Missing Pregnant Woman - I wonder why no one is obsessing about this?

[Taverner]

Could it be that she's not a pretty white girl? Hmmmmm...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The Philadelphia Citizens Crime Commission, with the help of a Philadelphia blogger, have launched a reward fund for information leading to Latoyia Figueroa, a 24-year-old pregnant mother of one who has been missing since July 18.

Figueroa went to a doctor's appointment with a male friend on that afternoon, police said, but did not show up to retrieve her 7-year-old daughter from day care later that day.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/27/Philadelphia.missing/index.html

[deadparrot]

1. Yes. I wonder why. nt

[Beaverhausen]

2. some of us were yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4198758

[Taverner]

11. I wasn't on yesterday

And yes this is totally a double standard

[Beaverhausen]

13. I agree

This missing woman has a child waiting at home for her, let alone the one still growing inside of her. But because she's not white...

[MercutioATC]

3. "Latoyia Figueroa"??? Not "white" enough for MSM coverage.

[redqueen]

4. *sigh*

Why indeed...

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. This does not sound good :^(

[SoCalDem]

6. possible reasons

"there are plenty more where she came from"
"her fetus is not likely to be blond & blue-eyed"
"she probably 'brought it on herself'"
or "maybe she just 'ran away'.."

[Kerrytravelers]

7. Wonder how rich her family is?

[Coexist]

8. Oh no -

I hope it's not one of those sick baby-stealers.

[Thtwudbeme]

9. How sad; she is beautiful

and has a nice smile; kind of the type of picture that makes you think she would be nice too.

Stephanie

This should be all over fucking CNN and FAUX....shows what a nasty racist country we are--more ancetdotal evidence.

[tamtam]

10. She is beautiful

This is very sad. Her family and her daughter must be worried to death by now.

The MSM makes me sick this is the first I heard about this woman. I guess she was not the right candidate to be blasted all over the news. This is disgusting, it just goes to show how the media plays it's cards.

[bluedonkey]

12. CNN

has her story here:http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/07/27/Philadelphia.missing/index.html
And allspinzone.com has a fund raiser in her name.

[journalist3072]

14. The media doesn't give a flying flig...

About a missing African-American. That is very telling.

As an African-American woman myself, I better hope I never go missing!

I was reading an article today, that said the only reason this story is getting some type of attention, is because a local Philadelphia online blogger has been tracking this story on his blog. He was so upset that it wasn't getting attention, so he's blogging about it. Props to him!

[Booster]

15. Our media should really be ashamed of themselves. Just being

so blatant about not reporting if it's not a white pretty girl is just appalling. I'm ashamed of them.