Two minutes into this he talks about the differences between white missing girls, and black missing girls. And then he goes on to discuss the differences in being 15 years old when you are black and 15 years old when you are white.
So, yeah, it's Elizabeth Smart, or little Madeleine. Next time it's someone else.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
thanks to adrianne we get to see dave chappelle talk about missing girls, and media coverage
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Vad vågat av honom. Att skämta om något så oerhört allvarligt (och för att inte tala om den oerhörda orättvisan).
Såg du Exhonorated (om det nu är så det stavas) i San Francisco? Jag såg den för några år sedan. Pjäsen är baserad på verkliga berättelser om några dödsdömda fångar som satt i dödscellen i många år och att det senare visade sig att de var oskyldiga. Väldigt bra! Tog bland annat upp hur en svart blev dömd till döden utan några som helst bevis, bara att någon pekat ut honom...
Alltså jag gillar Dave Chappelle jättemycket. Han har mycket att säga. Filmen Dave Chappelles Block Party som kom förra våren är fantastiskt bra.
Jag missade pjäsen, men hörde talas om den. Santa Clara University där jag undervisar har projekt på sin Law School där de jobbar för frigivning av oskyldigt dömda. Mind boggling att det sker...
Dave Chappelle should have actually READ about the Elizabeth Smart case before he made comic fodder about it. She was 14, not 15, when she was kidnapped. She was held captive for NINE months, not six. She was not held captive in a house. Her kidnappers were homeless transients. She was held 3 1/2 miles from her home, not 8, in the hills behind her home, and she WAS tied to a tree with a WIRE CABLE. You can't chew through a wire cable. And yes she was watched constantly by her kidnappers. She also was not in Utah for the entire nine months. Her kidnappers took her to California in October 2002, 4 months after they kidnapped her, and stayed there till late February 2003, then went to Nevada before returning to Utah in March 2003.
Also, I'm assuming that Chapelle has never heard of Stockholm Syndrome or a psychological leash. Being tied to a tree and repeatedly raped and abused will do that to you. It's happened to other people in hostage situations and that's what happened to Elizabeth Smart. Her kidnappers kidnapped her in order to sexually assault her and keep her as a "wife". They tied her up, neglected her and abused her sexually, physically, verbally, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. I guess Chapelle doesn't understand what happens to a kid mentally, emotionally, and psychologically, when she is raped and abused, especially if she's raped and abused repeatedly. Erica Pratt, on the other hand, was not harmed at all. Her kidnappers simply wanted money(ransom).She was just tied up with duct tape and left alone(I read that it took her 24 hours to escape). Elizabeth was never left alone, save for one time in California in February 2003, but by that time she'd obviously been so terrorized and abused that she no longer had the will or the guts to escape. So no one should ever compare Elizabeth's situation with Erica's because their situations were different. People who kidnap kids for ransom are only interested in the money. I don't have to explain people kidnapping kids for sexual assault because that's self-explanatory.
bull crap... the news will always focus over a white girl over a black one... she was never watched constantly, and was not moved to California... check your facts...
The simple fact is, the news, Americans in general don't care if it's an African-American girl being held vs. a white girl (who ends up in People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people... ridiculous....
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