They may have found Gabby Petito

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6. If this is her, I am very sorry that she became

a victim of someone, likely her boyfriend.

But are we going back to the time when a missing or murdered white woman becomes the focus of media attention for days and weeks at a time? I do not in any way wish to minimize the problems and dangers that women face. I am a survivor of an abusive relationship in which my abuser threatened to kill me and tried a few times. I am also white, but have a Native grandmother.

There is a huge problem in the US and Canada of missing and murdered Native women that doesn't get addressed. Quite often, their cases get minimal, if any, investigative attention by law enforecement.

I can't speak for African American women, but I am sure that there are many who also end up missing and/or murdered.

Yet missing and murdered Native and Black women do not become the focus of nonstop media attention. The media attention to individual cases of missing and murdered white women does not address the problem. In fact, the coverage begins to look and sound like entertainment. It's as if the public gets to follow a "real life murder mystery," but without consideration for the fact that it IS real life, and not media entertainment.

This coverage titilates the public's voyeurism, but does nothing to resolve the real problem.

If people really care about missing, murdered, abused, and exploited/trafficked women, they can donate to shelter programs. They can volunteer to be trained as advocates. They can pressure their legislators to improve services for women and to follow through on investigations involving women of color.