I’M SO SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT ANOTHER YOUNG EDUCATED SISTER MISSING. I WILL PRAY FOR HER AND HER FAMILY. # 34 (MEAT) U TOLD IT WHAT IT IS..IS WHAT IT IS. THEY NEED TO PUT HER PICTURE ON OPRAY WINFREY . WHERE IS THE REWARD.

nonoo.
1.my very first time seeing this girl’s face.
2.i DO believe that race does play a part in this. i do not care what anyone says. when Natalie Hollaway[sp?] was missing, I remember that a couple of black girls were missing. one was found dead and i didn’t hear about it until they did find that child’s body and the other was missing for a month. STILL HAVEN’T FOUND HER.and Natalie’s picture looking at me. The media needs to stop being biased. i am getting tired of this.

“As far as the interest by the national media in the story, I [b]think[/b] race probably had an impact,” said McMillin, who is white.

it DID.

Angel, thank you for bringing this to my attention. My sis writes at the Daily News and I will make sure she hears about this.

#44 and #58 good points

The Jackson State University Office of University Communications has launched an information site to keep the public up-to-date on the investigation.

The site can be accessed by visiting http://www.jsums.edu and clicking on Latasha’s photo.

Women should never tolerate a man putting his hands on em. I dont even like for my man to play around like that cause one slip up and its gon be like “damn..I liked that shit”. Next thing you know he’s gon ‘Baby Boy’ your ass. As far as her situation not getting any play on the news…is anyone really suprised by this anymore? I feel bad for the fam and i wish the best…

Now’s the time to call Al and Jesse.

I agree with Josh at #58. While I agree that race definitely plays a role in the media coverage of missing people, I think that class figures into the equation too. The Nailah Franklin case was the top news story locally and nationally while she was missing. Why? Because she was a professional young black woman employed by a top firm, and from an upper middle class suburban family while Latasha Norman is from the Mississippi Delta and attending a black college. The media favors class sometimes as much as race when they decide what story is worth covering.

BIG UPS TO CONCRETE LOOP FOR POSTING THIS. UP UNTIL THIS MOMENT IVE HEARD NOTHING ABOUT HER DISAPPEARENCE (did i spell that correctly?)…..UMMM I WONDER WHY? IN ANY EVENT,,,,THIS IS SAD…… ONLY GOD KNOWS WHERE SHE IS AND IF SHES OK…LETS KEEP THE FAITH AND PRAY FOR HER SAFE RETURN…..LETS ALSO LIFT HER FAMILY UP IN PRAYER ESPECIALY HER MOM…THATS GOT TO BE A HORRIBLE FEELING TO NOT KNOW WHERE YOUR CHILD IS AND IF SHE IS OK FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR…NOT TO MENTION ALMOST TWO WEEKS!!!!!! GOD BLESS ALL OF MY CONCRETE LOOP BROTHERS AND SISTERS…PEACE AND LOVE!!!!!!!!!!

WE WILL CONTNUE TO PRAY FOR HER AND HER FAM….THANX FOR POSTING THIS CL
JSU FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also I think that the reason why the Peterson case is getting so much attention is because her husband is more than 20 years her senior, this is his fourth marriage, he is a police officer, and his third wife died under mysterious circumstances. plus his first and second wife both stated he was abusive. it makes the case that much more newsworthy. not to say that a missing person case is not newsworthy in itself, but that damn Peterson case is like a soap opera!

God bless da family in greenville my home town Im praying

This is just terrible. Wat is goin on nowadays, not like this never happened before but shouldnt it stop now? May GOD let them find her!

May God be with her, wherever she may be.

What is a paragraph about Ms. Peterson’s disappearance doing in an article about the disappearance of Ms. Norman, particularly when the article stresses that the former has gotten more media attention than the latter? It’s a bit blatant in its perpetuation of this sad trend.

Just sad.

As long as she is black with a shiny face and an oldfashioned press n curl she will remain missing cuz dem Southern crackas ain’t beating no bushes for dat gal and y’all know it.

This is truly unfortunate. As a JSU grad, I am especially sympathetic to the family and campus community. And JSU is more than a small college campus in the south; It’s a major university for Black America.

@35/MEAT

Apparently, you haven’t noticed, but the majority of black men in this country are raised in single parent households, headed by black women. If black men have a problem mistreating their women, it’s because they learned how to interact with women from their mothers. I am so sick and tired of sisters blaming us for the problems that they cause. I know that the primary readership of this website is female, so please don’t take this as disrespect. I love black women. But I get sick of being included with the universal scapegoat because a significant percentage of you refuse to accept personal responsibility.

The question is WHAT CAN WE DO? We did SOMETHING with the Jena sitution, we can WE DO for this missing young woman? Do we all rally to petition/boycott CNN and other major news organizations when they fail to recognize/covers OUR missing persons stories? Do we write to their advertisers, citing imbalance in coverage and note that we will refuse to purchase their products unless these organizations are fair in coverage. Hell, this girl has been missing for over 2 years and here we are STILL talking about her????????????? Cmon, we all KNOW what goes down when those kids go away on the “spring break” vacation, so I am certain all was not innocent, not to say she deserved it, but here you have an asipiring somebody that was doing what she was SUPPOSED to be doing, and has gone missing.

And if I did not read this blog everyday, I would not know a thing about it…SMH.
Thanks for posting this Angel.

ANGEL, U ON PROINT WIT DIS POST! I PRAY GOD SHEDS SOME LIGHT ON HER WHEREABOUTS AND KEEPS HER FAM & 4RENDS STRONG. I KNOW MS VERY RACIST B/C I HAV FAM IN MCOMB, BEARTOWN, AND GLOSTER, VERY SMALL CITIES. AND AINT THEY STILL HANGIN FOLKS IN MISSISSIPPI?

unfortunately she will never be found unless her abductor runs his mouth and a reward is posted because America is more concerned with Hollywood. God bless her

92.

grippy - Take a step back, brotha! You’re not seeing the big picture! You need to answer the question: “Why are there so many single moms raising sons?” I’ll tell you why…because sorry ass men get them pregnant and don’t step up to the plate or responsibility! Men need to be blamed for our immaturity!

Maybe you take responsibility and care for your children, Grippy, and maybe you’ll be there to give your sons the guideline and boundries they need, but how can a single mom, who’s been deserted and left to raise boys into men…how can she teach respect and set boundries without killing his confidence and turning him gay?

Men should teach boys and women should teach girls! Simple as that! If Latasha’s abductor is one of the boys you described, I fault his father more than his mother. It’s more of a reflection of his dad than his mom!

It’s just like when a man leaves his wife for a younger woman…! In God’s eyes, he is still responsible for her! Just like there is a man somewhere who is responsible for Latasha’s ex, Ray Carruth and OJ.

Sorry to disappoint you bro, but we are the blame!

#35 and #44 hit the nail on the head. If we don’t come together as a whole and stand up for one another we will forever be lost. We have to start taking matters into our own hands. We can not just sit around and hope and pray that the police will do thier required duties and actually take time out to look for our missing ones, we have to stay at the police stations and news stations eveyday and every night until they get some leads.

When my cousin was killed in May, my family stayed at that Dallas Police Dept. day and night until they caught those bastards that killed him. (Sorry, I digressed a minute) But, we have to make a our voices heard, our petitions known!!! Again, I repeat, take matters into our own hands and quit depending on the “boys in blue” to give their all to our situations.

CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, Headline News, Nancy Grace, etc…will only talk about us (Blacks) if it is something negative. But, if you call and fill up their answering services, e-mail inboxs and post boxes with someone being missing, they have no choice but to respond to the situation. Natalee’s parents kept getting on the news, because they know that that’s also another way to get the word out that she was missing.

Sorry, if I sound repetive of the other post but information like this should be heard and known.

THANK YOU !!! FOR PUTTING THIS STORY OUT THERE THAT CONFIRMS MY THOUGHTS ON MY PEOPLE AND I’M LOVING IT BECAUSE WE ARE A BEAUTIFUL CARING RACE OF PEOPLE AND WE BAND TOGETHER IN TIMES OF CRISIS AND WE NO WHEN TO PLAY AND PRAY AND BE SERIOUS IN OUR CONVICTIONS AND THOUGHTS THANK YOU …..I BELIEVE THAT SHE WILL BE FOUND I’M PRAYING FOR A SAFE RETURN ALSO…

I am a resiodent of Jackson,MS and I think that it is a good thing to see this article on a website such as this. As soon as this young lady came up missing, the media should have been all over it. Instead, they aired this young lady’s disappearance for a split second then they aired Natalie Holoway’s disappearance like she just became missing. Don’t get me wrong my sympathy goes out to her family, but Latasha’s dsappearance deserves coverage also. As I type this comment, they have just found Latasha body behind a high school here in Jackson. Remember to keep her family in your prayers.

Hello,

I know that race is always mentioned when it comes to scenarios like this and it is maybe the primary concern for lack of concern in find this girl I just say let’s put the whole racism thing aside and Let’s look to God, let’s convince or pray that the authoirties do whatever they need to do to help find this young lady. I just hope that she is safe. God bless and Be safe !

Thank you concrete loop for doing what u do best; being their for our peopLe. If we’re not who wiLL? But I just wanted to let every1 know that they shouLd continue to pray that Latasha Norman wiLL be found.

99.
Ms Kiki
I just saw on the 5:00 news that the poLice are asking 4people who are sure about their info to come forward, for there are people who are actually saying that her body was found, when in fact it has not! This incorrect information is hindering the search and I just continue she is found soon!!!

*I continue to pray she is found soon!!!

To help support Latasha’s family, please visit the JSUNAA website http://www.jsunaa.com/

All proceeds will be forwarded the Norman Family.

Tasha, please come home! I miss you so much friend!!!

November 29, 2007

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Latasha Norman’s body possibly found

The Clarion-Ledger

File photo/The Clarion-Ledger

Latasha Norman is a Jackson State University student who have been missing since Nov. 13.

A body believed to be Latasha Norman, the Jackson State University student missing since Nov. 13, has been found in north Jackson, the county coroner says.

The body was found in a home on Brown Street and had been there about two weeks.

Earlier today Norman’s ex-boyfriend, Stanley Cole was taken in for questioning in her disappearance, said JPD spokesman Sgt. Jeffery Scott.

Scott called Cole a “person of interest” in Norman case.

Police took Cole into custody this morning when he showed up for a court hearing in Pearl to face simple assault charges for allegedly hitting Norman in a restaurant parking lot in October.

Authorities are interviewing Cole, but have not filed any charges at this time, Scott said.

The thing that puzzles, but perhaps shouldn’t, is how the media immediately jumped on the story of the internet porn star story. This young lady received no national attention. Then the American public wonders why WE can’t let go of things and why we have people to defend our civil rights in the national spotlight……What a nation we live in…

The body they found has been confirmed as the body of Latasha Norman. Very sad news, and what’s worse is that this news is not being carried by national media outlets. They just cover the white girl from Kansas who was found. When will Afircan Americans and Mississippians ever get the respect they deserve?

What make you think we are not interested in all missing persons no matter what color they may be? Stop media picking and choosing for us what we need to see it is not fair . After hearing about the incident for one day I had to search the internet to see what eventually happen. She was a human and because of a lack of media attention is no longer with us and maybe that could have been avoided. Stop spending time on Brittany Spears and Lindsay Lohan and focus on real journalism where you can do some good.

RE: JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY JUNIOR LATASHA NORMAN AND THE PERFECTED SYSTEM OF STUDENT ABUSE ADN COVERING UP MISTAKES

Dear JSUMS Community:

I am deeply saddened by the death of Latasha and I wish her family well as they/we recover. However, JSUMS ignoring, denial, classifying student complaints as unimportant, negligence, dereliction of duties, obstruction of justice, suppression of evidences, Conflict of interest when complaints are filed, refusal to hear witnesses, refusal to allow students to attend due process, grievance, and other hearings to offer opposing facts against students, staff, and employees is nothing new. Theey make excuses for faculty who abuse, fail, threaten, attack, intimidate and illegally grade students, especially if they are Asian, white, Indians, or other minorities who harbor stereotypes and hatred. The leaders complacently refuse to stand up and demand fair grading and nondiscrimination from those dealing with students- even when there is clear evidence of abuse, demands, and unfairness.

I went to JSUMS with 2 master degrees and a 3.9 GPA, and 3 other degrees in nutrition and two in Theology – I am a trained minister. The ignoring, condoning, making excuses for abuses, covering up facts, denial of known attacks, retaliations, 7 types of abuses, and violations of university, civil rights, federal, state, and other laws is nothing new at JSUMS. As a doctoral student there they engaged in first denying any hearings and due process to a student making a complaint as if though it is normal, which Latasha probably did. In hiding of facts, threats, illegal grade changes, academic homicides, physical abuses, intimidations, and blaming students who file complaints against violators in the Psychology Department they lost valuable time and information regarding what was really happening. When one denies facts, he or she arrives at faulty decisions such as – you deserved to be treated that way, you are stupid, and the like. Stupid idiots do not maintain a 3.9 GPA for 6 years in Graduate School as I did or hold 5 degrees without complications in the area of human relations!! RED LIGHT!!! I WAS CALLED EVERYTHING IN THE BOOK IN COURT, A LIAR, DUMB (WITH 2 MASTERS AND A 3.9 GPA FOR 6 YEARS), COMPLAINER, THEY REVERSED THE TIMELINE OF EVENTS AND PLACED EVENTS THAT HAPPENED MONTHS BEFORE AFTER EVENTS MONTHS LATER, SIGNED FALSE AFFAIDAVITS, DECALARATIONS, AND STATEMENTS – ANYTHING TO KEEP THE CASE OUT OF COURT AND THE JUDGE – WHO WAS RECEIVING PERSONAL GAINS FROM THROWING CASES OUT – IGNORE ALL FACTS AND DISMISSED THE CASE 9EVEN WITH TAPED THRERATS, SIGNED CONFESSIONS, AND ADMISSIONS TO VIOLATIONS).
I had to file a $6.5 million dollars suit to seek justice against them because they lied, covered up, and ignored attacks, abuse, grade changes, and other violence against me and doctoral student at JSUMS for 10 years some of he professors admitted that these things happened and then later denied it after written confirmation was out. Result, they took my tax money and hire $500-600 per our lawyers to lie and present false and contradictory information to cover the truth, AS LATASHA’S DISAPPEARANCE WAS HIDDEN FROM HER FAMILY FOR 1-2 WEEKS. FURTHERMORE, GET THIS – AT JSUMS, NO BLACK STUDENTS GRADUATED FROM THE JSUMS CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN 10 YEARS – 1994-2003/4 BECAUSE WHITE,ASIAN, BLACK,A ND OTHER PROFESSORS PLANNED THEIR FAILURE, GOT PISSED FOR ONE OR MORE REASONS, COLLABORATED, DEVELOPED A SYSTEM THAT KEPT BLACKS FROM GRADUATING, AND KICKED THEM OUT OF SCHOOL IN THEIR 3RD AND 4TH YEARS JUST BEFORE THEY FINISHED THE PROGRAM. After I field the suit and some people were forced out, black students started graduating from the program, NO THANKS TO ME!!

I am a lifetime Certified and Tenured Guidance, Mental Health, and Community Counselor 9multiple areas of community problems from Southern 9NO HATRED INVOLVED – BOTH ARE HBCU’S FUBU). I was a Crises Counselor at JSUMS and I could not tolerate the abuse any longer so I had to decide to XXXX someone or leave so I left and filed a lawsuit to get justice, SO I THOUGH – BUT IT DID NOT HAPPEN. The judges in the court have a wife that works at JSUMS and they are bedfellows (friends) of the AGO, AGO-IHL, and quickly dismiss and undermine lawsuits against JSUMS regardless of the volume of facts, violations, and depth of abuses (read and examine the exhibits in case 3;03CV1206 and USCOA 06-60458). JSUMS also has the federal judges in their corner, the more than 80 annual abuses, 10 years of denied graduations, matriculation, 13 years of denied readmission to black students in clinical Psychology (whites were readmitted at will), and quickly settled white lawsuits 9not black), cover up the violations against black students and prevent their matriculation and graduations in some cases.
These abuses committed against students are thrown out of federal court because the Chief Black Judge is a supporter of JSUMS and denies almost all complaints and abuses against the university, suppresses evidence, obstructs justice, hides exhibits, ignores clear evidence, and demands the hard cases the university need him to handle. This is in short a conflict of interest because his: friends, mentors wife, mentees, past and present employer (the AGO and AGO-IHL where he teaches classes are at or oversee JSUMS. Thus he reduces the charges, fines, or throws that cases out all together by obstruction of justice, ignoring evidence, ignoring facts, admissions, confessed violations, and other affirmations that the students, staff, and employees are abused – in their favor.
The administrators refused more than 15 times and for 1.5 years to have due process hearing when Beverly Ellis and I filed a complaint. One professor, sheree Watson was an abusive professors who did not come to class 40-50% of the time, had no syllabus, grading system, no GTA, no substitute when she missed 50% of he classes, and then failed 33% of the students in the class for her negligence. She was found guilty, was denied tenure, but was allowed to later come back and fail me in my classes, though I was taking them under someone else and they never gave me back my money.
WHAT’S MY POINT/ TEY WILLLIE TO COVER UP THE TRUTH AND ATTACK YOU FOR SEEKING YOUR EDUCATION – ACCOUNTABLE EDUCATION FOR YOUR MONEY. I filed a grievance and demanded an investigation won but they later told me they were going to hang me and there wasn’t a dXmn thing I could do about it and they did. This deep mental, emotional, social, psychological, academic, physical, etc. threats, intimidations, and abuses that take place to destroy students seeking a degree is nothing new at JSUMS. It is becoming normal behavior that is overlooked – hence the delay in reporting Latasha’s missing – disappearance – pure denial, negligence, and dereliction of duty that is later apologized for in gloating speeches of sadness when a student is killed, BS – STOP THE RETALIATION, NEGLIGENCE, IGNORING STUDENT COMPLAINTS, AND INVESTIGATE AS THE JSUMS POLICE DO!! For 10 years no black student’s graduated in Clinical Psychology while Mason, Guillory, Stevenson, Robinson, Gardner, and others hid their heads in the sand - NONE ASKED WHY THERE WERE NO CLINICAL PSYCHOOLOGY GRADUATES OR INVESTIGATED OUR COMPLAINTS – THOUGH FILED MORE THAN 12 TIMES. IN SOME CASES, THEY BELIEVED THE PROFESSORS AND PARTICIPARTED IN THE ILLEGAL ATTACKS, GRADE CHANGES, FORCING STDENTS OU, DESTROYING THEIR GOOD RECORDS, GRADES, AND FAIL THEM TO ELEMINATE EVIDENCE AS THEY DID ME. The participated in the attacks via commission or omission and our students suffered and still do.

THEY ENLISTED PROFESSORS & STUDENTS TO LIE, SIGN FALSE STATEMENTS, ENLISTED STUDENTS TO LIE FOR REWARDS (GRADUATION/GRADES), OTHER THINGS AND WOULD NOT ALLOW WITNESSES (FROM THE COMPLAINTING STUDENTS TO PRESENT OPPOSING FACTS, PROOF, EXHIBITS, AND INFORMATION UNDER THREATS THAT THEY WOULD BE FIRED AND / OR WOULD NOT GRADUATE.

Read the cases and review the facts of 10 years, more than 80 violent, retaliatory, and ongoing acts of violence, threats, illegal grade changes, physical, mental, emotional, and other abuses against students and then their use of planted judges to cover up this violence through the EEOC, OCR, Federal, and State Courts who suppress, obstruct, hide, deny, and threaten people to keep the facts from the media. I dare you!!
I SUFFFERED AND WAS ATTACKED IN MORE THAN 80 WAYS AT JSUMS AS A STUDENT ALONG WITH 60 PLUS OTHERS (THE JACKSON STATE 60+ I CALL THEM).

THEY ATTACKED ME AND MY COLLEAGUES FOR MORE THAN 13 YEARS AND NONE OF US GRADUATED FROM JSUMS UNTIL THE CASES WERE FILED. THIS ABUSE IS NOTHING NEW TO JSUMS BUT I HOPE LATASHA’S DEATH WILL SHED LIGHT ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH JSUMS WILL IGNORE, COVER UP, BURY, HIRE EXPENSIVE LAWYERS, AND COMMIT ILLEGAL JUDICIAL PRACTICES TO BURY THE FACTS REGARDING WHAT ISACTUALLY HAPENING THERE. I WRITE THIS BECAUSE I EXPERIENCED IT FIRST HAND AS A JSUMS STUDENT AND NEVER RECEIVED JUSTICE, I HOPE LATASHA WILL, SOMEONE IN THE ADMINISTRATION KNEW AND DID NOTHING.

I HOPE THE MISTAKES THEY HAVE BEEN MAKING WILL FINALLY COME OUT, EDUCATORS WLL LISTEN TO STUDENTS WHEBN THEY SA I DID THE WORK AND XYZ FAILED ME ANYWAY - ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PERSON HAS MAINTAINED A 3.9 GPA FOR 6 YEARS - THEY CAN’T BE IGNORANT.

OUR BLACK STUDENTS NEED ATTENTION, NO A COVERUP WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS. WE NEED TO BE HONEST, OPEN, COMMUNICATE WITH FAMILES, AND DEAL WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THEM. WE NEED A COMMUNITY THAT EDUCATES AND GRADUATES MORE THAT 40/100 STUDENTS ATTENDING SCHOOL AND NOT JUST BLAME THEM AND HIDE FOR THE THINGS GOING TO PROTECT OUR IMAGE. LATASHA’S PARENTS SHOULD HAVE KNOWN - AND THEY SHOUL HAVE KNOWN EARLY THAT SHE WAS MISSING - NOT AFTER A HEATED DEMAND FOR ANSWERS.

PEACE ,

LESTER L. WASHINGTON, MA, M.ED., ABD
PAST JSUMS CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY DOCTORAL STUDENT
LIFETIMETIME TENURED AND CERTIFIED COUNSELOR

Well everybody, I’m sad to say that LaTasha Norman is decesaed. That lowdown dirty evil ex-boyfriend of hers killed her. Rest In Peace LaTasha. God bless her heart.

Grippy,

What males you know look up to females rather than males as role models for behavior? Boys look to men to model themselves after–not women. And even if it were true, that parents were equally influential, regardless of gender, at the end of the day a grown man stops blaming his parents for his mess.

You need to look up what “cause” and “responsibility” are b/c you have mistaken them with “effect” and “projection,” respectively. No amount of spin can hide the fact that it is not black women raping and murdering black men, but the exact opposite and universally so. That systemic level of anti-female violence shows something is damn wrong with our *culture* in terms of what we expect from our sons and brothers, and the people best able to combat it is us–black men. Don’t subscribe to a culture that dehumanizes and demonizes black women. Don’t make excuses for black men out of a false sense of loyalty; trust me, he ain’t being helped–and neither is his family. Sure, women can be horrible–as all human beings can be–but we need to make brothers around us realize that violence is only justifiable in self-defense. Hurt feelings don’t cut it.

God bless Latasha’s family. She did right and left that fool’s ass but it still didn’t save her. People need to understand the next time they blame a woman for staying that the vast majority of domestic violence murders happen *after* she leaves. Remember that next time someone says, “Why doesn’t she leave?” Hell, tell them, “Why doesn’t he leave her if he finds her so much trouble?”

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