even in this day and age, if you think we're all equal

you are sadly mistaken. i do NOT want to take anything away from all of those who have disappeared or their families.

why is it when a white college student disappears, hundreds including the police look for them 24/7? why is it when a young black man, still a teenager, disappears for EIGHT DAYS the police look for him six or seven days later FOR ONE AND A HALF HOURS IN THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT?

why?

Bowie Student Trapped 8 Days Details Pain, Survival Tactics

By Avis Thomas-Lester Washington Post Staff Writer
As Julian McCormick recalls it, he lay in and out of consciousness for eight days and seven nights, hot, sticky and bloody with not a clue as to what day it was or how he ended up trapped in his overturned car at the bottom of a steep embankment in Prince George's County.
To survive, he ate a fish he caught with his hands and used his high-top sneaker to drink water from the creek, the 18-year-old Bowie State University student told his parents.......