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Derrica Wilson of the “Black and Missing Foundation” says the Gabby Petito case is just more systemic racism.
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It took only one day for 22-year-old Gabby Petito’s remains to be found in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest before a black broadcaster with a national platform accused the girl’s freshly dead corpse of enjoying white privilege.
On Monday, the stubbornly joyless Joy Reid of MSNBC declared that the intense media coverage of Petito’s disappearance and eventual discovery was an example of “missing white woman syndrome,” a phrase she credited to the “late and great” black female reporter Gwen Ifill.
“It goes without saying that no family should ever have to endure that kind of pain,” Reid stated before slam-dunking her half-inflated basketball straight through the Race Hoop. “Why not the same media attention when people of color go missing?”
Reid then dragged a scowling black woman named Derrica Wilson of the Black and Missing Foundation and a scowling Injun woman named Lynette Grey Bull of something called Not Our Native Daughters to use Gabby Petito’s dead body as a soapbox on which to stand and openly whine that the world’s Missing Sistas weren’t getting as much airtime.
“One of the main factors and one of the key factors that a lot of people don’t want to talk about is that it’s racism,” howled Ms. Grey Bull. “It’s systemic racism.”
Great point. You never hear people talking about racism, much less systemic racism. It’s not as if you could go to Google right now, search the word “racism,” and get more results than there are people on the planet.
On Monday night, CNN’s resident Black Male Homo Don Lemon claimed that Brian Laundrie – who, along with his fiancée, had become an online sensation by documenting his cross-country road trip with Instagram “influencer” Gabby Petito since early July — was likewise a beneficiary of white privilege because neither he nor his parents had yet spoken to police regarding the supremely strange fact that Laundrie had returned home to Florida alone in his van on September 1: “You ask any person of color, you ask a black man who — if they have that sort of privilege.”
Perhaps it’s my white privilege blinding me, but I’m reasonably sure that all Negro Americans, including high-profile ones such as Don Lemon, also enjoy the right to remain silent.
On Twitter, someone who appears to be a white woman and who uses guilt as a tanning lotion asked, “Name one black woman who has gone missing & gotten media coverage. I’ll wait.”
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No need to wait, Sugar Tits. I can name that black woman: Tawana Brawley. She got massive media coverage in the late 1980s after disappearing for four days. When she surfaced, she claimed that six white men, at least one of whom was a cop, had raped her, smeared feces on her, scrawled racial epithets on her, and dumped her in a trash bag.
It was all a lie, of course.
But lies never stopped pontificators from lying. That’s what lying pontificators do. The New York Post ran an article about “missing white woman syndrome.” It quoted a Twitter user who wrote, “We would not know that Gabby Petito existed if she was Native American or black and not a pretty white blonde.” ABC News quoted “experts” who say that the “Gabby Petito case [was an] example of ‘missing white woman syndrome.’”
Mainstream media rarely if ever keep the same energy they have when white women go missing if the people who have disappeared are Black [sic] women or girls . . . it’s hard not to wonder why this story is receiving so much national coverage with some networks publishing live updates on the case’s progress.
I didn’t find it hard not to wonder about why the story was receiving so much national coverage. Then again, I’m not a black guy who gets paid to paint everything black.
A black chick at the Boston Globe wheezed:
I’m tired of violence against women. I’m tired that few care unless the victims are young and white. . . . Petito’s disappearance has been treated like the hot new true crime series to be discussed and dissected for hours — but only because she’s white.
Only because she’s white? How did this get past the fact-checkers and the editors?
One would get the sense from these senseless fulminations that whenever a white girl or woman goes missing, it immediately becomes a national news story. But judging from the total number of missing-persons cases filed in 2020 — over a half-million — and taking into account that about three in five of the cases involve whites and Hispanics (stats-compilers really need to start treating Hispanics as a distinct group from whites), combined with the fact that slightly more males go missing than females, somewhere around 160,000 white girls and women went missing last year, minus a dozen thousand or so señoritas.
How many of those cases became national stories? I can’t think of any last year, and Gabby Petito’s case is the only one I can recall from this year.
And even though more men than women go missing, I don’t remember a single high-profile case in my entire lifetime where the media made a huge stink about it. The only one that springs to mind was the Lindbergh baby, and that happened almost thirty years before I was born.
But extrapolating from last year’s numbers, at least 100,000 white girls and women at the very least have likely gone missing so far this year, but the only one who’s become a household name — and only over the last two weeks or so — is Gabby Petito.
What made her different from the hordes of other missing white females?
The likely answer is a simple one, but not so simple that it didn’t fly over the heads of simpletons such as Joy Reid and Don Lemon. Being media personalities, the answer should have been obvious to them.
Since early July, Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie, both in their early 20s and thus entirely digitally raised, had been documenting their road trip for all the world to see. As of this writing, their video “VAN LIFE: Beginning Our Van Journey” — which is morbidly sweet in light of recent events that include Laundrie’s sudden and likely self-imposed disappearance, and the fact that on Tuesday, investigators ruled Petito’s death a homicide — had racked up nearly five million views on YouTube. Gabby’s Instagram account has a million followers.
Given the hyper-obsessive focus on the case of late, it’s difficult to discern how much of that social-media clout was accrued after reports emerged of Gabby’s disappearance, but several accounts claim their self-documented road trip had already gone “viral” before that.
Laundrie’s lonely trip home and his zipped lips regarding what happened to a girl he seemed to be hopelessly in love with is extremely suspicious, as is the fact that he apparently fled from his parents’ Florida home — where he reportedly had lived with his fiancée for a year before they embarked on their summertime road trip — only two days before her remains were found.
The predictable feminist leap to judgment that he was another monstrous male who savagely battered and then killed an innocent blonde dove is complicated by the fact that in several reports (this one and this one, for example), witnesses claim that they saw her hitting him.
But if betting were legal in Georgia, I’d bet my house that the reason most of the nation is now aware of the case has nothing to do with them being white and everything to do with them being so attention-hungry that they broadcast their summer vacation for all the world to see.
Does anyone seriously doubt that if a young black couple had accrued a significant social-media following while documenting an identical cross-country trip, and the woman suddenly disappeared while the male silently returned to his parents, the case wouldn’t be getting an equivalent amount of attention? If you don’t think blacks are capable of garnering preposterously large social-media followings, you don’t know much about social media.
This world would become a much saner place overnight if people stopped blaming white people for everything and started blaming many of society’s innumerable ills on social-media whores’ insatiable lust for attention.
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This is the correct response. Most missing persons, just like most amber alerts, aren’t interesting stories. Most missing persons make sense once you hear the persons biographical background. It’s when they’re unusual and unexplained that they become fodder for interest.
The prolific coverage by MSM of this tawdry tabloid story has surprised me. I figured they would be called out on the privilege thing.
Advertisers are putting super-strong pressure on MSM to deliver eyeballs, especially those of that most-coveted 18 to 34 white female demographic. I think that is why we persistently see MSM presenting images and sob-stories involving “distressed children” like “poor little drowned Elio Gonzales” and “children in cages” etc. Such stories and images deliver the women to advertisers and also recruit them for the Left. A double win for the System.
And the perennial “if it bleeds it leads” is also operating, thus the tabloid stories. Women eat them up too.
“(stats-compilers really need to start treating Hispanics as a distinct group from whites)”
Yes!!
A lesson learned far too late: outsider groups whose fundamental identity as groups is built on resentment against you can never be placated or accomodated, much less assimilated or learn to co-exist peacefully with you. In fact, the more you attempt to treat them fairly, the more resentful they become.
Blacks and Hebrews have this in common.
Also the story distracts us from the ongoing invasion and replacement, the incompetence of our government, the waste and degeneracy consuming our society
Win-Win for corporate media
I only see those people when far-right commentators show clips of them.
That, that “Don Lemon?” I mean, you can’t reach the remote fast enough.
Since identitarianism is only directed toward (against) the whites, even the president openly said he is “diluting your genes for America to gain strength ” hence massive importation of the third world migrants, and you have Lemon and Reed assuming a role of all but call for open violence against whites, in the style of Hutu disc-jockeys at the outset and during the Rwandan genocide. They are not afraid of the “white nationalists” they declared “the biggest threat” – and Biden and the establishment consider whites as “weak” because he said so and he is probably right! Tucker Carlson made a segment exactly about that – and he received the grief from the members of the GOP. There is no unity, there is no leadership (yet) who will take up the cause of the white working-class, in the meantime, we can only complaint to each other.
Soon one day, the Left will be telling the world that there’s something in the very breath of White people that is poisoning the atmosphere and is the major culprit behind Climate Change — which is their other bang-on moral position.
So then, it’s off to Antarctica for us all — all 800 million +- of us — or maybe just out to the Australian Outback, truly the most desolate place on earth, so I’ve heard. At the very least, sterilization of each of us — though we’re doing a pretty good job of doing that to ourselves today.
Short of all this, we really have to promote ‘racial divorce’ — which this group has promulgated right along. Otherwise, it is going to continue daily, with some new problem ‘with the White’ emanating from one or more of our various resident minorities. who will also surely spread their venom to the newly-arriving “wretched refuse longing to breathe free”.
We really have to become aware that we’re being attacked head-on and “Wake Up!” is too puny a phrase for this gathering storm. “Annie get your gun” comes to mind. Or better yet, learn to ride a horse Western style — that really seems to upset them, judging from the latest uproar at the border this past week.
” everything to do with them being so attention-hungry that they broadcast their summer vacation for …”
As it’s turning out I think that the attention that Gabby’s getting is due to the fact that she was an extremely cute, innocent-looking, young girl, hopelessly in love with an ugly sleaze-bag appearing, unappreciative artist who didn’t recognize his own good fortune in snagging an uber-babe.
Yes, she could be a bit ditsy and at 22 was worried about quitting her job and trying the blogging route to fame. But at 22, it’s not like she was 41 &1/2 or worried about feeding her family of four. The media’s milking the story for all it’s worth and the Black big wheels {please observe correct use of capitalization} are unhappy at the momentary loss of attention.
As far as nobody bemoaning any disappearance of Black females lately that’s because nobody wants them. Certainly not Black males. Also they aren’t often cute and innocent but ugly and conniving. They’re really only desirable to US administration officials who apparently want to import all 4 billion (projected African pop by 2100) African Blacks.
“Missing blacks.” I read an Onion article a long time ago about this. It had a law enforcement spokesman saying something like “so many people care about this individual, he is so valued at his workplace and in his family, that we can’t not expect to get clues as to what happened.” I looked for that but couldn’t find it.
That was really racist. Does anyone remember the racist 70s Mad magazine thing, an update of the Classical Wonders of the World? It was mid-70s. They had the Colossus of San Juan, a takeoff on the Colossus of Rhodes. It was a giant statue of an unshaven yob standing over Puerto Rico’s San Juan harbor with a vacant expression on his unshaven face, wearing nothing but a wifebeater and boxers, pointing north towards New York, “the land of takeout chicken and unlimited welfare benefits.” Man, was that racist! Funny as hell, too.
“No one who’ll be missed.” — Pulp Fiction
“No one who’ll be missed.” — Pulp Fiction
Indeed, most people who “go missing” are drug addicts, fugitives, etc. I’m sure her beauty was part of it, but that really isn’t necessarily as sinister as it sounds. When sadistic predators go looking for victims, they look for young and pretty ones. Hence, the extra solicitude is warranted.
The predictable feminist leap to judgment that he was another monstrous male who savagely battered and then killed an innocent blonde dove is complicated by the fact that in several reports (this one and this one, for example), witnesses claim that they saw her hitting him.
Noone cares about that, Mr. Goad. The overwhelming majority domestic violence-related homicide victims are women, and I suspect most of those who are not were killed by a gay lover. Other serious casualties, such as broken bones, I would assume are similarly lopsided.
“Hey everybody!! Look at me!!!! I’m going on a two-month long road trip with my boyfriend/fiance!!!! Don’t you wish you were me?”#aspirations #lookatme #stupidbitch #douchebag
I have absolutely no care for this broad getting snuffed, honestly, good riddance. The fact that people like her post their whole life on-line is beyond pathetic. The fact that people “follow” her is even more pathetic and downright disturbing. Constantly updating their “status” it is a wonder that more girls/women don’t wind up missing and/or dead. We people who reside in the real world, and not the Mtv version, realize that there are a lot of sick, disturbed individuals out there and you just gave them your 20. Whatever the cause of death, it is evident that nature prevailed. #hope
I’ve been following the case because I have known two insecure and emotionally unstable women who subjected me to repeated, deliberate, and aggressive provocation (both were insanely jealousy of my exes). This resulted in physical altercations (usually at the door when I tried to get out of the room) and I am curious whether such situations could have fatal results. I’m bearing in mind Laurence and Olivier and Vivien Leigh – he once thought he’d killed her after one of her violent bipolar outbursts. I don’t know whether Gabby Petito was bipolar, but she was certainly a hyper-emotional narcissist, and described herself as ‘OCD’, so it’s an interesting case.
Apart from that, I admit I am interested because she looks like an angel (in my culture, angels are white). Media-attention is surely bolstered by the fact that she was a publicity-seeker but also because the media is generally owned and controlled by whites. Black-owned and controlled media (I’m sure there must be such a thing) would naturally be more interested in missing black women. I don’t see any problem.
I’ve been following the case because I have known two insecure and emotionally unstable women who subjected me to repeated, deliberate, and aggressive provocation (both were insanely jealousy of my exes). This resulted in physical altercations (usually at the door when I tried to get out of the room) and I am curious whether such situations could have fatal results.
You can’t just escalate to deadly force because you’ve been “provoked.” You have to have a reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm. These attempts to devictimize Gabby are silly.
the media is generally owned and controlled by whites.
Lol. I do think race is a factor in this case, but not in the way black ladies claim. Rather, it is the race of the perpetrator that matters. If Gabby had a black boyfriend, the media coverage would have been completely different.
“It’s not as if you could go to Google right now, search the word “racism,” and get more results than there are people on the planet.”
Excuse me, Sir James, but I just went to Google, searched the word “racism” and got 438 000 000 results, while the population of Earth clocked at 7 800 000 000 since 2020. I’m assuming you’re not talking about the population of a different planet…
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