Malcolm X, at the height of the civil rights movement said “The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman” That statement was true in 1964 and true now, African American women and girls have gone through over 400 years of oppression. Thanks to murals and other forms of media through slavery and segregation black women’s bodies were hyper-sexualized while also being heavily demonized. 

Black women and girls going missing, being murdered and sex trafficking isn’t anything new. During the 1800s black girls as young as 13 were being brought and sold along with their male counterparts, these young girls would be bought and sold and taken from their families and would never be heard of again. Even with the end of slavery and segregation in modern days, the number of missing black women has only risen rapidly.

“Black girl gone” the podcast unpacks these issues, the podcast is to spread awareness and give well-deserved media attention to these missing women. Like a majority of missing black women and girls who have gone missing, these women have gotten limited or no media attention, which is the direct result of their skin color. 

BBG tells the shocking and horror stories of what’s been happening to black women and girls for ages and they start with Connie Francis who went missing over 27 years during the crack epidemic. Connie’s case has gone unsolved since 1983 when she went missing her three children have grown up and have done their best to get Connie’s stories heard but as her daughters ____ said  “Because so little is known about Connie’s disappearances and because she’s a junkie black single mother of three her story is appealing to the media” Amara the host of the podcast talks about even for her she was reluctant to tell Connie’s story because there’s almost nothing to tell.

These stories have been terrifying little black girls for decades and  Nadine Dockendorf  Talks about how growing up in a predominantly white area  “full of rednecks “it’s always been a fear of hers knows that she is no different than the other 100,000 who went missing in 2021 her case would go unheard and be forgotten. Nadine and Cks own track star Khamael Gauld believe this issue isn’t only skin deep but systematic.

The girls talk about how they feel because black women are socially considered less than and ghetto and that because the media for decades has linked and made black women synonymous with being criminals, bad mothers, and mentally ill that not only will police not treat their cases with importance bout outright disregard them because they’re “responsible or brought this upon themselves”.

When you start unpacking the statistics and find out that almost one-third of missing women in the united states is a black woman and start asking questions like why are that black women make up less than 15 percent of the population in America but are at the highest risk of being murder, kidnaped and sex trafficked and realizing that this issue goes almost u heard the feature slowly starts to feel bleak. The reality of the world is dark and sad and if these thousands of women were white they would be at home with their families who miss them so desperately.