Thanks so much for the comment Martita! I definitely agree that the underlying sentiment behind most of the outrage is that there is often a sense of apathy or ambivalence around the wellbeing of people of color where there are public outcries for white people in the same position. And I especially agree that this isn't the best comparison for the outrage since she was an influencer, and I strongly suspect if Cardi B went missing there would be an uproar like never seen before in human history.

But I think what irritates me and the point of writing this is that the content of what they're writing and the way they're writing it doesn't have any underlying, actionable thesis -- as in, the most intuitive and sometimes the specifically articulated recommendation is for the media to treat victims of color the same way. I haven't seen a critique of this kind of media response in absolutely any of the many critiques of MWWS that I have read. It would be one thing if they were predominantly focused on those statistics, but they're not; they're focused almost universally on the lack of this type of coverage for missing people of color, and that's where I am getting upset.

The statistics and the general proclivities towards rape/abduction/murder, especially pertaining to intimate partner violence and amplified often in the context of poverty is absolutely a topic we should be learning about in our media and is very unsurprisingly not something our media covers with any integrity or consistency because intersectionality/complexity/unsexy non-shiny objects don't sell, and that is disgusting. But I don't think anything I've seen on this topic has meaningfully advocated for this kind of teaching/awareness without implicitly or explicitly suggesting that this kind of coverage simply needs to be extended to all the missing people of color.