Thanks Angel for covering these types of stories. It saddens me everytime I hear a story like this especially when boyfriends become suspects. We need to be more careful…

God bless this young woman and may they find her safe…
My prayers go out to the family….

It is true that her case should be on CNN every night like the Peterson woman. I hope and pray for her safe return! Ladies, let this be a lesson, always make sure that someone knows your coming and goings like a close friend or family member. I am 34 yrs old and I still tell my parents where I am going and who I am with. It might sound a bit paranoid, but nowadays people are getting abucted and killed left and right, and no one even knows they are missing for a couple of days. Also if the man you are dealing with is violent, make sure you report him to the police. it is better that he sit in jail then you wind up missing!

Lets get the word out!

WE HAVE GOT TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN WHETHER THEY ARE HOME OR AWAY AT COLLEGE. THIS IS CRAZY, SHE IS TRYING TO GET AN EDUCATION AND TO COME UP MISSING? COME ON, THEY NEED TO BE LOOKING FOR HER 24/7. I KNOW HER FAMILY IS GOING CRAZY, ITS THE HOLIDAY SEASON. LETS KEEP HER FAMILY IN OUR PRAYERS AND PRAY FOR HER SAFE RETURN…..

GOD BLESS CL BLOGGERS AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING….WE HAVE SOO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR, JUST ASK KANYE AND ALL THAT HAVE LOST LOVED ONES…

like you said if she was white, blonde hair, blue eyes this would of been head line news.

This is sad. Praying for her family and hoping that she returns to them safely.

Stacy H, keep speaking the truth!

May God Bless her that she might be found safe and alive! This saddens me to the core especially around the holidays. Someone is missing their daughter, friend and sister right now, please Blessed Jesus intercede and hopefully there is a happy outcome!

Thank God there is blogs like Concrete Loop to cover such stories like these. And it’s not suprising at all that the media don’t give a fuck about black people. I mean lets compare this case with Kanye’s mother death. They depicted this woman death very poorly, and showed no sympathy for her. But hey she was just another black woman the media don’t give a fuck about.

This is such sad crying shame. I totally agree with #3 - let people know where you are, snap pictures of friends, share phone numbers and addresses if you can. This is just crazy, and I know the chances are slim after a certain amount of time, but i do pray they find this young woman alive. More media coverage!!!

Wow, they always ignore the black women and it’s really something to think about, I had no idea, but I’ll be praying.

MY PRAYERS GOES OUT TO HER AND HER FAMILY. I’M STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT DID THEY EVER FIND THE TRINI GYAL FROM NY WHO WENT TO JOHN JAY. SHE HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE SUMMER. ANYWAY, STORIES LIKE THIS…. DOESNT HAVE HAPPY ENDING.I JUST HOPE THAT I’M WRONG. GOD BLESS HER AND HER LOVE ONES.

PS. THANKS CL FOR COVERING THIS STORY

I hope she is okay, this is sad.

God be with her and her family during this time.

I don’t care what these women race is this is sad. Every week there is some woman missing and usually it’s the ex or current boyfriend/husband that has something to do with it. This ish needs to stop.

This damn nation has got to get itself together! A young girl aspiring to be somebody in this world is missing! I truly hope they find her safe and sound. Black women have endured so much, it’s time everybody woke up for once and realized there is no world without em!

Thanks Concrete loop for getting the word out to our community. I’ve been hearing about Petterson for weeks now and I’m just now hearing about Latasha Norman! This is getting ridiculous, does this young lady’s dissaperance not deserve to be publicized because shes black?! My thoughts and prayers go out to this young lady and her family, I’m praying for a happy outcome.

I pray they find her safe. My nephew was murdered this same day. R.I. P. Deont’e

Being a current graduate student at the university, I’m glad that you guys have strated to cover this story i read concreteloop everyday at the office and its about time this story is getting some press. Thank you guys for cover this story and my herat and prayers go out to her and her family

this is how we are viewed by the world, thank you concrete loop for highlighting this story, my prayers are with the family.

wow this really hits home… my sister goes to jackson state!!
i really hope she returns home safely
thanks CL

Latasha and her family will be in my prayers…

May God be with her and her family. I pray she returns home safe.

Thank you Angel for posting this story. I have NOT heard about this case. It is a damn shame how the media ignores one story and constantly covers another one when it is basically the situation. It is just like Kanye said ” Racism still alive they just be concealing it.”-Never Let Me Down

I will pray for the family,this has to be an absolute nightmare for them.

My prayers are with her family and I hope she is okay and found.

IM SO HAPPY YA’LL POSTED THIS…i dont attend jackson state but i do attend MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY and we first heard about this through facebook by some friends who attend JSU….never had this happen so close to home,i hope they find her still alive and well…

Her, her family got my blessings hope she has a safe return.

Damn shame. If she was white this would be all over the news….
It is amazing how white women/children’s lives are more valued to the MEDIA than any other race.

Sad story, my heart goes out to the family & friends.

Ya’ll be safe and have a nice Turkey Day….keep praying for her family and all the families who have loved ones that are missing or recently passed away. the holidays are no joke… this is the worse time of year to be without the ones you love.

I have family in Jackson, so I will see if they have heard. I know it hasn’t reached Memphis yet, and we aren’t that far away not to get this news. I will be praying for her and her family! Thanks for the heads up Concrete Loop!

Yeah, almost everybody in the SIPP has heard.. I also attend an HBCU in the Jackson metro area. I don’t understand wtf is going on these days with ppl! Ladies, PLEASE leave these crazy men alone. I know ppl think this may not happen to them, but the girl went missing in broad daylight getting out of class. UGH! Thnx for covering this concrete loop.

Wake-Up Everybody!

We’re still treated like second-class citizens in America! Just because slavery was abolished, doesn’t mean we gained equality! Job opportunities are not the same. The right to a quality education didn’t become a priority with civil rights! Martins death didn’t convince them to protect our women and children. First Katrina and now this!

And, to the brothers!!! Some of us are still acting like wild animals! From ministers beating their wives to abusive professional athletes. What is it with black men? Too many steriods. I know it soulds like I know the whole story, but crazy $#!T like this be going on all the time on black college campuses! Jackson State University should be the pride of Mississippi, but the brothers…and a few sisters mess it up!

Don’t get me started, because I don’t care what the white media does about white on white versus black on black crime! In a majority of the cases, the outcomes has nothing to do with the news coverage! The solution for us is not equal news coverage…the solution is what Teddy Pendergras said: “Wake Up, Everybody”! The world ain’t gone get no better, if we just let it be!

Now, to the parents who raise sons that go on to abuse and violate women, children and aminals: Start setting boundaries for these knuckleheads when their young. Single moms, find some strong men in your church (start attending) or community to mentor your son and make sure that your young man learns to respect women.

Ray Carruth… O.J. Simpson.. Bishop Weeks (Juanita Bynum)… Mike Tyson… Jason Kidd… Ron Artest… Bobby Brown… Michael Vick… R. Kelly… Jackson State ex boyfriend???

Lastly, to the young women: Learn to recognize a self-respecting and gentleman who knows how to behave himself! You should avoid the thugs and pimps. Life is too short to waste it on someone who is immature, lazy, mean, drunk and stupid! I don’t blame the Latasha’s of this world, but I hope my college sister learn from this incident! You have to protect yourself at all times. Even if it means finding another College and moving to another city! Then minute you realize that you’re involved with a fool…its time to kick him to the curve like “New York” did Budah! But, she then turned around and let him back in the house! He’s an alpha male with violent tendencies! He and Punk have used steriods and they are walking time bombs.

Thanksgiving???

#35 - You speak nothing but the truth…

Thanks to Concreteloop for prociding a medium to get the word out.
To the extend possible everyone reading this needs to get the story and her picture out through email, posted on your myspace, facebook, and other personal websites.

If her race is a barrier in getting the support needed to help find her, then we must do what we have always done - make another way.

Prayers for her Safe return - Prayers of strength and faith for her family and friends.

^^ I’m sorry that should be #34 -MEAT… Speaking the truth.

@ #35 I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER! YOU LITERALLY TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH. ANY ONE THAT COMES OM THIS BLOG NEEDS TO READ WHAT U WROTE AND REFLECT.

R U A MALE OR FEMALE? JUST WONDERING WHERE THE WORDS OF WISDOM ARE COMING FROM

Wow, I hope she’s alright, she’ll be in my prayers

I MEANT #36 NOT #35, THEY MUST’VE JUST CHANGED THE # B/C I MADE THE SAME MISTAKE

I am a student at Jackson State University so this hits right home!! Its a shame how they cant find any clues to her whereabouts. None of her friends have any idea of where she could be. Its just so saddening to hear about these type of things, but when it happens right under your nose, its even worse.

I live in Chicago and the Peterson case is on the top of the news almost everynight, while a black 14 year girl from Chicago has been missing for a week barely gets media attention. I get so mad at this. Also, two black women were found burned in Chicago, but that story just slipped away from the news. We have to start making the media pay attention. I commend the family of Naliah Franklin because they made sure she (Naliah) stayed in the news until she was found. CL thanks for the post

DAMN THIS MY FIRST TIME HEARING ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHE SHOULD GET THE SAME ATTENTION AS
STACI PETERSON
NATALIE HOLLOW AND OTHER WHIT MISSING WOMEN THAT AINT EVEN RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

START POSTING AND BLOGGING PEOPLE..I KNOW I AM HEADED OVER TO MYSPACE RIGHT NOW…HOW SAD….MAY GOD BLESS HER AND HER FAMILY

I hate to sound like the devil’s advocate, but I saw in a news report that the main reason why so many white women are reported in the news when they come up missing is because the family and friends of these women go out and get the media attention, they call the stations and alert the media, and form the search groups for their loved ones. they are active in getting the word out. I don’t know if it is ignorance on our part ( I mean lack of knowledge not stupidity), or if is the general lack of trust with the police or media, but if someone is missing then the first thing we need to do is report it to the police and then get the local media involved ASAP. even if the first radio or TV station does not want to help, you have to keep trying until someone does care. we have to be just as vocal as the white families and not just assume that the police are going to get the media involved.

WHEN WILL THIS SOP!!??

if it was not posted on here i would not have heard about this!
lord please be with this young lady and give her parents and
family some comfort and strength during this time, i could not
imagine what they’re going thru!!1!11

I’m so glad you posted this Angel………I pray that she is found safe and alive………Why haven’t I heard this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

It’s really a shame that our black sistahs and brothas never get the same media attention as whites.

I pray they find her safe and sound.

Read about this on another board…thanks for posting this Angel! I pray for her safe return.

My prayers will rise up in regards to Latasha Norman. Thank you Concreteloop for providing news that is relevent to us.

God bless.

Praying for a safe return!!!!

I hope this turns out ok. My friends think that I am crazy for carrying a concealed weapon (my baby Mrs .380). I am not going out w/o a fight and in this day and age you need to carry someting, weather it be mace, knife, stun gun.

Damn. Hopefully they find her. It’s good that the police chief pointed out the obvious. Maybe then there’ll be more coverage.

Thanks to Concrete Loop!!! i’m Latasha’s cousin and it was a shock for me to see her picture up on this site because i come here faithfully to read whats going on in the music industry being that i’m in inspiring music producer…. but thanks concrete loop my family is trying 2 hold strong and with so many prays we cant expect nothing least then a safe return..

My Contact Info:
Dee
Greenville, MS
deetrackarsonist@gmail.com

Thanks everyone.. Be Blessed..

OH LORD, NOT AGAIN….WHEN WILL THIS SHIT END…ANOTHER FEMALE MISSING, WITH A VIOLENT ASS BOYFRIEND OR EX-BOYFRIEND….I’M STUMPED AND STARTING TO FEEL VERY CALLOUSED.

I DON’T KNOW THE SITUATION HERE, BUT I JUST WISH WOMEN WOULD GET THROUGH THEIR THICK SKULLS THAT ONCE SOMEONE CROSSES THE LINE AND HITS YOU, PLEASE, NEVER TALK TO THEM AGAIN, AND DEFINITELY NEVER TRUST THEM. I WOULDN’T EVEN GO AROUND THE CORNER WITH THEM…JUST GO YOUR OWN WAY AND NEVER TALK TO THEM EVER, IF THEY GOT SOMETHING OF YOURS, HELL, LET THEM KEEP IT….

MY PRAYER LIST GET’S LONGER EVERY SINGLE MINUTE…….

AND FORGET AN INVESTIGATION…..NONE IS NEEDED, WE KNOW WHAT’S UP…..AUTHORITIES SHOULD JUST GO GET THE EX THAT HIT HER AND TORTURE HIS ASS UNTIL HE TELLS THEM WHAT’S UP……LOW DOWN DOG.

I agree with #3 and #44. We have to get the word out ourselves. Let’s blog this and send this info to as many people as possible! Unfortunately, it usually is the family and friends that initiate the search parties and alert the media to get the attention and public’s help! I’m with #3, when I’m going out by myself, I always leave a note on the back of my front door with the time, date, and type of clothing I’m wearing just in case something pops off! It may be crazy, but if I turn up missing, someone knows where to start. Also, I don’t carry cash and use my debit card for all transactions to leave a paper trail. Cell phones also help to track calls when you move around and it hits different towers! Ladies, let’s be safe and help this family by getting the word out! It’s been 2 years and they’re still talkin about Natalie Holloway and arresting suspects…. AGAIN!

In this case I don’t think the lack of national attention is so much because of her color. I think it has much more to do with the fact that this happened in Mississippi. Mississippi is looked down upon by like everybody in the country. Yes, we have a bad past, but don’t look down on everybody who is from this state. It’s time that the United States learns that everybody in Mississippi is not stupid, dirt poor, and on welfare. Give the people of Mississippi, especially we African-Americans, some respect.

I go to Ole Miss (The University of Mississippi) and I remember when Rodney Lockhart, a track star at our school, was murdered in his apartment on a Saturday; not national news whatsoever. The very next day, a athlete at the University of Memphis was murdered and it was on every national news outlet that exists. They were both black male students, but because Rodney was in Mississippi, it just didn’t matter to the national news.

People better learn that people in Mississippi are just like people in any other state. Hopefully with the first presidential debate being at Ole Miss next year, maybe people will learn to realize that we deserve respect.

It jus happended last week…and was on the news friday….this happened right down the street from..me…so its kind of frustrating

Another young black woman gone missing.

I hope they find this young lady safe and alive.

Stepha Henry is also a young black woman, who has been missing since May ‘07. She was a recent college graduate and was last seen in Miami. I don’t think they have found her either.

My prayers go out to the family.

I cant thank you enough for covering this story!!!! I am from Jackson, MS and they have been trying their best to get the national media involved in the efforts to find her. Our prayers are with her and her family. Thanks again Concrete Loop!!!

CONCRETE LOOP…thanks for posting this story. It is true that she deserves just as much information about her disappearance as anyone else. I’ve been hoping for something to come forth so that her family, friends, and those who are concerned can put their fears to rest.

Please know that the entire JSU community and family is hoping for a complete, and prayerfully safe resolution, to this important happening in our community.

May God bless her and the family, hope she is safe! And this so-called “LAND OF THE FREE” country we live in needs to address this issue ASAP. Race should NEVER be an issue when something like this happens.

Dang, first time i am hearing of this. Yes, Angel rocks for always being on top of stories like this. Praying that she turns up okay and my heart goes out to her fam.

They have no suspects?????? That ex-boyfriend seems like a damn good person of interest.

God bless the young lady and her family. I hope she will be found safe. Let’s quit whinning about race. You are doing the right thing by using your site to get the word out. Don’t expect another race to use it’s resources to help us. Let’s use our own. Tha’t what happened with the Jena 6 situation.

no matter what color,race or creed even what state she is from I hope & pray they find her safe and sound in JESUS name.

her family needs to organize and do more to get her story across mainstream media.

I keep her and her family in my prayers.

my prayers go out to her family and friends..hope they find this girl soon..damn not again….

@ 44 and 57:

In a way, I understand what the both of you are trying to say, but please know that in many cases, families of color that try to reach out to the police and the media in regards to a missing loved one, get brushed off and ignored. For instance, if a young black female is reported missing, investigators assume that she ran away from home because she was “abused”, or maybe she is out with a “boyfriend” and she’ll find her way back eventually. Then the issue of age comes into play. If she’s 21, she left by choice and she’s an adult and can raise herself…
Investigators just make their own assumptions when it comes to black people, they don’t care about facts and whatever facts they recieve, they will twist it around to something else. Like the story with Ramona Moore, I will NEVER forget that!

http://mysite.verizon.net...lem2/2007.01.07_arch.html

This is why the American goverment sucks, they would rather be poking their nose in other countrys business insted of looking out for there own people.

My prayers go out to this young woman and her family and friends.

That’s so sad that our people can’t get the same coverage.I pray that she comes back home sage.God knows we don’t need anther missing black women.Sounds like the family will not give up.And that’s what’s important.

Thanks for posting this Angel.

I will pray for Latasha’s safe return.

I want to use this tragic situation to bring light to the fact that black women are under attack.

mostly be black men and other black women FIRST.

we like to blame white people but they aint hittin us harder than our own.

the white media doesnt have much sympathy for a people who call their own women ugly, hoes, nappy heads.

everytime you diss a black woman for something, you are contributing to the lynching against black woman.

i challenge black men to be men and stop abusing the already abused and disgarded black woman.

i say black women should unite for the sake of themselves bc our men will not help us.

they have been selling us out since before the 80s but yet and still black women refuse to believe that they are involved in a civil war with their own men and continue to blame the white media for ignoring us.

hip hop, black male celebrities spouse choices, the images of black women that do get out, all these missing cases, rapes,and etc.

wake up black women

do you love your blackness so much that you will die for a black man?

if so, you need GOD.

im rollin with the GOD and my sisters in this war right here.

we’ve got ourselves a full blown war and most the wealthy black men in our community could care less.

black women unite before it escalates and it will sooner than you think.

thanks again Angel for posting this message

Latasha has a very pretty smile.

may GOD be with her.

i hate the fuckin news channel i don’t even look at em. (’scuse language) But a missing person is a missing person and it shouldn’t matter what race, besides white, the human is, the world should be informed that someones (child) missing. Why the hell does race depends on if someons missing child gets media attention?? That’s just straight up wrong, evil, and disturbing that the damn news would be so freakin racest like that.

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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It is 2007 !!!! We still donot have equal rights!!!! But a change we come!!!!