Every magazine or tabloid I see once in a while there still comes up "something new" about the JonBenet case of whether or not her mother did it or whoever else. Now don't get me wrong, I believe what happened to that little girl was horrible and nobody deserves it. But why should she make headlines because she's rich, blonde and white pageant girl when there are children in third world African, South American, Asian, and even some European countries who are starving and dying every single day yet not even one soul notices.
Even in America, there are kids of all races that go missing. So why should a little rich white girl get all the news but yet innocent kids in the inner cities of hispanic, black, asian, and even some of the working class whites go missing daily and they never make even a dot in the newspaper. What does that say about our society?
2007-09-16 19:35:40 · 2 answers · asked by Dusk 6 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
I lived in Colorado at the time of the JonBenet Ramsey murder and never could understand why it got so much attention while two other murders of little girls in the same region didn't. One was the rape and murder of a five-year-old black girl whose body was thrown into a dumpster. It made the local news but nothing nationally. It turned out that she was murdered by a friend of the family. Another was a three-year-old mixed race girl who was killed when her mother slammed her head into a wall because she wouldn't sit still while the mother tried to fix her hair. Neither girl came from a rich family. While JonBenet's murder was horrible, the fact that she got so much attention because her family was rich and she was a cute white girl shows that there is a disparity between rich and poor in this case. It's as if the lives of rich white girls are somehow worth more than poor minority girls so they deserve to get more attention.
2007-09-16 20:43:53 · answer #1 · answered by RoVale 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What does it say about our American Society? People who read tabloids like to see adorable little white girls. . and not care about anything outside of that.
Oh, those same American tabloid readers also believe Elvis is alive, space aliens consult with W Bush, and most scary of all. . . they vote!
2007-09-17 02:42:50 · answer #2 · answered by irsx02 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It says that our society is messed up.
I think she is like the quinessential American dream family.
(sorry, but not in my book)
Who knows, maybe her faimly can afford a media person.
It is creepy.
2007-09-17 02:42:23 · answer #3 · answered by clcalifornia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋