Lack Of Press Coverage For Black Women

Ok I hate to do this but I must. I was just checking out the condolence videos on youtube for Latasha Norman the young college student that was found murdered by her boyfriend.
If and when you have the chance check out my girl jiatv and her post on it. There are others as well but this one I like because she doesn't bite her toungue on what she has to say.
GO JIA!

Then I got some more disturbing news that a young lady in Augusta, GA took her small babies into a bathroom and stabbed them both to death because she said that she and her boyfriend had gotten into a fight.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14734225/detail.html

I just got an email from a friend of mine about a young lady that has been missing here in Arkansas since November 11th and they just found her body under her house. Her boyfriend killed her.

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/1107/476867.html

My own mother in Milwaukee, Wisconsin burned alive by her boyfriend Tommy Wells two years ago. Helen Clark Finch was her name and the press was more interested in the life that she led and how many children that she bore than they were in catching her killer who had fled the state and was found in Arizona!

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=383485&format=print

http://www.wisn.com/news/4648069/detail.html

I need to pause for a moment ya'll ......................

But I need to tell her story and others because someone needs to since the press seems to have forgotten that African American woman are being attacked, killed, and tortured in their own homes and by people that we love and we can't seem to get anyone to talk about it. Not only that we are attacking and killing as well our babies in fits of rage that can be addressed.

I can remember when my mother's assailant was on the run and I rushed home to be near her, I heard radio disc jockeys making fun of her and the amount of children that she had and that she was a welfare mother. But she was my momma ok?
I never heard about it on FOX, I never heard about it on CNN, NBC nowhere then it totally fizzed away it was like she was not important and to America she wasn't. Tommy Wells got thirty years for setting my mother on fire with lighter fluid while she was asleep because he believed according to reports that she was seeing someone else!

My mother would have been 53 this year. And Daniyah would have celebrated another birthday and Latasha Norman should have been preparing for christmas break and finals, Marquita Smith should have been doing the same here at UALR, and what about the mother and son and Dunbar Village? And what about the mother in Augusta? What caused her to go over the edge like that?

You know I'm not even sure what to say to this because where are the answers? How do we get the media coverage that we need to get help to our women and children faster like the paparazzi like coverage they are giving The Holloway Case or the new Peterson Case?

Could it possibly be that we are not in your face about it with them? Offering up a press crew to deal directly with the press in terms of airing it constantly and daily and hourly? Me thinks I may have something there.

I will be honest with you.. the only way that we got any coverage was when my sisters and I called the press conference and did a press release to ask for help in tracking down Tommy Wells. Otherwise we would have not had that coverage.

I am not saying that they need not be worried about us and have Geraldo Rivera on front lawns of crime scenes and other press but we need to be in their face about it too.

In terms of what we need to do as a people across the board? This is getting out of hand and seems to be coming to the forefront more and more but how do we get to the root and pull it out? Do we stop taking chances in life and love? Do we take finger prints and blood samples at the first encounter with someone and before we decide to let someone go through with a pregnancy that will lead to her killing her children? ( I dont even want to think about the sentence she is going to get as opposed to a white woman)

I wish I had an answer. I don't profess to have the answer at all but I do know this lets keep the grass roots thing going lets keep pushing for our city leaders and others in the community to stand up and get with us about solutions.
Ultimately here is the thing......we nee to teach our chidren and ourselves what the warning signs are and how to get out and how to get help when the pressure is to great.

Is that part of the curriculum in schools now? Or are non profit org spreading the message? If it is school a sista and lets help them help our people if its not lets do what we can and help out be the press and the educators..........mmm there in lies an idea...... an organized press team our brothers and sisters can turn to get the the press up in a situation.

But let me sit my tail down.......who am I?

Till next time