The Price of Black Lives

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Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

"In June 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was found nine months later — during which her story received enormous national coverage. According to Washington Post staff writer Howard Kurtz, "such factors as the missing children's race and social status matter."


"Alexis Patterson, a seven-year-old, African-American girl from a poor part of Milwaukee, also disappeared in 2002, after being walked to school"



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Don't get me started on the Alexis Patterson thing! I still vividly remember the day she disappeared. I pray they reopen the cold case and find out what truly happened to her. Seven year olds should be safe to go to school, no matter their race/ethnicity…