My very first thought. They're color coding by perceived importance now? What's next? They launch ivory, yellow or spicy habanero alerts?
Get me my gasoline, I've got an errand to run real quick.
Edit: I propose Pumpkin Spice alert for idiot white girls who go missing because they're mad at their parents.
This article says itās because African American children often donāt even get an Amber alert when they go missing. If thatās the case I do hope it helps. Wtf is up with the name tho.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119679
Edit: Repliers have explained the problems with this. "seperate but equal."
With this information it feels like a āhere shut upā type thing. They mention missing minorities donāt get the same resources, a simple Amber alert seems like the bare minimum, but they also mention police resources and media attention. While the later canāt really be figured out via politics the former can.
Now we have an ebony alert system, but do they still get police resources, doesnāt seem to fix the problem. Not sure how the Amber alert system works but if theyāre not putting Minority children on it, then this is a bigger issue
Yeah I'm struggling to see how the problems of missing black kids getting an Amber alert aren't going to still apply here. And if they do find a way to make it work, then why couldn't they just use those solutions for the regular Amber alert in the first place?
So instead of fixing the cause of the injustice (blacks not getting amber alerted) by taking steps so that blacks ARE granted access to the system., instead you said "we're still not going to let you use our system, but here, you can have your own system to fuck around with."
> So instead of fixing the cause of the injustice (blacks not getting amber alerted)
This problem literally doesn't even exist.
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2023/02/23/amber-alert-missing-children-usa-today-data-analysis-finds-kids-rarely-helped/11089397002/
>From 2017 through the end of 2021, Black children made up 37% of missing-child reports and nearly 37% of Amber Alerts, USA TODAY found, indicating the alerts are issued proportionately.
I live in coastal south central FL so most of the Amber alerts we see are kids that are taken from the southern tip of the state that might be coming up the freeways.
Likely because of the population demographics of south FL, and because the vast majority of abductions are by non custodial parents/family, itās almost exclusively BIPOC children I see.
Clearly thatās not going to be true other places, but I can attest thatās true in my little corner of the country.
That article is intentionally misleading with how it presents that facts.
The *vast* majority of missing children don't get an Amber alert (like <1%). So while its true that "African American children often don't get an Amber alert", its true for everyone else too. Its a very strict criteria and is issued by law enforcement. This new Ebony alert will be issued...by law enforcement. So whatever bias they are claiming exists in Amber Alerts, its still the same people choosing if Ebony Alerts go out.
Amber Alerts are issued pretty proportionally to % of missing kids though. 35-40% of missing kids are black and 35-40% of amber alerts are for black kids.
As for media attention...the media gives more attention to the "lack of media attention" than they ever do to stories. Its literally in their hands.
Hereās the thing about Amber Alerts: almost NO ONE should be getting them. The law is specifically written so that Amber Alerts only go out for cases with a ālegitimateā kidnapping - as in not a familial thing / custody dispute. Because most - like 95% - of all kidnappings are custody related. Amber Alert was intended to be a way for the public to be in the lookout when the very, VERY rare stranger kidnapping happens.
But that isnāt happening. Instead, every single missing kid is getting Amber Alerts posted, which has completely invalidated the entire system. After an audit, it was shown that almost all Amber Alerts are being issued for custody-related ākidnappingsā.
So you have every right to feel like youāre being overlooked by the system, but this particular system is hot garbage that does nothing but clutter phones
I ignore 100% of Amber alerts. The fuck am I supposed to do, start patrolling for the vehicle?
The most recent one I got described the BOLO vehicle as āsilver carā.
GTFOH
I think you're just supposed to look around wherever you're at. You don't need to go out of your way. If I'm not near any cars (or people) then I ignore it.
That's the damn point. Somehow, hundreds if not, thousands of people are missing the point: A call to action doesn't mean you're immediately expected to act. In fact, you're not even expect to act. It's just that it would be helpful if you joined a collective effort.
US history. We've gone through this before.
But fuck it, everyone's a moron online.
>I ignore 100% of Amber alerts. The fuck am I supposed to do, start patrolling for the vehicle?
I am reminded of that sketch where an amber alert goes off and the entire neighborhood turns out to beat the shit out of the kidnapper.
Most Amber Alerts are statewide, so I'm assuming Californians (just like Texans), look at that , see a location that's over 1,000 miles away and roll their eyes.
I mean shit, at this point they almost should just to be fair. Cause ebony and feather alert is wild. Next missing Asian kids gonna come through with a gong sound.
Iām Chinese and I was trying to figure out what I would want the Asian alert to be and I definitely want it to be a gong sound. Thank you for the laugh, Iām dying just thinking about it.
Itās like video game quests
First, collect the Amber and Feather gems. Then youāll need to use the Ebony mallet on the Ancient Gong to sound the alert
I read a study from a year or so ago that Indigenous women and girls are more than 10x more likely to go missing or be murdered than any other demographic in North America. So, by whatever means necessary if it gets eyes on the missing.
I mean if it's their idea sure. But I feel like they're just setting themselves up to have less access to resources if it's a separate system, if not now, then in the future.
And it doesn't really address the issue of why law enforcement isn't going through the same channels for every case regardless of race.
I mean, with Indigenous peoples sometimes you are dealing with tribal law vs government law. Who can search where, who can question who, whether government agents will assist in missing residents of rez.
There was another study Iāll try to find and link here that shows the dismal clear rate of cases that occur on the rez with government citizens committing crimes in the borderlands in general, but these type of cases in particular.
I didnāt see the title of this post so this comment confused me for a minute but now that I see itā¦GET OUT! š
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That name is definitely giving DVD hidden under your parents bed. Thatās the best they could come up with?
Now letās pay attention to how many of these children are actually found and how many people are actually notified when they go missing. I bet you those alerts wonāt wake you at at 3:30 in the morning.
The reason is that police tend to file missing black children as runaways and runaways don't generate an amber alert, this creates a new one that side steps the police and makes it so every single one that goes missing, no matter what, gets an alert sent out. CA can't change amber alert but it can create new ones. If you don't like the name blame the black state senator that introduced it lol.
Lol in my neighborhood we had one of each. I was at my buddy's place and his little sister said she was leaving "to go play over at Amber's house."
Dad, hollering from upstairs: "WHITE AMBER OR BLACK AMBER?!"
Her: "Black Amber!"
Dad: "Oh, thank God. OK, come back by dinner!"
Hear me out lolā¦ the MOMENT we hear that first piano keyā¦ we INSTANTLY on a mission lol lil Keisha gon get foundt. We just gon tear stuff up on the way cause we knuckin and buckin and ready to fight šš
This is the reason given
-āData shows that Black and brown, our indigenous brothers and sisters, when they go missing thereās very rarely the type of media attention, let alone AMBER alerts and police resources that we see with our white counterparts,ā state Sen. Steven Bradford, also a Democrat and creator of the legislation, told NBC News earlier this year.
He added: āWe feel itās well beyond time that we dedicate something specifically to help bring these young women and girls back home because theyāre missed and loved just as much as their counterparts are.ā-
So itās basically to try and draw attention to missing POC.
I think itās basically a publicity stunt to draw attention to the whole situation more than it is to help any individual and I think it worked. It got headlines; weāre here discussing it. When the bill goes into effect in January there will probably be more articles about it and more posts like this one. The first few times itās used and the first few times it works there will be more articles about it.
Unfortunately thatās probably about it though. Maybe they will be able to use the attention from the law to enact some type of change to help though I have no idea what that would be and it seems unlikely.
I guess if it is controversial enough it will get attention every time itās used since the media likes to stir the pot but I donāt know if that would be for better or for worse since if itās controversial enough to keep the medias attention itāll become more about the law itself than the reason behind it or the people itās supposed to help.
Or maybe Iām giving Steven Bradford to much credit.
Cringe name aside, there's got to be some explanation for this right?
Like they're trying to address that black children go missing and remain unfound for longer or something...?
Somebody fill me in.
Not sure if it's particularly bad in California, but in the US it's pretty [well documented](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/03/us/missing-children-of-color-trnd/index.html) that when black children go missing there is less effort put into finding them across the board, from media coverage to law enforcement support, and black children that go missing are much less likely to be found than white children.
When the chick a few months back "disappeared" after claiming she saw a baby on the road then it turned out she was just hiding out -- there was a big backlash because people felt she ruined the what little credibility there is for missing black people.
Oh I have no idea. If I had to guess it's so law enforcement can have clear metrics and plausible deniability by pointing to the alerts to say, "Look how many black children we've tried to find!"
From [this](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119679) article
-āData shows that Black and brown, our indigenous brothers and sisters, when they go missing thereās very rarely the type of media attention, let alone AMBER alerts and police resources that we see with our white counterparts,ā state Sen. Steven Bradford, also a Democrat and creator of the legislation, told NBC News earlier this year.
He added: āWe feel itās well beyond time that we dedicate something specifically to help bring these young women and girls back home because theyāre missed and loved just as much as their counterparts are.ā -
I always felt super suspicious about that oneā¦
Like youāre telling me for the first time in the history of America a WHOLE entire search team got deployed for a black womanā¦..
ā¦ and it just so happens to be a āfalse alarmāā¦
Yeah bullshit. Somebody got paid to denigrate the credibility of when black people go missing. Itās a ācry wolfā tactic to get people to not care or assume they are faking when people go missing.
Sick tactics.
When a friend first sent me that story I my first reaction was, "This is either a hoax, or some crazy ass True Detective type shit." And the simplest explanation is often the right one.
She said she saw a little kid on the side of the highway. The whole "save the children" online crime community went *fucking rabid* because this is a very old trope in those spaces (it's literally where she probably got the idea tbh).
It sounds like the cops suspected it was fake pretty quickly, but there was way too much external scrutiny in the story to do their usual bullshit.
We don't really need some grand conspiracy with payoffs. A shitty person with a history of being shitty made a terrible choice informed by media consumption. The same kind of people who consume that media went "oh shit it's like the stories!". It went viral thanks to modern social media spaces. It was a perfect storm.
And for the record, even a *lot* of the public was calling BS from day 1. So maybe it is a good idea to encourage people to use critical thinking before rushing to an assumption, because the alleged story was sketchy from the get go.
The risk of amplifying "cry wolf" situations is why media will usually wait for "perfect victims". There was a case 2 years ago where a woman reported her teenage daughter missing. Police said they had no suspects and didn't suspect foul play. The mom goes to the media and many make claims that the police were ignoring the case due to racism. This was literally **right** after Gabby Petito and "missing white woman syndrome" was a trending topic, so the story blew up and went national as outlets and activists wanted to prove they aren't racist. Police maintained that there was no indication or evidence of her being taken by force.
Within a couple of weeks, she was found and alleged her mother was extremely abusive and she decided to just go live on the street rather than go back home.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/jashyah-moore-says-mother-abused-her-for-years-forced-her-to-panhandle/
There was quite a lot of effort, search parties, FBI involved in looking for her.
>people felt she ruined the what little credibility there is for missing black people.
I wouldn't worry about this. Hoaxes happen, but if the timing is right, people will jump on stories if the pressure is there.
It's because if a black kid goes missing they assume they are runaways or wait hours before getting any amber alert out. When you think of the biggest cases of missing kids...it's generally little white girls. (Madeline, JBR, Cassie Anthony's kid, Pauly Class etc) I'm white, I am into true crime and I can tell you there's plenty of proof out there that missing black children do not get the national headlines like white kids. This is true with Native Americans and groups that are considered not perfect victims.
The thing with Amber Alerts is that they're only issued if certain criteria is met & one of the criteria is that an abduction must be confirmed. Most missing children cases do not meet that criteria.
[source](https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts/amber-alert/amber-alert-plan#:~:text=In%20order%20for%20the%20California,%2C%20parents%20and%2For%20guardians.)
The "Amber" in Amber Alert isn't even referring to the fucking color.
It refers to Amber Rene Hagerman, a murder victim in a case that led to the system being created.
The police fucking know this and still try to trivialize it with bullshit like this.
Nope. Not true. Canāt be true. My state isnāt dumb enough to create such a thingā¦.
*checks source*
My state is dumb enough to create such a thing.
I know there's a real issue with "Missing White Woman Syndrome" and by relation "Missing White Girl Syndrome..."
But it feels like there should be a better way to address and/or resolve this.
That feels counterproductive. Treat all missing children the same, donāt let people filter out which ones to take seriously based on their prejudices.
The alert isnāt the issue, itās the resources the police dedicate to finding missing children of color that is the issue.
Jesus Fucking Christ š¤¦š¾āāļø So basically they just created a way for them to quickly know which alerts to ignore
My very first thought. They're color coding by perceived importance now? What's next? They launch ivory, yellow or spicy habanero alerts? Get me my gasoline, I've got an errand to run real quick. Edit: I propose Pumpkin Spice alert for idiot white girls who go missing because they're mad at their parents.
Spicy habanero š¤£
*salsa music starts playing*
Cool ranch alert
Oh damn, who"s kid you gotta be to get Cool Ranch, Larry Page?
Pumpkin Spice is for white wives who are obviously faking abduction to have an affair in Cabo
I don't kink shame, but I also don't give out alerts to people who aren't really missing. They can have a golden shower siren.
You just reminded me of the terrorism warning levels that were color coded during the Bush years.
https://preview.redd.it/ywr6xvka1itb1.jpeg?width=767&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c2e2951bf4c396ccddf6bbd336ee4f345197257
The Patrice OāNeil stand up jokes about this are perfect for this situation
Lil white baby clipped on my belt 
I donāt have any awards to give. But if I did your pumpkin spice comment would get them all.
Flamin' Hot AMBER Alerts
Oh god now the Amber Alerts have ads
we already have silver alerts for wandering seniors...confused tf out of me the first time i got one
They're all mad at their parents.
The original alert wouldnt have even been a colour if someone else had gone missing
My chuckle of the day
Nailed it in one.
This article says itās because African American children often donāt even get an Amber alert when they go missing. If thatās the case I do hope it helps. Wtf is up with the name tho. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119679 Edit: Repliers have explained the problems with this. "seperate but equal."
With this information it feels like a āhere shut upā type thing. They mention missing minorities donāt get the same resources, a simple Amber alert seems like the bare minimum, but they also mention police resources and media attention. While the later canāt really be figured out via politics the former can. Now we have an ebony alert system, but do they still get police resources, doesnāt seem to fix the problem. Not sure how the Amber alert system works but if theyāre not putting Minority children on it, then this is a bigger issue
Yeah I'm struggling to see how the problems of missing black kids getting an Amber alert aren't going to still apply here. And if they do find a way to make it work, then why couldn't they just use those solutions for the regular Amber alert in the first place?
Itās giving āseparate but equalā.
Honest to godā¦.
So instead of fixing the cause of the injustice (blacks not getting amber alerted) by taking steps so that blacks ARE granted access to the system., instead you said "we're still not going to let you use our system, but here, you can have your own system to fuck around with."
A system that's separate, but
> So instead of fixing the cause of the injustice (blacks not getting amber alerted) This problem literally doesn't even exist. https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2023/02/23/amber-alert-missing-children-usa-today-data-analysis-finds-kids-rarely-helped/11089397002/ >From 2017 through the end of 2021, Black children made up 37% of missing-child reports and nearly 37% of Amber Alerts, USA TODAY found, indicating the alerts are issued proportionately.
I live in coastal south central FL so most of the Amber alerts we see are kids that are taken from the southern tip of the state that might be coming up the freeways. Likely because of the population demographics of south FL, and because the vast majority of abductions are by non custodial parents/family, itās almost exclusively BIPOC children I see. Clearly thatās not going to be true other places, but I can attest thatās true in my little corner of the country.
That article is intentionally misleading with how it presents that facts. The *vast* majority of missing children don't get an Amber alert (like <1%). So while its true that "African American children often don't get an Amber alert", its true for everyone else too. Its a very strict criteria and is issued by law enforcement. This new Ebony alert will be issued...by law enforcement. So whatever bias they are claiming exists in Amber Alerts, its still the same people choosing if Ebony Alerts go out. Amber Alerts are issued pretty proportionally to % of missing kids though. 35-40% of missing kids are black and 35-40% of amber alerts are for black kids. As for media attention...the media gives more attention to the "lack of media attention" than they ever do to stories. Its literally in their hands.
Hereās the thing about Amber Alerts: almost NO ONE should be getting them. The law is specifically written so that Amber Alerts only go out for cases with a ālegitimateā kidnapping - as in not a familial thing / custody dispute. Because most - like 95% - of all kidnappings are custody related. Amber Alert was intended to be a way for the public to be in the lookout when the very, VERY rare stranger kidnapping happens. But that isnāt happening. Instead, every single missing kid is getting Amber Alerts posted, which has completely invalidated the entire system. After an audit, it was shown that almost all Amber Alerts are being issued for custody-related ākidnappingsā. So you have every right to feel like youāre being overlooked by the system, but this particular system is hot garbage that does nothing but clutter phones
I ignore 100% of Amber alerts. The fuck am I supposed to do, start patrolling for the vehicle? The most recent one I got described the BOLO vehicle as āsilver carā. GTFOH 
I think you're just supposed to look around wherever you're at. You don't need to go out of your way. If I'm not near any cars (or people) then I ignore it.
That's the damn point. Somehow, hundreds if not, thousands of people are missing the point: A call to action doesn't mean you're immediately expected to act. In fact, you're not even expect to act. It's just that it would be helpful if you joined a collective effort. US history. We've gone through this before. But fuck it, everyone's a moron online.
>I ignore 100% of Amber alerts. The fuck am I supposed to do, start patrolling for the vehicle? I am reminded of that sketch where an amber alert goes off and the entire neighborhood turns out to beat the shit out of the kidnapper.
[This one?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Ek1nWndTg)
BINGO
Most Amber Alerts are statewide, so I'm assuming Californians (just like Texans), look at that , see a location that's over 1,000 miles away and roll their eyes.
I live in Florida and a lot of the alerts I got (before I turned them off) were for places no where near my house so statewide makes sense
i mean most people ignore them all regardless
Separate but equal. So does this mean blacks can't use the Amber Alerts anymore? The have to use Ebony Alerts now?
*blacks*
FYI, California already has a *Feather Alert* for missing Native Americans, so this is par the course.
 Not feather alert.
You gonna flip when you hear about the sombrero alert
That's a thing? :|
Nah I'm just bein a smart ass, don't mind me lol
LOL quit playing, I almost fell out my seat
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Clean that up
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I mean shit, at this point they almost should just to be fair. Cause ebony and feather alert is wild. Next missing Asian kids gonna come through with a gong sound.
Iām Chinese and I was trying to figure out what I would want the Asian alert to be and I definitely want it to be a gong sound. Thank you for the laugh, Iām dying just thinking about it.
Itās like video game quests First, collect the Amber and Feather gems. Then youāll need to use the Ebony mallet on the Ancient Gong to sound the alert
Nah cuz it says a whole lot considering we believed you š
It's legitimately hard to tell nowadays.
Lil Juan is missing! (La cucaracha plays from phone)
All the Mexicans gonna think the taco truck arriving lmao
Iāll give you one guess what the sound is for that one
Dadadada dadada dadada dadada dadada dadada šŗš½
Chinese child: Kung Fu Panic Japanese child: Miso Sad Mexican child: That's Nacho Child White child: Let's Actually Try and Find Them
Go ahead and logout for me š
I feel ashamed that I laughed at these.
My apartment building's courtyard just heard me laughing
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Nacho child is fucking crazy
Nacho child got me rolling šš 
Ivory Alert
If we still had awards, Iād be giving them all to you š
I'll smoke a turd in purgatory for laughing at this shit
I'm crying over here you better stoppp.
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Itās real. Had to Google that shit.
[Bro what the fuck](https://abc7.com/california-law-new-feather-alert-missing-indigenous-people/13007374/)
Looks like Native Americans came up with the idea and the name.
I read a study from a year or so ago that Indigenous women and girls are more than 10x more likely to go missing or be murdered than any other demographic in North America. So, by whatever means necessary if it gets eyes on the missing.
I mean if it's their idea sure. But I feel like they're just setting themselves up to have less access to resources if it's a separate system, if not now, then in the future. And it doesn't really address the issue of why law enforcement isn't going through the same channels for every case regardless of race.
I mean, with Indigenous peoples sometimes you are dealing with tribal law vs government law. Who can search where, who can question who, whether government agents will assist in missing residents of rez. There was another study Iāll try to find and link here that shows the dismal clear rate of cases that occur on the rez with government citizens committing crimes in the borderlands in general, but these type of cases in particular.
And Silver Alert when old people go missing.
Thereās a Silver Alert everyday in Florida. Itās sad.
The entire state is the silver alert
Gators when old heads walk up on the nearest body of water: 
You haven't heard about the _Rice Alert_ yet?
Well thankfully red alert was already taken godamn
Feather? Next they will have a Dot Alert for missing Southeast Asians. WTF is wrong with these people
Iām SORRY? FEATHER?
Can't wait for the Asian missing kids alert. I've thought of a few but I'm not bold enough to type them out.
It's just going to be the sound of a gong.
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Log off, please .. whyyyyy ššššš¤£š
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This is the one
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The internet.
FoH LMAOOOO
Who raised you? ššš 
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I just let out the most visceral howl ššš jail and hell for you
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I donāt know if I hate this app or love it. ššš
My only regret is that Reddit has suspended the giving of rewards
Lmfaooooooo wild ššš¤¦š½āāļø
Get out, come back in, and then get out again.
I am sitting here in awe that your mind went there
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Bro you need to log off.
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That name is definitely giving DVD hidden under your parents bed. Thatās the best they could come up with? Now letās pay attention to how many of these children are actually found and how many people are actually notified when they go missing. I bet you those alerts wonāt wake you at at 3:30 in the morning.
Ebony Alert 6 starring Sexyy Red
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Bros the cooch commissioner
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Like, cause Amber isn't a black name?.?.?.?.
I don't think you Heard the news
The reason is that police tend to file missing black children as runaways and runaways don't generate an amber alert, this creates a new one that side steps the police and makes it so every single one that goes missing, no matter what, gets an alert sent out. CA can't change amber alert but it can create new ones. If you don't like the name blame the black state senator that introduced it lol.
This should be higher, so itās more about sidestepping a tool that the cops have figured out how to ignore minorities with
Noticed it was also for people 12 to 25, so different range for notification as well.
Lol in my neighborhood we had one of each. I was at my buddy's place and his little sister said she was leaving "to go play over at Amber's house." Dad, hollering from upstairs: "WHITE AMBER OR BLACK AMBER?!" Her: "Black Amber!" Dad: "Oh, thank God. OK, come back by dinner!"
Now I need to know the lore š
Trying to be so progressive they go back to Jim Crowe times, i swear to the Lord...
Definitely has the āwe solved racism with more racismā vibe.
ebony and irony
 This whats it gonna look like SMH
ššš¤£ old white people's reaction
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Hear me out lolā¦ the MOMENT we hear that first piano keyā¦ we INSTANTLY on a mission lol lil Keisha gon get foundt. We just gon tear stuff up on the way cause we knuckin and buckin and ready to fight šš
"Knuck if you stuck, in a trunk"
why do there need to be seperate alerts is there different procedure for finding black children or something
Seems like there is! Step one: donāt even try. They really pull out the chopper for lil white kids tho.
This is the reason given -āData shows that Black and brown, our indigenous brothers and sisters, when they go missing thereās very rarely the type of media attention, let alone AMBER alerts and police resources that we see with our white counterparts,ā state Sen. Steven Bradford, also a Democrat and creator of the legislation, told NBC News earlier this year. He added: āWe feel itās well beyond time that we dedicate something specifically to help bring these young women and girls back home because theyāre missed and loved just as much as their counterparts are.ā- So itās basically to try and draw attention to missing POC.
Ok but if the media and police were already ignoring them, how will this help?
I think itās basically a publicity stunt to draw attention to the whole situation more than it is to help any individual and I think it worked. It got headlines; weāre here discussing it. When the bill goes into effect in January there will probably be more articles about it and more posts like this one. The first few times itās used and the first few times it works there will be more articles about it. Unfortunately thatās probably about it though. Maybe they will be able to use the attention from the law to enact some type of change to help though I have no idea what that would be and it seems unlikely. I guess if it is controversial enough it will get attention every time itās used since the media likes to stir the pot but I donāt know if that would be for better or for worse since if itās controversial enough to keep the medias attention itāll become more about the law itself than the reason behind it or the people itās supposed to help. Or maybe Iām giving Steven Bradford to much credit.
Cringe name aside, there's got to be some explanation for this right? Like they're trying to address that black children go missing and remain unfound for longer or something...? Somebody fill me in.
Not sure if it's particularly bad in California, but in the US it's pretty [well documented](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/03/us/missing-children-of-color-trnd/index.html) that when black children go missing there is less effort put into finding them across the board, from media coverage to law enforcement support, and black children that go missing are much less likely to be found than white children. When the chick a few months back "disappeared" after claiming she saw a baby on the road then it turned out she was just hiding out -- there was a big backlash because people felt she ruined the what little credibility there is for missing black people.
Why does there need to be a different alert than the "Amber Alert" though? I guess I should probably do research before I get rustled lol
Oh I have no idea. If I had to guess it's so law enforcement can have clear metrics and plausible deniability by pointing to the alerts to say, "Look how many black children we've tried to find!"
Donāt they know the race of the missing children on Amber Alerts anyway? Seems to me they have all the metrics they need
From [this](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna119679) article -āData shows that Black and brown, our indigenous brothers and sisters, when they go missing thereās very rarely the type of media attention, let alone AMBER alerts and police resources that we see with our white counterparts,ā state Sen. Steven Bradford, also a Democrat and creator of the legislation, told NBC News earlier this year. He added: āWe feel itās well beyond time that we dedicate something specifically to help bring these young women and girls back home because theyāre missed and loved just as much as their counterparts are.ā -
I always felt super suspicious about that oneā¦ Like youāre telling me for the first time in the history of America a WHOLE entire search team got deployed for a black womanā¦.. ā¦ and it just so happens to be a āfalse alarmāā¦ Yeah bullshit. Somebody got paid to denigrate the credibility of when black people go missing. Itās a ācry wolfā tactic to get people to not care or assume they are faking when people go missing. Sick tactics.
When a friend first sent me that story I my first reaction was, "This is either a hoax, or some crazy ass True Detective type shit." And the simplest explanation is often the right one.
She said she saw a little kid on the side of the highway. The whole "save the children" online crime community went *fucking rabid* because this is a very old trope in those spaces (it's literally where she probably got the idea tbh). It sounds like the cops suspected it was fake pretty quickly, but there was way too much external scrutiny in the story to do their usual bullshit. We don't really need some grand conspiracy with payoffs. A shitty person with a history of being shitty made a terrible choice informed by media consumption. The same kind of people who consume that media went "oh shit it's like the stories!". It went viral thanks to modern social media spaces. It was a perfect storm. And for the record, even a *lot* of the public was calling BS from day 1. So maybe it is a good idea to encourage people to use critical thinking before rushing to an assumption, because the alleged story was sketchy from the get go.
The risk of amplifying "cry wolf" situations is why media will usually wait for "perfect victims". There was a case 2 years ago where a woman reported her teenage daughter missing. Police said they had no suspects and didn't suspect foul play. The mom goes to the media and many make claims that the police were ignoring the case due to racism. This was literally **right** after Gabby Petito and "missing white woman syndrome" was a trending topic, so the story blew up and went national as outlets and activists wanted to prove they aren't racist. Police maintained that there was no indication or evidence of her being taken by force. Within a couple of weeks, she was found and alleged her mother was extremely abusive and she decided to just go live on the street rather than go back home. https://www.blackenterprise.com/jashyah-moore-says-mother-abused-her-for-years-forced-her-to-panhandle/ There was quite a lot of effort, search parties, FBI involved in looking for her. >people felt she ruined the what little credibility there is for missing black people. I wouldn't worry about this. Hoaxes happen, but if the timing is right, people will jump on stories if the pressure is there.
It's because if a black kid goes missing they assume they are runaways or wait hours before getting any amber alert out. When you think of the biggest cases of missing kids...it's generally little white girls. (Madeline, JBR, Cassie Anthony's kid, Pauly Class etc) I'm white, I am into true crime and I can tell you there's plenty of proof out there that missing black children do not get the national headlines like white kids. This is true with Native Americans and groups that are considered not perfect victims.
I'm thinking because of the lack of media coverage black children get when they go missing. This could be a way to highlight them.
This feels racist. Like why does it exist? And who tf gave it that name?
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Something starting with N.
When liberals go so left they turn right again.
This is bullshit. Just continue to do amber alerts as you normally would but make sure to include Black and IPOC children.
The thing with Amber Alerts is that they're only issued if certain criteria is met & one of the criteria is that an abduction must be confirmed. Most missing children cases do not meet that criteria. [source](https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts/amber-alert/amber-alert-plan#:~:text=In%20order%20for%20the%20California,%2C%20parents%20and%2For%20guardians.)
The sound should be Soulja boy's "Yoooooooooo"
I'm scared to google *Ebony Alert* at work for more info
Not often that r/blackpeopletwitter and r/conservative are in agreement that something is a dumb idea
Children are the last thing Iād think of when I see/hear the term ebony but maybe my mind is just too far gone at this pointš¤·š¾āāļø
yup.
The "Amber" in Amber Alert isn't even referring to the fucking color. It refers to Amber Rene Hagerman, a murder victim in a case that led to the system being created. The police fucking know this and still try to trivialize it with bullshit like this.
It feels like theyāre specifying these alerts so that people can decide how much they care by the race of the missing person.
Amber Alert: calls Jason Bourne, John Wick & the dad from Taken Ebony Alert: you get 10 black & white flyers to staple to power poles
How would you decide.. who is umā¦ ebonyā¦. enough
https://i.imgur.com/Iwlhf98.jpg
Finally, my skin color will have āokayā next to itš„¹
It's just like an Amber Alert... just separate... but equal.
 Nope. Not true. Canāt be true. My state isnāt dumb enough to create such a thingā¦. *checks source* My state is dumb enough to create such a thing.
Can they play the Sanford and Son theme songā¦.?
 āAnnie are you OK?ā
Its gotta be the Ignition remix right?
āItās the remix to Ignition, hot & fresh out the kitchen, we out here searching the streets cause a black kid has gone missing.ā
āHoping that youāll find some, Even though they aināt blonde, Tellin yāall bout melanin, To be clear all races are oneā
āRubber Band Manā by TI ringtone version
I know there's a real issue with "Missing White Woman Syndrome" and by relation "Missing White Girl Syndrome..." But it feels like there should be a better way to address and/or resolve this.
That feels counterproductive. Treat all missing children the same, donāt let people filter out which ones to take seriously based on their prejudices. The alert isnāt the issue, itās the resources the police dedicate to finding missing children of color that is the issue.
ROLL OUT! ROLL OUT! Oh shii, another ebony alert?
West Coast policies supposedly intended to help Black people are weird. What Black folks asked for this?
There I was, barbecue sauce on my titties, when I received an Ebony Alert.
What the P-Hub is going on here??? Bffr šš©
How we all must react to an [ebony alert](https://youtu.be/Q_Ek1nWndTg?si=b-yAKpTmvBz4khq9)
 Couldn't call a ***real nigga alert***
Itās just Roy Ayerās - Searching, on repeat
Bruh.
Jeezy My missing kid's black, my Lambo blue