CNN Drops Story of Ten Dead Black Women For One White Girl
Newsweek has an article on ten black women in North Carolina who are either missing or dead, in what might be a case of a serial killer. The murders began in 2005, and have received no national attention until now–except not really.
Ten women have been found slain or have been declared missing in Rocky Mount, N.C., in recent years. But the rest of the country hasn’t heard about a possible serial killer stalking the young women in this Southern town of 60,000. The latest victim, Elizabeth Jane Smallwood, was identified on Oct. 12. Why have the Rocky Mount homicides been largely ignored?
It’s impossible to deny that these stories would have received more attention had the victims been middle to upper-middle class suburban white girls, and the article discusses that very issue.
