Have you heard about the Ali Gilmore case?
I just saw it on Anderson Cooper 360 last night. Ali Gilmore is 30, pregnant, and vanished without a trace over a month ago. It's unfortunate it took a month for her disappearance to get national media attention. Will Ali Gilmore become a household name like Laci Peterson? If not, can you guess why?
There's a $21,000 reward being offered. My prayers are with Ali's mother and family. At best, I hope they find her alive. At worst, I hope they find out what happened to her.
Gilmore, 30, was four months' pregnant when she was reported missing on Feb. 3 by her supervisor at the Florida Department of Health, where she worked as a statistical analyst. She also worked in the bakery at Publix on Apalachee Parkway. Police think foul play is involved because of the length of time she's been missing.
She and her husband, James Gilmore, were living separately when she was reported missing. Gilmore has been cooperating with police in the investigation. The case also has been discussed on national cable-television shows.
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I had not heard of this case, but looked it up on Google News. I hope they find out what happened. It does not look good that she's been missing a month. I hope this case gets as much attention as Laci & Scott P. The only difference here is of course is Ms. Gilmore's race.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to hear about any woman who is pregnant and then goes missing. I will be thinking about her.
ReplyDeleteReally, Cynthia?? It wasn't that hard to hear about snow-white Lacy Peterson and see her and the husband's faces plastered on every network in the civilized world. That's a very ignorant comment.
ReplyDeleteInteresting story. I find it so wrong that only middle America or upper class whites get the media's attention. It's all the money... Sickening.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid to comment now. I wanted to say something about how terrible I think it is that Ali is missing and that her case isn't as highly profiled as Natalee or Laci. I don't think it's right or fair, and I agree it's because she's black and they weren't (though Laci was of hispanic descent, not a snow-white WASP).
ReplyDeleteLaw & Order had a good episode recently that had a missing black girl. When a white girl went missing, the news got involved. When the white reporter took the white mother to the black mother's home, so they could compare notes, the black mother let the white mother in and then told the reporter off before she let her in (since she had approached the reporter before and been ignored). Basically, she told the reporter not to think for one instant that she didn't know why the reporter was there now, but that she was desperate enough to find her daughter that she would use the opportunity. It was well written and very well done.
Lynn - that reminds me of a show Dr. Phil had a few months ago with a lady on who said her daughter, Daphne, went missing around the same time Chandra Levy did. She basically said she couldn't pay a reporter to give some attention to her daughter's case. Then it dawned on her....Daphne is black.
ReplyDelete"White woman loses car keys--nation holds its breath while she looks in couch cusions"--Geraldo Rivera
ReplyDeleteNot to make light of a serious subject, but that's how it feels sometimes. There's a horrible news bias in this country. But most media outlets run what their predominantly Anglo audience wants to see.
It's just shameful. I'm not a Geraldo fan usually, but boy did he nail that one. Remember the runaway bride? Holy crap, what a dimwit. She got a book deal. Let a black woman pull that stunt on that scale, and she'd experience a different outcome for sure. :(
ReplyDeleteGotta love ya, Lynn. Tell it like it is. ;-)
ReplyDeleteBut most media outlets run what their predominantly Anglo audience wants to see.
ReplyDeleteHi Jamie - see I don't think that's true at all. White people only care to hear about other missing white people? No. That's a misconception. Americans want to hear about Americans. Period.
I think the days where the media reports what the public wants to hear are over. Long gone. Now it's, "We'll report the news stories that we think people want to know---and the way we think they want to know it.
If the disappearances, murders, rapes, butcherings, etc. of non-whites were given impartial and equitable mainstream media attention, they'd become household names just as quickly.
MB, I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteYou know I have to chime in here. I've never heard of her, never seen her picture on the news.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Lynn on the "runaway bride" fiasco. I think it's obvious that a black woman would not have been given so much, hell any attention.
Who's going to do something about this? What can be done? This isn't something that's uncontrollable, after all, it is human beings controlling those news desks. They need to be checked and held accountable.
Good point, Pontif. Alas, it seems that those who are in a position to do something...just aren't. At least not yet.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I haven't heard anything about Ali Gilmore. A household name she is not. I get the disturbing feeling that she would be a household name if she were white.
ReplyDeleteI was just thinking that a few days ago! Household name? As if. What a shame. I continue to keep her mother and family in my prayers.
ReplyDeletei live in tallahassee and am APPALLED by the lack of coverage in this case. i could care less if greta and nancy or geraldo cover it. the LOCAL media won't even keep it in the news - and they're the ones that really matter. but rest assured, things are happening behind the scenes. she will not be forgotten.
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous - I, too, am appalled by the obvious disparate treatment with these cases.
ReplyDeleteI guess the questions that remain are, what can be done? And who can do something about it?
Rewa in Tallahassee, Florida,. Yes I went to Mrs. Gilmore's Vigil it was the first one I ever attended... A great saddness has stayed with me since this beautiful young lady is living the American Dream she has a beautiful house with pretty flowers and lawn working 2 jobs and trying to have something in the struggle! It Angers me and I want more Media coverage of this case to find out what happened to this sister! Her husband was there also he and everyone eles was crying tears of Pain. The town is pointing the finger at him And If he did not do it This must drive him insane! When you go to a vigil and see this is someone's Loved one IN THE NAME OF JESUS> Haved they given the husband a lie detector test?/Have they tried a phyic?
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