As days roll into weeks, weeks into months, and months into years, their voices continue to cry out.
Black communities worldwide have extended our arms to embrace each other in an attempt to keep hope alive as we search for our missing African-American females. America 'refuses' to acknowledge our suffering as we lose our precious children, one by one. The growing consensus is that our lives, Black people's lives, are not valuable enough to merit concern, or to be given 'national' media attention. And yet, we were inundated with news reports of Jennifer Wilbanks, who 'pretended' to be missing and the whole nation responded IMMEDIATELY. Every major news network provided coverage in an effort to find Jennifer Wilbanks. Even after recanting her insidious claims of abduction, America continued to 'cater' to her whims.
The outcries of the African-American females listed below are not whims. They are pleas, beseeching Lady Justice to listen with her 'heart'. To extend to them the 'freedom', the 'liberty', the 'justice' that ALL men should have.
These beautiful African-American women are someone's daughter, someone's mother. It is my hope...it is my prayer... that they, along with all missing African-Americans, will be remembered and given the national attention that they deserve.
TAMIKA ANTONETTE HUSTON, age 24, missing since May 2004.
DAPHNE PHILISIA JONES, age 28 (disappeared at age 22), missing since January 03, 1999.
TYESHA PATRICE BELL, age 24 (disappeared at age 22), missing since May 2003.
DYMASHAL LASHON CULLINS, age 34 (disappeared at age 32), missing since August 2003.
LATOYA NATASHA THOMAS, age 30 (disappeared at age 25), missing since September 30, 2000.
SHIRLEY GEANES, age 40, missing since September 2004.
KIREASHA PAM LINKHORNE, age 20 (disappeared at age 19), missing since October 2003.
MARCIE CRANE, age 30 (disappeared at age 28), missing since October 2003.
*Read more about these missing African-American females @
http://www.essence.com
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