i think they frequently became the voice of there is so much attention to this missing, deservedly, attention to a white girl who is missing, but, boy, we have all these other young women of color who are missing too, why does no one really care about their disappearance? and i think people began to really as they started looking into disparities in this kind of thing, willing to look at the work they re doing. talking about the media disparity in covering stories of missing black and brown women, let s put up on the screen why the components to why there is this disparity in the media coverage. you see it there, runaways, a lot of minority children are initially classified as runaways, criminals, missing minority adults are labeled as associated with criminal involvement, gangs and drugs, and desensitization is believed that missing minorities live in impoverished conditions and crime is a regular part of their