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"'The View' on Crime" Exposes a Media Bias Against Minority Victims

January 25, 2012 | Posted at 2:34 PM

Chris Cuomo and S. Epatha Merkerson, stars of TV's Find Our Missing, visited the show today to bring to light a shocking phenomenon: The vastly disporportionate amount of media coverage for kidnapped and missing white children over African-American ones. In the following three videos, we explore the possible reasons for this, ways to help, and highlight two missing African-American children whose families need your help!

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JerryTalbert Says:

January 27th, 2012, 12:39 am

I love Chris but I don't understand why he used the people he did to make a point because he was clearly wrong. He was comparing Black adults to babies and children who disappeared as if a flying saucer had beamed them up. Everyone went out to search for baby Lisa because she was a baby and could not have left under her own power or protect herself from kidnappers. The next one was a child of color who was left strapped in his carseat while the mother walked two miles to get gasoline...even though she had plenty of gas in her car. So where are these children? They stopped everything on Baby Lisa because they couldn't find her. Older children can run off to a friends house. I know this because Kansas City just had a mentally challenged youth disappear after missing her school bus. The next morning a teacher that knew the child took a small roadtrip and found the 13 yearold child walking up a street that nobody but her thought about. The National Media loves a good story but that doesn't mean that the police department or local media has given up.

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