Comments on: What About Stepha?

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By: Kory Bakker

Kory Bakker — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 07:10:42 +0000

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By: afrobella » Still Searching for Stepha

afrobella » Still Searching for Stepha — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:40:37 +0000

[...] The vivacious graduate student disappeared during this year’s Memorial Day festivities here in South Florida. The search continues, and her family and friends continue to pray for her safe return. They recently held a vigil at a church in Miramar, as an expression of their faith that she is still alive, and as a reminder that the search for Stepha continues. [...]

By: karla

karla — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:07:57 +0000

we all know that a missing black girl is not going to get as much media attention as a missing white girl. We have to start getting the information out our selves among our comunity through websites like this. BET would be a good start they should have room to something positive with all that other garbage they show.

By: LAUREN

LAUREN — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:04:11 +0000

I HEARD OF THIS STORY ON AMERICA’S MOST WANTED THIS PAST SATURDAY, AND I AM HAPPY THAT THEY DID BROADCAST THIS STORY B.C IT IS REALLY RARE THAT BLACK WOMEN THAT ARE ABUSED OR MISSING ARE BEING BROADCASTED ON THEIR LOCAL NEWS OR ON NATIONAL NEWS. MY PRAYERS ARE W HER FAMILY AND I PRAY SHE IS FOUND SAFE AND SOUND

By: ExpatJane

ExpatJane — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00:05 +0000

Thanks for posting about this too Afrobella. I heard about it and posted a blog the day I heard about it back on June 15th (it was the 15th here in Seoul but the 14th back home as we’re one day ahead here). I also sent it out on both MySpace and Facebook.

I think that by taking action we can make a difference. We’ve started a blog called Missing Minorities to that end: http://missingminorities.blogspot.com/

Here is a very detailed blog on Stepha’s case: http://www.crimesceneblog.com/?p=535

Let’s take action and stop waiting for the media. When we hear about these stories let’s email our friends, send notices out on MySpace or whatever networks we’re on and, if we have blogs, let’s blog it.

By: Annazayla

Annazayla — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:31:19 +0000

I think the lack of media coverage surrounding Stepha’s disapperance is due to her race. There is not ONE excuse, reason, or explanation that can be given as to why this beautiful young women has received more than less media coverage than the other missing women (white women: Jessie Davis and Lisa S.).

By: Bebroma

Bebroma — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:17:30 +0000

They say they found Jessie, have arrested the boyfriend…maybe if there were 1000 people looking for Stepha, she could be found, too.

By: AndSoThen

AndSoThen — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:28:57 +0000

Thanks Bella for putting the spotlight on Stepha Henry. I am a true crime buff and follow lots of these cases and it angers me that each and every time, color is an issue in the media when it comes to which case they will champion. In Jessie Davis’s case, the horror of it is so much more salacious. It helps that her baby daddy is a black married cop, who is a Person of interest/suspect in her case.
Stepha’s case is so odd to me becasuse there are so obvious things being overlooked so its seems the efforts are not the same. I pray for her family and her safe return and all bloggers and blog readers pass her name and story along please. We can be our own media on the net, do not let us lose this smart, educated wonderful black woman.

By: mochachoc

mochachoc — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:10:20 +0000

Hi Bella
its been awhile since i checked in but i thought i would reply to this post and admit a misinformed effect of the biased media reporting. I live in London and the biased reporting has led me to erroneously believe that white women and girls are the victims of serial killers, paedophiles, breast cancer and skin cancer but not Black women. I know this isn’t true but I often forget because when these issues are highlighted it is nearly always with white women and girls in mind. It is as though the media has unwittingly engendered the notion that certain crimes have a racial and gender profile. what this leads to is a complacency on the part of the public (me including) that Black women and girls are not abducted, men and boys are not raped or that Black people cannot get sunburn. I remember when I first got ill and a junior doctor suspected multiple sclerosis only for the consultant to take one look at me and declare without examining me that it couldn’t be MS. According to him people of African descent didn’t get MS. What a load of BS and completely unintelligent. this makes me wonder whether this kind of biased thinking exists within the police force. when a black woman goes missing do they instantly dismiss the idea that she has been abducted and killed. what kind of faulty logic goes on in the mind when they discover a black woman has gone missing? Black women need to be protected and talked about with the same level of seriousness as white women.