It’s a good thing so many of those who fought so hard to end segregation in the 1960s are dead and gone. Because watching the left’s attempts to undo their efforts and redraw racial boundaries is nothing short of infuriating.
In the latest attempt to bring back segregation, California is implementing its new “Ebony Alert,” a statewide alarm system to notify people via their smartphone when a black child goes missing.
If you’re wondering if that sounds familiar, it should. There’s already a nationwide service called the Amber Alert, a message that goes out to local smartphone users notifying them of a recent child abduction and giving them details to look out for to help find the missing minor. Which should be plenty enough - after all, there are no racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic qualifiers for who gets an Amber Alert. Any child who authorities deem meets the standard for a missing person is included.
But apparently, for Californian lawmakers who see nothing but race, that’s not good enough - black people need their own alert system to “prioritize” their cases.
Unlike Amber Alerts, which only apply to minors under the age of 17, the “Ebony Alert” will sound the alarm for missing black persons between the ages of 12 and 25, meaning that grown adults who decide of their own accord to skip town, or whose families don't hear from them for a few days, could end up on the list. The alert will notify law enforcement and California Highway Patrol to be on the lookout for the person, and information will be posted on electronic road signs and cell phone alerts.
Democrat state Sen. Steven Bradford, who authored the bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, said the new system will correct alleged racial disparities between missing black youth and other races, who he claims get more attention and are better assisted by Amber Alerts.
“We feel it’s well beyond time that we dedicate something specifically to help bring these young women and girls back home because they’re missed and loved just as much as their counterparts are,” Bradford explained.
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Social justice groups claimed the black community needs their own alert because otherwise, "white girls" get all the attention.
"You see the difference of when White girls go missing and Black girls go missing," Berry Accius, founder of Voice of the Youth, told CBS News. "The sense of urgency is not there."
But while some data shows more non-black children have been found via Amber Alerts than missing black kids, even experts in the field can’t quite figure out why. The Los Angeles Times reports that “The Black and Missing Foundation also also found that Amber alerts are inexplicably less effective when Black children are missing than for white children.”
Timothy Griffin, an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada, Reno, told the outlet that Amber Alerts aren’t that effective in the first place, and it’s unlikely that an Ebony Alert will be any different.
There’s just not a lot of reason to believe that when there’s an Amber Alert success it’s successfully rescuing children from threatening situations,” Griffin explained. “Thus, I would strongly suspect that that would be the experience of any implemented Ebony Alert in California.”
But hey, don’t let facts get in the way of throwing wads of taxpayer money at the wall and hoping they stick - as long as it at least looks like you’re tackling a supposedly “racist” problem.
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