Joy Reid: Missing White Woman Syndrome Is Very Real!

Joy Reid asks the question: Why doesn't people of color missing get news coverage?

 

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Joy-Ann Reid is the No. 1 primetime host in 7pm hour. Her MSNBC show The ReidOut has pulled in over 2.6 million viewers and has surpassed Fox News Primetime and Erin Burnett. 

The progressive agitator has been a thorn to the far-right. She is using the same formula that Keith Olbermann used to generate ratings, interest and controversy. Reid has been feuding with some of the personalities over at Fox. 

In particular is Tuckems.

The No. 1 primetime host for the 8pm hour refers to her as the "race lady." 

America knows more about Gabby Petito than the thousands of missing people in the country.

Entertainer Nicki Minaj is feuding with her. The entertainer blatantly false story about a cousin's friend was ridiculed by the junk food media. Reid called out the entertainer for spreading bullshit. Nicki called her Uncle Tomiana for doing it. 

She has often riled up the far-right over the fact that she's very clear about her thoughts and opinions of America right now. Since Washed Up 45 left the White House, the tensions have increased.

Republicans continue to rewrite the history. They believe they had no role in the insurrection. They're worked up over transgender children playing sports. They are worked up over women making decisions with their bodies. They are worked up over critical race theory. They are worked up over migrants coming to the United States from the southern border. They are worked up over wearing masks in public. They are worked up over politicians telling them to get vaccinated. They are worked up over the very same culture wars that led to the election victory of Washed Up 45.

Play on white nationalism and win elections.

Reid has been very critical of the junk food media and its coverage of Gaby Petitio. The feds confirm that the body of Petito was discovered at Grand Teton National Party in Wyoming.

Now her fiance is under the feds radar and they are seeking information on his whereabouts.

The junk food media has gave us play-by-play coverage of her disappearance and now murder. Social media was instrumental in getting attention to her.

The feds recovered her body and confirmed her death on Tuesday.

Reid has called it out and used the term that many like myself used whenever the junk food media obsesses with missing attractive well-off white women. It's called Missing White Women Syndrome.

It was term coined by the late Gwen Ifill and I can claim credit for being one of the firsts to edit the term on Wikipedia back in 2004. I remember doing it around the time of Natalee Holloway. Her disappearance in Aruba became non-stop coverage on Fox, CNN and MSNBC. It gave birth to the world most annoying court room agitator, Nancy Grace. 

It is known fact that the junk food media covered wall-to-wall coverage of missing white women. Like most of us, we love to see a happy ending to a missing person case. But when it comes to a white woman, it's always leading Republicans to draft stupid laws based of the deaths of them. Not all laws are bad, but usually they're named after white people. 

Congress can't even get John Lewis Voting Rights and the George Floyd Policing Reform act passed.

Reid has said the quiet part out loud and it's driven the far-right nuts.

“The way this story captivated the nation,” Reid told her viewers, “has many wondering why not the same media attention when people of color go missing? Well, the answer actually has a name: Missing White Woman Syndrome, the term coined by the late and great Gwen Ifill to describe the media and public fascination with missing white women like Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway while ignoring cases involving of people of color.”

While noting the inconsistencies in the media’s coverage of Americans gone missing, Reid acknowledged the sadness of the Petito case. “It goes without saying that no family should ever endure that type of pain,” she said, “and the Petito family certainly deserves answers and justice.”

Derrica Wilson of the Black and Missing Foundation and Lynette Grey Bull of Not Our Native Daughters Foundation. They pointed out a case of a missing 24-year-old young Black man who disappeared after a car crash in Arizona in June. His case is only now starting to get national media attention.

As previously reported, Daniel Robinson was last seen driving away from his job site in the Buckeye, Arizona desert on June 23. His father, David Robinson, has been organizing search parties, launched a website, and he even hired a private investigator after he felt law enforcement authorities weren’t providing much help. Their family has set up a GoFundMe to continue their search for Daniel.

Reid noted that she had not heard of Daniel Robinson’s case until a friend shared the information with her.

No one in the junk food media including us covered Daniel Robinson's disappearance.

“It is definitely the issue,” said Wilson. “And we have been sounding the alarm for nearly 14 years because of this. When it comes to missing persons of color, men, women and children, our cases are not taken seriously, and no one is looking for us if we were to go missing.”

Reid asked guest Grey Bull why she feels missing indigenous women don’t get media coverage, and she replied, “One of the main factors and one of the key factors that a lot of people don’t want to talk about is that it’s racism. It’s systemic racism. We’re still fighting oppression in our tribal communities. We are still facing inequality across the board, whether it comes to our community, housing, jobs.”

“I mean, you can pick any topic in any country and have an issue there,” said Grey Bull. “So, it’s no different when it comes to missing, murdered indigenous women and girls.”