Body of Latasha Norman MAY have been found- MSNBC Only Manages to Report on the Body of Missing White Stripper

This is just speculation at this point. I don't want to take us on the roller coaster ride we went on with Nailah Franklin, but I did want to update those who had been following the story of Latasha Norman.

Jackson Police have discovered a body. Right now there is speculation that it is the body of missing Jackson State Student Latasha Norman.

According to reports, a body was found in the area of Brown Street near Tougaloo in Jackson. The coroner arrived on scene shortly after jackson police. WLBT

Now this report filed 31 minutes ago has a police officer saying it was definitely her:

Stanley Cole has been arrested in connection with the death of JSU student Latasha Norman. Cole, who is Norman's former boyfriend, faces murder charges.

A JPD officer tells News Channel 12 Norman's body was found around 2:00 Thursday afternoon on Brown Street near Tougaloo College in Jackson. The 20-year-old accounting major was last seen November 13th leaving a class on campus.SOURCE

Haven't heard about Natasha Norman? Well that is not surprising. She was a Black woman after all. When we go missing the editorial decision-makers in the newsrooms of America have decided that our kidnappings, rapes and murders just aren't newsworthy.

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UPDATE: So I click to MSNBC.COM and there is a photo on the main page and I look at the title and it is about a recovered body.
"Police: Corpse likely that of secret porn star" Not about Latasha Norman, but about college student Emily Sander. It is an AP WIRE STORY! AND this story was featured on MSNBC

EL DORADO, Kan. - A body found in Kansas appears to be that of a missing college student who led a secret life as an Internet porn star, police said Thursday.SOURCE

All lives are sacred, but this is just a stark example of the double standard. Two women. Both college students. Both of their bodies recovered. One gets the front page on MSNBC.COM an a segment on MSNBC and the other.... I'm still looking for an AP story on Latasha. Here it is. Oh well.

OH the hypocrisy of NBC doing a series on African American Women: Where They Stand while their website and cable network basically ignore them.

Comments

[clnmike]

My prayers for Latasha Norman's family. I can not imagine suffering with someone you love being missing to not knowing if they are alive to finally death.
And the sad part is she will remain unknown even now after her deaths discovery. People will move on like it is just another day.

It's funny that today at the hospital that I am doing clinicals at that a fellow student reveals to me how when she was in the army she came up missing for 2 days. The "man" she was married to after finding out she wanted a divorce from the physical abuse that passed it's self off as love, decided to kidnap beat her senseless lock her in a car. Soak the car in gasoline, and for the grace of God not light it. She woke up in the car and drove her self to the police station. This "man" was given 20 years but only served 6.

While she is telling me the story you can see the fear in her eyes, that after a new marriage a soon to be new career, a new house, looking foward to a new family, she tells me that she is still worried that he may come looking for her.
It is a cold reality to realize that the beautiful. intelligent woman you talking to right in front of you could just as easily not exist in your world. Would have never known her name what she looked like where she is from ect, ect. And what made me uncomfortable is that I can recall off the top of my head at least 5 women who were abused by some one who said they loved them.
(I think I will blog about that)

Violence against black women in this country is a form of terrorism. I think it fits the defintion.

This country will turn upside down over a run away bride in Georgia and place it all over the news. A young white woman will come up missing in another country, (Aruba), and the Goverment will step in and protest, never mind the fact that they are ready to go on trial and convict some one with no body.

You are very much right this is a cold world to black women.

[rikyrah]

May Latasha Norman rest in peace. Once again, one of our positive people snuffed out by a negative one. My heart goes out to her family, and at least he's been arrested.

Those protection orders aren't worth the paper it's written on, sadly for any woman in that situation.

[La ~ msviswan]

I have come to the cold and hard conclusion that the NBC's and the ABC's do NOT care about black people, much less black women. Apart from racism and black de-humanization, they just don't relate to us and don't care to.

Therefore, I don't get shocked anymore when they don't give our precious women and children air time. I flat out think we also need our own prevailing media and news coverage networks to cater to "our" issues as black people. It's sad it has come to this. If we continue rely on the bias "majority's" network, they will continue to give us the same low percentile coverage to suit our small percentile existence in American society as they see fit.

No offence to anyone (I'm not talking about anyone on this blog or you Gem - you're my girl), but it seems in general some people in the black blogsphere feel safe just focusing on the bias news coverage aspect of this (not talking about this well needed post). In my opinion, the underlining problem is not JUST the bias news coverage (which does still play a role in it), but the bigger and hurtful picture is that "our" black males are most likely doing these very crimes to these very black women.

Believe me, I'm to the point where I'm just grateful some black men are even willing to admit the unfairness against black women in general. Yet, I think more black males on the blogsphere need to be more willing to tackle the more dangerous initial "cause of the missing" instead of harping about the bias news coverages.

Furthermore, I do NOT hate black men. I just want more honesty, more black unity and more protection for black women and black children. That's all.

Peace

[Attorneymom]

Who can reason with an angry man??? How do you reach someone who does not want to be reached?? There lies the frustration.

I wish there were more available resources for anger management and counseling. So many need it, but refuse to seek it or do not know where to go to seek it.

[KittyHummerKitty2]

This kind of stuff makes me SO mad!!! A white whore gets more attention than a decent black woman. *SMH*

[Woman in Transition]

La ~ msviswan said...
"I have come to the cold and hard conclusion that the NBC's and the ABC's do NOT care about black people, much less black women. Apart from racism and black de-humanization, they just don't relate to us and don't care to.

Therefore, I don't get shocked anymore when they don't give our precious women and children air time."

So true. I'd like to see TVOne (Cathy Hughes) develop a news program that catered to our community (much like BET used to do (when it was a decent television station)). MSM will never be able to do that for us. I'm so surprised that the NABJ has not seriously raised these concerns at their yearly conference. Bloggers can't be the only ones who see the failure in the media.

[Mes Deux Cents]

I didn't post about Latasha Norman because I'm still recovering from the Nailah Franklin case.

This is so sad.

I think the so-called mainstream (but not mainstream to me) media is starting to look for stories in the black blogisphere. So we all are making an impact and I think over time we will see more coverage of stories of importance to us.

[Teacher (a.k.a Professor I've]

I want to point out that the one news outlet that is MSM, but gave this case serious airtime, was CNN's Headline News "The Nancy Grace Show." Even though it brought this very tragic case to the attention of a mass audience, this coverage comes at a high price.

Although the show is often shrill and can be a little too quick to report the negative stuff done Black folk, the show did give substantial coverage to the case and interviewed her Latasha Norman's dad regarding the news that her body was found.

Again, I think it's interesting because that show will highlight Black women as victims of crime, and at the same time, they often castigate Black mothers (who are often in the throes of addiction or mental illness) for child abuse and neglect. So, in similar ways that outlets like BET 'serve' and dis-'serve' Black audiences, "The Nancy Grace Show" does similar things to demonize Black women and present them as victims of crime.