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Originally posted by Bee
It is interesting that a large number of the cases like this that get national attention are wealthy white children.
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I think it has much more to do with being wealthy than white. Wealth simply gives you more resources and it makes the story more compelling. If it was a wealthy black child, I have the feeling it would also get a large amount of coverage. It's a different situation, but the short disappearance of Bill Cosby's kid, before they found him dead, got a lot of news play when it happened. The fact of the matter is that if a wealthy child is kidnapped, statistics are going to dictate that he or she will be white.
It is sort of the O.J. situation...wealth just gives you more privileges.