Open Your Mouth!

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Peas In Their Pods is an organization dedicated to raising awareness of the alarming number of missing, abducted, abused, and abandoned children within the African American Community.

Our Nation is in a state of emergency. Every 40 seconds a child is reported missing in the United States. Of these missing children, 42 percent are African American children who are being torn from their families. It is crucial that the African American Community in our country become more involved in the safety of these precious children. There are astronomical numbers of abused, missing and murdered African American children that fail to get the needed exposure in the media. Very rarely are their precious little faces posted on milk cartons and bulletin boards, or reported on network and cable news shows.

The Open Your Mouth campaign is a very powerful one. It encourages, even challenges everyone to do ALL that is necessary to keep our children safe. The fact that 33% of all children who are abducted are African American is a staggering statistic. However, if everyone "opens their mouths" it will shed light on the fact that very few of these children receive the news coverage that they need in order to be found. Therefore, "Open Your Mouth" not only will help to give a voice to such families, but also will provide educational and preventative services so that families can learn ways to avoid tragedies.

For more information, please call Peas In Their Pods at: 516-333-9882

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678)

National Runaway Switchboard
1-800-621-4000

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Friday, September 25th 2009

8:04 AM

miltrice

This morning I heard the story of Mitrice Richardson of California. She is a 24 year old black woman who was arrested last week at a Malibu restaurant when she did not have enough money to pay her bill. The police searched her car and found a small amount of marijuana. The car was impounded and she was taken to the police station. She was released at about 1AM and she reportedly had no money on her. That was September 17th she has not been seen since. “In an interview, her father, Michael Richardson, questioned the Sheriff’s Department’s decision to release her without knowing for certain whether she was intoxicated or had arranged for transportation. “They allowed her to walk out of that facility and down that road in the pitch black night,” he said. “That’s not right. Now, I just want to find my child.” Her parents along with their lawyer appeared on the Today Show. I commend the Today Show for bringing attention to this case. I can not help but think of the amount of media that the Annie Le case received. She was the Yale medical student that was seen entering a lab at the university and not seen leaving it. The police reportedly worked on this story by their own account 24/7 and they found a suspect. This girl was allowed to walk out into the night unescorted. They had her car so they knew she had no means of transportation. Her lawyer suggested if her name had been Lohan or Spears she would have received a ride home. Lauer asked her mother whether Letrice was “street savvy”. Her mother said no she was not she actually had lived a sheltered life full of positive things. I am going to give Lauer the benefit of the doubt. The term street savvy indicates knowledge of the street. It is someone who knows all the angles and has the ability to make something out of nothing. Middle class and upper middle class black children are really no more street smart than their white counterparts. Supposedly the LA police department is widening their search. My hope is that Mitrice is found but we should have heard about her case before today. The question is why didn’t we?