Sunday, October 26, 2008

A question

Do you think that the media or the general public would care about the deaths of a black man and a black woman and the abduction of a black child if they weren't related to a celebrity? Unfortunately, I'm not so sure...

1 comment:

M said...

I, unfortunately, think you're right. This was featured on the MW City station that we get in CU Land--the one we watch to stay up to date on U.S. news along with the web. One person from the Hudsons' neighborhood was interviewed, and he was asked why no one called the police as soon as the gunshots were heard. He said that no one thought anything of it; they are so accustomed to hearing gunshots in that neighborhood that it didn't occur to anyone to call the police. Why isn't the amount of violence in this impoverished area of Chicago on the national news every day? Because the area is predominately black--a ghetto that was created during the Great Migration, when African Americans traveled north by the thousands in the early-twentieth century to escape the racist South and find work. Ironically, the "liberal" North created communities (a.k.a. ghettos) that kept African Americans impoverished and separated from the larger white community of Chicago.

I'm truly sorry for Jennifer Hudson and her family, and I hope she makes this connection on her own. And that she speaks out against it. Every child who goes missing deserves national attention--not just the pretty white girls who the media prefers to focus on.