MSNBC's Joy Reid dismisses focus on Gabby Petito case as 'missing White woman syndrome'
-- 'Why not the same media attention when people of color go missing?' Reid asked
I saw this story and had to agree with Joy Reid on this one.
"MSNBC host Joy Reid turned to race Monday while discussing the media's coverage of missing 22-year-old Gabby Petito, dismissing the focus on the case as "missing White woman syndrome."
During a segment on her show "The ReidOut," Reid said while Petito's family deserved "answers and justice," she felt the same media attention didn't apply to non-White people when they go missing. "
In 2020 209,375 females under 21 reported missing, and 59,369 females over the age of 21 were reported missing. So far this year there have been 1,571 missing persons reported, 1546 cases have been closed, with 25 currently remaining open.
So why isn't there 24/7 coverage of the other 24 cases right now? Why is the news only covering Gabby Petito?
Is it because Gabby was a beautiful, young, blonde white girl?
'Missing White woman syndrome. The term coined by the late and great Gwen Iffil to describe the media and public fascination with missing White women like Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway, while ignoring cases involving missing people of color," she added, referencing two well-known cases of missing women.
MSNBC has extensively covered the case and its website Monday morning prominently featured an opinion piece on the missing woman.
Reid spent the remainder of the segment discussing multiple instances of missing Black and Native American individuals she claimed to have never heard about in the same way as the Petito case.'
So why does the media only seem to report on missing white women? IS it an issue of RACE?
To some, perhaps an even bigger question right now is WHY DOES A MISSING WHITE GIRL WARRANT 24//7 COVERAGE RIGHT NOW? WHY DOES THIS 'MISSING PERSONS' CASE MERRIT MORE MEDCIA ATTENTION THAN HUNDREDS OF AMERCIANS AND ALLIES STILL STRANDED IN AFGHANISTAN OR MORE ATTENTION THAN THE DETERIORATING BORDER DISASTER?
MSNBC Joy Reid says national coverage of Gabby Petito's case is a symptom of "Missing White Woman Syndrome" and missing minority women don't receive the same coverage.
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While the fear of being kidnapped may persist for one’s entire life, the number of missing persons under the age of 21 was much higher than those 21 and over in the United States in 2024.
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All Data as of 2/25/2026 (updated daily, M-F) Missing Person Cases 2019 2020 2021 2022
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Board-certified forensic pathologist anticipates challenges in the autopsy of Gabby Petito because of the time her body had to decompose.
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News Nation took another path, as Joy always makes everything about Race, it's always about her race, because she too is a self serving racist.
News Nation however talked about the discrepancy between the devotion and man power to search for white woman, but lack the same desire and attention towards missing Native Americans.
Biden doesn't care, because that demographic are not needle movers in the political arena, as their vote numbers are to low for his concern.
Trump and his administration on the other hand did great things for the plight of these Native American Woman, unbeknownst to the general public who were not gonna see this stuff in the hide everything positive news.
The Dems glossed over for years Native American Issues:
“From Wyoming's Wind River Country to members of Canada's First Nations, the crisis of violence against Indigenous women and girls transcends state and national borders. Here in our own country, presidents of both parties have tried and failed to find lasting solutions,” Rose Dunleavy writes in U.S. News & World Report.
“To his credit, President Donald Trump has remained committed to our cause.”
Justice remains out of reach for so many Indigenous victims of violence. Scores of families are left to wonder if their mother or daughter will ever be found or their killer apprehended. From Wyoming's Wind River Country to members of Canada's First Nations, the crisis of violence against Indigenous women and girls transcends state and national borders. To his credit, (then) President Donald Trump had remained committed to The Native American cause. The U.S. Department of Justice, for example, recently awarded over $560 million in grants to support public safety, crime victims and youth programs in tribal communities.
When Attorney General William Barr visited rural Alaska 2 years or so ago, he took their concerns seriously, joining their efforts by declaring a public safety emergency and devoting tens of millions of dollars to combating crime and assisting victims.
More importantly, he took their plight to then president Trump, who responded by creating Operation Lady Justice, a historic nationwide effort to bring justice to missing and murdered Indigenous people. The job of the task force was to develop protocols to handle unsolved missing or murdered persons cases, and to provide closure to the many families who have gone without it for far too long.
The last summer in the Trump Administration, the task force accomplished a major milestone with the opening of a cold case office in Anchorage, Alaska. This new office joined five existing Operation Lady Justice offices in Arizona, Montana and several other important locations. These are tangible resources that represent a long-term commitment to our nation's first peoples.
The former president also had called for much-needed reforms to the Indian Health Service. Last year, then First Lady Melania Trump was briefed on a White House task force's recommendations for eliminating child abuse in a system that serves 2.6 million Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
The task force's 10 recommendations range from annual awareness training conducted by child welfare experts to withholding pay from retired employees convicted of exploiting children. The Trump administration stood ready to implement these common sense solutions to ensure the terrible abuses seen in the past are never repeated.
So while Biden is supporting and protecting the abuses of woman and children, and his administration shows a contrast between search efforts for missing white woman compared to the efforts given other races, Trump was focused on the plight of these abuses and actually did something about it, protecting the people that the Dems have long forgotten for years.
Note: I brought up these discrepancies almost a year ago back in Oct 21, 2020.
*When Joe Biden was a child, he always chose to be the cowboy and never the Indian when playing Cowboys and Indians. He admitted this to Kamala Harris who replied: Joe, you do realize I'm a different kind of Indian, right? *Joke* Seriously though the Dems glossed over for years Native...
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