Why are we so fascinated with the lives of rich, white people? Fox News latches on quickly to every white woman or child who is missing. If a pregnant white lady or young white child is missing, you know that Greta Van Sustern and Geraldo Rivera are all over it like mold on bread. Their pictures are plaster on every Fox News program, from Papa Bear Bill O'Reilly to Hannity and Colmes. Currently, Casey Anthony, the mother of the missing 2-year-old, Caylee, is the subject of everyone's fancy. Why--she is some young, supposedly attractive white chick with circulating photos of her "bumping and grinding" with some stripper-chick at a club after her daughter was missing. Of course, we can't forget Lacey Peterson, Natalie Holloway, and that crazy Runaway Bride chick, with the psychotically exopthalmic gaze. What Fox News fails to mention is the large number of missing children/women of other ethnic backgrounds, such as black or Hispanic. Obviously, in the media's constant race to attract the Borderline to Mildly impaired moral majority, the big stories are always the attractive white people who are missing. Not that it is not important to be aware of innocent people who are missing--I empathize tremendously with their loved ones. However, I would love to see the same importance given to the rest of us pigmented folk when we have been kidnapped or runaway.
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