REDONDO BEACH, Calif. — A missing groom is back home in California, a month after he failed to show up at his wedding.
Kenneth Souza vanished April 3, the day he was supposed to get married in Redondo Beach.
Oh my gosh! He could have been abducted! Missing for a month! Skipped out on his wedding! Quick, call the networks! Call CNN! Call Bill O’Reilly!
“Hello? Yes, a man disappeared, he’s been gone for a month, he skipped out on his wedding… what’s that? No, no, not a white woman. Oh. I didn’t know that. Sorry to bug you.”
Yup, if it’s not part of the continuing series of “White Women in Peril”, it ain’t getting network airtime. Jennifer Wilbanks, Laci Peterson, Susan Smith, Brooke Wilberger, this lady who recently gave CPR to her toddler who fell in the pool, how many more stories could we name that have gotten over-the-top wall-to-wall national news coverage. I’m not insensitive to the plight of murdered, disappeared, or kidnapped women, I’m just wondering why you never hear about minority women suffering the same fate? Don’t black women disappear under mysterious circumstances? Haven’t any pregnant Latino women been murdered by their husbands? Haven’t any Asian women rescued their near-drowned kids?
Maybe not. Maybe white women are just unlucky or nutty that way. Maybe it’s racist pandering to an audience that gives higher ratings to “White Women In Peril”. Maybe it’s too politically incorrect to comment on bad things minority women do or bad things that happen to minority women. Whatever. All I know is the next time I have to face 24/7 coverage of the personal fate of some woman, I want her to be named LaFawnduh or Conchita or Mei Ling…
