “missing” University of Wisconsin-Madison student, Audrey Seiler, who faked her own disappearance.

In short, the national media goes totally ape-wild over a missing white woman in far greater proportion than the particular local-interest story deserves.

When I first really took notice of this was in 2002, in May of that year, a 7 year old girl, Alexis Patterson, in the central city of Milwaukee was reported missing, it was a huge story here, but it was for the most part, a local story. One month later, Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her million-dollar home and it was instantly a huge national story. (I’m shocked that Kane didn’t pick up on this connection) (See update 2 below)

Alexis Patterson got a short story on America’s Most Wanted, other than that, it stayed primarily local… While Elizabeth Smart got wall to wall coverage on CNN, MSNBC, FOX News and tons of network coverage as well as national coverage in all of the newspapers.

Why do those that decide what is big news and what is considered to be “local interest” seem to make the cute white girl the big story while the cute black girl is interesting, but not deserving of the big headlines and national coverage? To be honest, there are stories like these that go on around the country al the time, why are ANY of them made into national news, but if they are, why is it never a non-white girl plastered all over the news?

On a side note, Alexis Patterson is still missing and around Milwaukee, her name is still known and her picture is still on display in a lot of stores and car windows.
Alexis Patterson

UPDATE
I see that LaShawn Barber has asked much the same question in regards to Jennifer Wilbanks.

UPDATE 2: OMG, what a coincidence!

I had no idea, but I just heard on the news tonight that today is the 3rd anniversary of Alexis’ disappearance…I had no idea when I started this!

8 Responses to “Is the issue black & white?”

  1. Wendy Says:

    I have a feeling that the reason Alexis Patterson’s case didn’t get more attention is because the police know who did it but don’t have the evidence to prove it.

    It’s the same reason the Laurie Depies (missing white female, missing since 1992) case isn’t a big deal in Appleton/Menasha anymore: the police know who did it, they just can’t prove it. (The fact that that guy is still walking around free pisses me off).

    It seems that the Wilbanks thing is more about creating another Scott Peterson than a Laci Peterson. How many people saw the fiance and immediately thought “He did it.”?

    I’m glad the woman is okay, and I hope the fiance takes some time before he decides if he’s really going to marry this woman.

  2. Jay W. Says:

    If we’re going to open one ear to Eugene Kane’s pro-Black critique, then we should open the other ear to the pro-White critique of groups like American Renaissance (amren.com), VDare.com, Altermedia.com, and National Vanguard. They have argued for years that most crimes committed by non-Whites against Whites have been confined to local media even when the scale and nature of the crimes has been as horrific as you can immagine: interracial kidnapping, terrorization, murder, animalistic gang rape and mutilation of White women and girls, even Black-on-White dragging deaths, and that’s all aside from the daily murder and mayhem that race-based minority gangs are bringing to urban centers and increasingly to small-town America. They argue that this is a conscious effort, done so that the shrinking White majority will remain lethargic and clueless to the threats that are encroaching upon them, so that they won’t question immigration policy and won’t feel the need to pressure politicians to take domestic peace and security seriously. So that they’ll look at a city like Milwaukee and tell themselves that their quiet White neighborhoods and indeed the whole country should look like that. So that America will continue to drift toward the day when there will be no more White majority, and there will be no hope of stemming the tide of “progress”. That’s what some might say.

  3. Patrick Says:

    Humm, have we got some racial issues?

  4. Jay W. Says:

    America has got some racial issues. Would you dismiss the objections of men like Bill Cosby so easily, insinuating that he only problem that exists is in his heart? Eugene Kane makes his living writing opinion pieces that advocate for his people, and minorities in general. You have rightly pointed out racial double standards on other issues, such as the field trip that was closed to White students. Shouldn’t MJS employ at least one columnist who writes with the interests of the White community in mind?

  5. Jay W. Says:

    Here’s a concrete example of why many people are concerned, and frustrated. Yes, there are stories that are trumpeted or ignored because of race out of a fear of the kind of feelings those stories might evoke in the majority. Then public officials might have to do something for a change. As an added example, the Minutemen aren’t the ones with the problem. They’re reacting to a situation that no one else is willing to do anything about.

    Remember Brandy Duvall:
    http://www.ago.state.co.us/PRESREL/presrl2003/prsrl27.htm

    In 1997, with eight other members of the Bloods gang, Martinez kidnapped, gang-raped, sodomized, tortured, and murdered Brandy Duvall (14). The gang members took turns sexually assaulting the child.

    The viciousness of the multiple sexual assaults left Ms. Duvall bleeding from her vagina and anus. That did not deter her attackers, though, and they would climb off of her laughing, covered with her blood. They once showered her off to get her into a fit condition for additional rounds of sexual assault.

    Martinez slit Ms. Duvall’s anus open with a knife so that she could be sodomized, or possibly re-sodomized due to the swelling her various rectal injuries caused. In addition to his penis, Martinez brutally sodomized Ms. Duvall with a beer bottle and wooden broom and toilet plunger handles.

    During the course of the rapes, Martinez repeatedly kicked and beat the child, including during periods when she begged for her life. One time, Martinez kicked her football punt-style in the chest after an episode of sodomistic assault caused her to defecate uncontrollably and soil one of her rapist’s shoes.

    Martinez killed Ms. Duvall by stabbing her, choking her with his bare hands, stabbing her some more (for a total of 28 knife wounds), and then throwing her, with the help of another gang member, down a boulder-covered slope, where she bled to death in the night.

    In separate incidents, Martinez-who was a drug dealer and armed robber-shot four other people, one of whom died. Martinez bragged that he liked shooting people because he enjoyed watching his victims’ bodies twitch. Another time, Martinez beat a girlfriend unconscious in front of the girlfriend’s young child.

  6. Jay W. Says:

    Here’s a recent story you won’t learn about if you live outside of the Boston area:http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=81570

    A violent rapist who terrorized three Boston women at knifepoint for hours in 1982 - forcing two victims’ male partners to watch - is a free man after a jury ruled that he was not a “sexually dangerous person,'’ the Herald has learned.

    […]

    “This guy terrorized his victims. He was considered the worst sexual deviant in the entire Massachusetts prison system,'’ said one Department of Corrections source. “No one can believe he got out.”

    […]

    …a prison report indicates that Tate chose his victims based on race.

    “The purpose in the assaults is sexual gratification from white women and to humiliate his victim’s male companions who represented [White] authority and power,'’ the report read, according to the DOC.

  7. Patrick Says:

    Jay, take your racist hate somewhere else.

    Try Sieg Hile.com or something.

    I should have ended this crap when you tried to post that dating service for “Europeans” but sometimes it’s fun to watch someone dig them selves deeper. You seem to have assumed that my race and beliefs are the same as yours… You know what they say about someone that ASSUME’s too much.

  8. Jay W. Says:

    You declared your agreement with Eugene Kane and some of his friends that there is such a thing as “Missing White Women Syndrome” (MWWS) where the media prejudicially raises the profile of one type of story due to some sort of race-based motivation, the implication being that the life of any White woman-such as expectant-mother Laci Peterson, or, from my citation, 14-year-old Brandy Duvall-isn’t any unique loss for those who share a bond of blood with her, and furthermore anyone who does feel that way is a hateful racist in need of censure.

    You may be right, or you may be wrong about MWWS, and that’s where the need for an exchange of ideas comes in. Even though I as a married White man and father found the term “Missing White Women Syndrome” strongly objectionable, neither did I impune your character because you accepted it, nor did I resort to name-calling in communicating my point of view. I provided concrete examples of another kind of news story where I think it is clear the media LOWERED profile due to some sort of race-based motivation. Others will disagree with me, and they’re free to offer support for their positions. But there’s no reason for them to call me names or impune my character because they don’t like what I’ve said.

    Honestly, I think you run one of the best blogs on the net (your coverage of the Terri Schiavo story was second-to-none!), and I’ve appreciated your thoughtful analysis on a variety of issues. Contrary to what you felt, I made no presumptions about your racial heritage. I respect all men of good will, no matter their race. And I admire your work and your site. That’s that.

    And speaking of heritage, I did take great offense to your suggestion that I am some sort of neo-Nazi. The countrymen of my Slavic ancestors were subjugated, degraded, enslaved, and murdered by the Nazi regime, crimes that were duplicated by the Stalinist regime which additionally placed my people in a state of arrested development for half a century. I was as offended at being called a Nazi as I would have been if I had been accused of being a Leninist-Marxists. (And as for a Euro dating service, that must have been a link on one of the web news addresses I typed.)

    I have a profound love for my racial and spiritual heritage, and I only want to see that both survive into the future. And I want my extended family to be treated fairly by the media and by whatever society they may live in. What is hateful about that? And there are few places where such sentiments can be expressed. I don’t agree with all the material found at those sites I mentioned above. But right now there’s no where else to go. Milwaukee’s Black community has Eugene Kane at MJS as well as explicitly Black radio stations and newspapers. It would be nice, and fair, if there were just one journalist at MJS who wrote in a special way with White people in mind. There again, is that hateful to say?

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