On the brink of yet another missing D.C. child, Osharna Pittman, it is important to continue the conversation regarding our missing Black and Latina girls.

You know sometimes when you think the world is coming back together, the signs of it falling apart return.

If you haven’t been aware of the situations going on in our country you really should be at this point. Flint, Michigan still has no clean water but the fight to make sure they do receive clean water has faded.

What happened to “hashtags” of black men that were victims of police brutality? I know no one wants to see them but let’s not pretend that the problem still doesn’t exist. Where are those stories? They are no longer on the news or making headlines anymore. An election that was over in November still has the world’s attention but people chose not to vote in the primaries or in the final election. So the focus is on “how did we get into this mess?’…well we kind of walked into it.

But that’s another story.

Imagine knowing that your sister, daughter or best friend is missing and the only thing you are aware of is that the police are informed. Now, the next day you find out yet another friend of yours is missing and come to find out that there are 14 girls missing from your school or neighborhood. And top it off they are Black Girls just like you that have fell under the police radar and no one seems to be trying to find them.

Now, it finally hits the media attention and now you find out that over 75,000 Black Girls and Women are missing in the United States right now.  It drives the same feeling you had when you found the number of Black Boys that were victims of police brutality and the numerous hashtags of their names.

But there is minimum attention on these girls, why? Because they have been classified as “runaways” so that their cases aren’t that big of a deal and that not only is that really the case for some of them, but the reason behind is just as terrible.

Did you know that majority of the girls that are missing were in foster care? And that some of them were being treated so badly that they ran away? Wow, what a pill to swallow right? When we have Black Girls that are victims yet again of someone being mentally, sexually and physically abusive to them because they are out to get a check and don’t really care for their well-being.

Here we are again, they brutalize our Black Men and refuse to find and help our Black Girls, they seem to know more about our royalty then we know. Think about it? …but that’s another blog.

The truth of the matter is that our girls are missing and we want them found because at what point did the police in Washington, DC neglected to make the decision to alert the world of this. Some of these girls maybe victims of human trafficking and we don’t know. The same way awareness was raised about police brutality (which those stories have faded away) this issue needs to be addressed in the same way.

But by no means am I shocked that it took this long, again those previously hashtags have stopped and no one knows if police are still killing our boys without us knowing.

So again imagine thinking that the world is going right for a change and then finding out that it’s falling apart.

And to be honest the only to pull it back together is if WE do it.

-A.C.T.

3/26/17

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