Daily News | Carlee Russell’s kidnapping hoax shouldn’t distract us from the real issue of missing women and girls
“I ask your readers to name a person of color who has garnered the same attention as Natalee Holloway and Chandra Levy outside of Carlee Russell and you can’t, because it doesn’t happen,” Natalie Wilson, co-founder of the Black & Missing Foundation, told me. What’s more, she said, analysis by her organization has found that cases of missing people of color remain open four times longer than others, in part, “because they are not getting that media coverage.
The Philadelphia Police Department sends out regular emails about missing people. I scan them when I can.According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons Database,across the country. Thankfully, some cases are solved before a story about them can even make it into print.
I hope that Russell’s fabrications won’t stop us from raising alarm bells when people of color turn up missing. And I hope that her case, if anything, is a lesson on the power of attention in resolving what happened to a missing person. “Think about the influencers, the media coverage that the Carlee Russell case got,” Wilson pointed out. “Can you imagine if we put the same energy into finding other missing people? We can bring many more people home.”
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