On the Brink of Yet Another Missing Black Girl in D.C., Let’s Continue the Conversation: Where Are Our Black Girls?

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by Aqueilla C Terry - Apr 4, 2017

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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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Aqueilla C. Terry, commonly known to many of her followers as “A.C.T” ; is a talented artists of this generation. Born and raised in Richmond, VA is truly a gem of her time. She has been writing for over 10 years as a young child to know a young woman in a world were “words” are her weapon of choice to achieve success. Often considered to be Erykah Badu’s daughter for her way with words, style, presence, music selections and overall persona. A.C.T. is definitely going to take over the world with wide range of creativity. Her ambition is driven by her will to succeed in reaching her goals, but by doing so by remaining herself along the journey. A.C.T. redefines the young black woman by sticking to her beliefs and who she is inside.

Let’s Shift The Focus: 10 Updates – #MissingDCGirls #FindOurMissing #FindOurMissingDCGirlsNow

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by Syllabus Magazine - Mar 26, 2017

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10 interesting updates about our missing girls in the D.C. area. Continue to pray and look out for our girls.

1) Fiction: 14 Girls in D.C. did not disappear in one day. What did we tell you all about believing memes?

2) Fact: Just because 14 girls did not disappear in one day doesn’t mean there is not a problem. There are currently 22 open missing kid cases in D.C.

3) The public’s concern is that when children of color are missing, police often assume they are runaways rather than victims of abduction. In conjunction, Karimah Bilal, a police spokeswoman stated, “All of the teens who have been reported missing in 2017 left voluntarily”.

4) NBC publicly called out celebrities for spreading misinformation about the teens. NBC Washington stated, “Actress Taraji P. Henson, rapper LL Cool J and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons were among the celebrities who shared the post claiming that 14 girls had vanished in a single day. It is almost as if some media are blaming the public outcry on tweets, instead of the concern of the missing children.

5) Over the weekend police reported that 10-year-old, 4’5″, 60-pound, brown eyed, black and gray haired, Winter Griffin was found “in good health”. Are we glad she was found – of course. Does the fact that a 10-year old, 60 lb girl went missing for a few days and simply reappeared still alarm us – yes!

“Any time you have a 10-year-old missing for any amount of hours and no one knows where he or she is, that is rules for immediate attention, an alert needs to be sent out. The more time that goes past, the less likely we are to find him or her.”Trayon White- DC Councilman

6) Police say missing kids have to meet certain criteria for an Amber Alert to be issued:

1)Reasonable belief that the missing was abducted

2)The child is in danger of injury or death

3)Specific and descriptive info about the child and the abduction

4)Missing must be 17 yrs old, or younger

5)Child’s name has been entered into the National Crime Info Center system

7) police claim currently, none of the missing fit this criteria

8) Police claim that none of the missing are victims of trafficking, kidnapping, or organ harvesting

9) Police also claim that the number of missing cases have actually declined. 2,222 cases in 2014, 2,433 in 2015 and 2,242 in 2016. However, when CNN requested the 2017 numbers so far this year, Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately return requests for comment on those figures

10) On Tuesday lawmakers asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the FBI to “devote the resources necessary to determine whether these developments are an anomaly, or whether they are indicative of an underlying trend that must be addressed.”

Watch Commander Dickerson’s Facebook Live update regarding the outcry to find out what is happening with the missing D.C. Girls

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On the Brink of Yet Another Missing Black Girl in D.C., Let’s Continue the Conversation: Where Are Our Black Girls?

Let’s Shift The Focus: 10 Updates – #MissingDCGirls #FindOurMissing #FindOurMissingDCGirlsNow

10 interesting updates about our missing girls in the D.C. area. Continue to pray and look out for our girls.

1) Fiction: 14 Girls in D.C. did not disappear in one day. What did we tell you all about believing memes?

2) Fact: Just because 14 girls did not disappear in one day doesn’t mean there is not a problem. There are currently 22 open missing kid cases in D.C.

3) The public’s concern is that when children of color are missing, police often assume they are runaways rather than victims of abduction. In conjunction, Karimah Bilal, a police spokeswoman stated, “All of the teens who have been reported missing in 2017 left voluntarily”.

“Any time you have a 10-year-old missing for any amount of hours and no one knows where he or she is, that is rules for immediate attention, an alert needs to be sent out. The more time that goes past, the less likely we are to find him or her.”Trayon White- DC Councilman

6) Police say missing kids have to meet certain criteria for an Amber Alert to be issued:

1)Reasonable belief that the missing was abducted

2)The child is in danger of injury or death

3)Specific and descriptive info about the child and the abduction

4)Missing must be 17 yrs old, or younger

5)Child’s name has been entered into the National Crime Info Center system

7) police claim currently, none of the missing fit this criteria

8) Police claim that none of the missing are victims of trafficking, kidnapping, or organ harvesting

9) Police also claim that the number of missing cases have actually declined. 2,222 cases in 2014, 2,433 in 2015 and 2,242 in 2016. However, when CNN requested the 2017 numbers so far this year, Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately return requests for comment on those figures

10) On Tuesday lawmakers asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the FBI to “devote the resources necessary to determine whether these developments are an anomaly, or whether they are indicative of an underlying trend that must be addressed.”

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10 interesting updates about our missing girls in the D.C. area. Continue to pray and look out for our girls.

1) Fiction: 14 Girls in D.C. did not disappear in one day. What did we tell you all about believing memes?

2) Fact: Just because 14 girls did not disappear in one day doesn’t mean there is not a problem. There are currently 22 open missing kid cases in D.C.

3) The public’s concern is that when children of color are missing, police often assume they are runaways rather than victims of abduction. In conjunction, Karimah Bilal, a police spokeswoman stated, “All of the teens who have been reported missing in 2017 left voluntarily”.

“Any time you have a 10-year-old missing for any amount of hours and no one knows where he or she is, that is rules for immediate attention, an alert needs to be sent out. The more time that goes past, the less likely we are to find him or her.”Trayon White- DC Councilman

6) Police say missing kids have to meet certain criteria for an Amber Alert to be issued:

1)Reasonable belief that the missing was abducted

2)The child is in danger of injury or death

3)Specific and descriptive info about the child and the abduction

4)Missing must be 17 yrs old, or younger

5)Child’s name has been entered into the National Crime Info Center system

7) police claim currently, none of the missing fit this criteria

8) Police claim that none of the missing are victims of trafficking, kidnapping, or organ harvesting

9) Police also claim that the number of missing cases have actually declined. 2,222 cases in 2014, 2,433 in 2015 and 2,242 in 2016. However, when CNN requested the 2017 numbers so far this year, Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately return requests for comment on those figures

10) On Tuesday lawmakers asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the FBI to “devote the resources necessary to determine whether these developments are an anomaly, or whether they are indicative of an underlying trend that must be addressed.”

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