Replies to '09/15 The Disappearance of Natalee'

As a woman of color, I am getting personally offended by the negligence and hypocrisy of the media today.  I’m sorry, but I didn’t hear a heartless man today on the show – I heard a man who was pissed off and tired.  Whether he is guilty or not, he will be forever remembered (and treated) as one of the men who raped and helped murder or cover–up the murder of a white woman.  And for ANY man of ANY color that is an impossible stain to clean, even when cleared of all charges and found innocent.

Dr. Phil I feel you have made it worse for that boy by making that statement.  I feel sorry for him now because I heard his anger.  I DO NOT believe she is/was a virgin (I actually laughed out loud with that statement) and I don’t believe for a second she wasn’t dressed to impress the opposite sex, ESPECIALLY while on vacation on an exotic island.  Yes, to say she was dressed like a slut and acted like one was rude and uncalled for, but to call an 18 year old who was at a bar drinking and partying with her girlfriends an innocent child is the same nonsense (and sounds just as ridiculous for those of us YOUNG enough to know better) Why are her friends not being humiliated on national television for letting her go like that?  Sorry to tell you folks, but Angels especially under 21, don’t go to bars unless it’s as a DD.

We always see the happy pictures, the big smiles.  So my heart does go out to a fellow mother, but please excuse me if I don’t get all teary eyed over another “innocent white ‘girl’ gone missing by the hands of a black man – ugh…..we think” stories when all the “missing women of a darker-tone” stories, that end most of the time terribly, go unnoticed, ignored and found only in the paper under OBITUARIES.  One way or another, the days of blaming “the black man” are going to have to stop, because it’s getting really insulting and makes the media look stupid.  I know MY generation is not going to tolerate it much longer.