The most difficult aspect of this case is "what does this missing woman really look like?" Yes, there is a slight resemblance in the three fotos on my blog, but to me they could genuinely be three different women! NO RACISM INTENDED. Period. A chicken-hearted commenter emailed me that the picture I call "white" shows a woman with surgically-reduced lips. Who cares! What we all SHOULD know, is exactly what LF looked like the day she vanished. Look at Natalee Holloway photos, they're like rubber-stamp images. I know there are many of you out there who are like chameleons with different looks (or maybe you have little chameleon kids) so an accurate photograph is a MUST. Wherever LF is, I hope she is still alive and gets home safely.

Although this case has been bullied onto the national news to prove a point about race and media by political opportunists like Richard Cranium, it never was a case about a missing woman and is not national news. There is nothing particularly unusual about this case. She is an inner-city African-American/Latino woman, living a more than unconventional lifestyle in a high crime area, and now she's missing--big surprise. Furthermore, this story is hurtful to minorities because it has done nothing other than to reinfornce negative stereotypes: (1) LaToyia's father and other relatives are barely literate; (2) LaToyia's best friend said: "She coulda been snatched up by anybody, or one of her baby's fathas, or some guy she's messin wit" (rolling eyes); and (3) rather than save up more money, LaToyia and Baby Fatha No. 2 took their money and bought fried seafood rather than pay the $35 co-pay for prenatal care. The Natalee Holloway case is national news. She is a beautiful young woman, with a full scholarship to the University of Alabama, who disappears on what would otherwise be a dream vacation to an island resort with the lowest crime rate in the world. Big, big difference, in every respect. I hope LaToyia returns home safely, although I doubt it. In the end, however, we should not have to have our national news littered with this story. I assure you the end result will only cause more embarassment and humiliation, and it's clear that national news anchors are annoyed by having to cover this story because they too, of course, realize it's not national news. Wise up Cranium, this isn't about you and your outdated political agenda.

I am so sorry to hear that Latoyia was found murdered. God rest her soul. I pray that her daughter will remember the good times with her mother, and that she will never let people's ignorant statements cloud her memory or perception of her mother. I shudder in anger having just read what the person "Mike" wrote in regards to Latoyia's story. Hardly could any embarassment have ever come from this or any other story of a missing person. The last time I checked all of us bleed red, all of us breathe oxygen and all of us cry tears. The afore mentioned facts mean none are more important, none are more valuable and none are more worthy to be searched for by a nation of people who claim to be civilized. Please stop acting live an ignorant caveman and remember no one knows what the future holds, pray you never have to search for a loved one.

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