Do you know how we have Amber Alerts for missing kids? Well, in California, that just wasn't good enough.
Black people need their own missing kids alerts.
Yes, California is going to be putting out "Ebony Alerts" specifically for minority kids, meaning you can safely ignore the Amber Alerts because it's just some white kid missing.
Here's how it will work:
The law, which will go into effect on Jan. 1, will allow the California Highway Patrol to activate the alert upon request from local law enforcement when a Black youth goes missing in the area. The Ebony Alert will utilize electronic highway signs and encourage use of radio, TV, social media and other systems to spread information about the missing persons' alert. The Ebony Alert will be used for missing Black people aged 12 to 25.
Amber Alerts will still happen, and black kids will still be included. But now black kids get this extra layer where they will be more visible on roadways, phones, and in the news, which purposely takes attention away from those white, Asian, and Hispanic kids.
Now that there's an Ebony Alert, people will know when it's REALLY urgent.
Call me crazy, racist, or whatever but I think we should worry about missing kids regardless of their race.
The wokies say this is necessary because missing black kids are often ignored and you're a racist for not #DoingBetter. But there's a reason that black kids often get overlooked by the Amber Alert system:
In order for authorities in California to issue an Amber Alert, the victim must be under 17 — or have a proven disability, — there must be reason to believe they're in danger, and the alerts cannot be used for custodial disputes or runaway cases. Part of the problem is that missing Black children are usually classified as runaways and, as a result, don't get an AMBER alert, according to the foundation.
Ah, so buried deep in the article we have this fascinating little tidbit.
Amber Alerts focus on priority situations where a child has been abducted and there is evidence that clear danger is present to the child if immediate action is not taken to stop the perpetrator (meaning the criminal is not just a jilted divorced parent who tried to take the child, or the kid ran away to a relative's house, etc.). This allows the wider public to focus on essential cases that need lots of eyeballs, so that children like Amber Rene Hagerman (who died in 1996 and inspired the system) don't get murdered.
But black kids "are usually classified as runaways," meaning they are reported missing after they ran away from home, but those kidnapped/in danger do get an Amber Alert. That seems like a key piece of data! Is there maybe something we should look at regarding the home life of black households, perhaps the stability associated with a father present in the home, that may affect the behavior of these kids?
Nah? We're just gonna call data and decades of research - combined with millennia of human civilization and common sense - racist and issue a separate alert system that confuses everyone? Cool.
Let me note one other thing:
Timothy Griffin, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Reno, said he believes the Amber Alert is not effective and, therefore, it may not be worth it to replicate the service. Griffin, who has spent years studying the Amber Alert, said it is rare for a citizen to see the alert and spot the missing child, or for the alert to scare an abductor into returning the child.
While the system has rescued 1,127 children since 1996, it isn't as effective as you would think. It is a good tool that the majority of people understand and it creates awareness about child abduction - both good things. Adding to it in the name of "racial disparity" isn't going to solve the problems causing black kids who don't qualify for an Amber Alert to run away from home. It also isn't going to help other kids. All it does it muddle the whole thing in a giant virtue signal that divides and confuses people.
Here's what the state senator who sponsored the bill had to say:
Something's better than nothing.
What an idiot. Something isn't better than nothing if it not only fails to solve the problem but makes the problem worse.
I think I found the systemic racism. Again.
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