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California Creates the "Ebony Alert" for Missing Black Children

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0:00 hey that car is one of them alerts and finds out it a black kid damn it I helped them [Music] out you know about the Amber Alert right yeah you're fan of them Amber Alert fan I wish they had it when I was K that right now yeah yeah dude amber alert for sure what would you change about it if you could change something like where's the Amber I don't want them to disrupt me when I'm watching a show that I like oh okay oh yeah on your phone me later when the show's done and they're like what the ████ but I think that's the point right I guess do you think there's any ways that it can be improved cuz what did I tell you the license plate or the car potentially okay is alert like Nationwide or is it just like local oh local local there's both the most recent test was a nationwide alert I think really that's

0:51 the one that we all got and everybody got in the Amish people got in trouble for having phones yeah oh that's hilarious dude and a couple prisoners what would I change nothing dude how how how often do you guys look at the amber alert and then start looking for that ████ car I do it in the vicinity and I go I one time I thought I saw a ████ well now that I shut up really now that I have a kid but before I'm like ████ why what made you think you saw cuz it was a white Toyota Corolla and it was like elderly someone got it was like a old lady that got kidnapped or something this was ████ falling up and ████ and then I and I looked outside the window I swear to God and I saw it like out of my did you call the cop but I was trying to look at the license plate and I was like and did the driver go for a second shut the ████ up do you yeah I would be freaked out this gu ████ if you guys actually saw the car would you do a

1:41 citizen's arrest I would I would just call it in hey I'm not trying to be that guy I'm not a rogue yeah dude I ████ always think about being a hero in situations like that like after that I would be thinking about like imagine if I catch him and I grab him and I ████ pin him down I call it comps and I'm like a hero I can't one day because that's like you could lowkey be a bully and then it's not you're doing it for justice oh Justice oh true yeah that's true cuz I don't really care I just want to ████ somebody up let's give a reason to ████ someone up yeah that's how gun gun owners feel wish somebody broke into this house ████ give me a reason to kill ████ there's one change that they did make to the amember alert I wouldn't say actually it's a change to the amember alert they still going to keep it exactly the way it is but they've now added What's called the ebony alert what's that ebony alert don't like

2:31 and I sorry so it just plays that song instead of the beat it's an eony ebony yes it's still going to be the same sound like the you know yeah they recently passed this new law that creates the ebony alert it's a basically the same system but it will inform you if it's a black child that's missing well that's racist what's the difference yeah what's the difference a child wait why do they need to do that but what are they going to call an a for people to be for people to be like this a black guy oh well so if a is that what that's going to happen some ████ white people were going to be like no it's all false alarm is it cuz they want you to look for a black girl or like a black kid I don't here's the thing like it's hard to tell if this is directly correlated to what would be the solution for the

3:21 problem but the existing problem is that they um like the black community feels that there's less attention when it's a black child missing that there's less that's done about it is that true but I thought Amber Alerts go for any missing it does it does but now it's like emphas think that when when an amber alert goes off they're thinking of white kids so then you're just looking for white kids all day and you're like ah there's nobody missing can can can I tell you this why do I think that it's always white kids like right now I just realized like holy ████ I never thought it was a Black or Mexican I always thought it was always a white kid do they even tell you the the race cuz usually it's just the car right isn't that what it is like it's it's the car the color and then like the license plate isn't that what people on the lookout for anyway yeah mainly the car mainly the car yeah cuz that's what the well I don't know yeah at least that's

4:12 from what I it never gives a description of the victim or like a picture or nothing like changing the alert color doesn't extra motivate me or less motivate me to look around I'm cuz I'm still looking just for the car if it's like a Nissan Sentra red I'm like okay yeah cuz if it's an ebony alert our people are going to go oh it's a black kid we better ████ actually go that's what that's what I'm saying that's what I'm saying what are they expecting we're going to do I think it's what it says here is that advocacy groups and policy makers criticize the Amber Alert system for overlooking missing children who are black so there are they is there some type of thing where if there was a missing black kid they don't even do an amber alert I think you will see Amber Alerts for kids of different races but what they're saying is that there's a larger percentage of children that are missing that are black but it doesn't

5:03 reflect in the alerts that go out if that makes sense so isn't that a problem is a problem problem yeah isn't that a problem not with the color of the alert but with the reporting system it might be it it it could be yeah is this a separate group that wants to specialize in it or is it just like they're like have a separate thing I think an ad a separate advocacy group pitched or like uh proposed this and California said okay we'll do it of course California CU California yeah I get it if like I get California Vegas let's say like it dies it dies let's say the black community was like I need something we need something of our own as an alert so they have a group an organization that's strictly going black kids missing all right oh you know and then and then they

5:55 they're like their own uh Community I don't think that's what it is oh never mind I think that was a great rant though that was a that would make that would make sense right yeah that's what makes sense it would it's like it's like being a ████ a volunteer local fire department or some ████ cuz you're like there's no fire department in this community and then so they specialize in neighborhood watch yeah basically ████ I I think it's also I could be wrong but I feel like I read somewhere that ebony alert applies to Children of color generally so it might not just be black just like it might be like still an interesting name yeah say it's targeting like the racial disparity I think it's any kid who's lost yeah we just send alert it's like an alert let's just use Amber Alert doesn't ████ matter the color it's more like yeah cuz the problem isn't the color of the alert the problem is are

6:45 they reporting more or alarming enough like if there are 10,000 kids missing are there 10,000 alerts right now it seems like there's 10,000 kids missing maybe only 500 alerts go out so let's get the alert numbers up rather than change the color yeah I don't know how I feel about things being separated by color it's making me feel more separated yeah it really does like I get like they need more people asking for more help but it's like I feel it's making people separate more but what what I don't get is like in California right cuz this is in California yes we have whole neighborhoods of just black just Mexican just Asian where the police the PO politicians everybody is that so it's like it's not like the 1950s where all the cops are and they're not giving to your community like the people of your community are

7:35 running the so if there's like black kids missing or whatever like I don't think it's happening in white neighborhoods usually people are living in their own neighborhoods think about that way where the cops and everybody are you know people of your ethnicity usually now but what if you're missing from let's say you're a black child missing from your black neighborhood and they've now taken you out of that neighborhood I don't even know how the Amber Alert works but I don't know how changing the color of the alert makes that more more priority yeah I feel like if it's just the Amber there everyone's usually on the lookout just real quick you know when you see the sign on the freeway you go oh ████ it's a ████ Sienna or whatever you look I don't know any human being that would be like it's black who cares or Asian orx or whatever yeah that's ████ crazy ironically I I

8:27 believe those people might exist that's what I'm saying now you just gave those people an option to be like I don't give a damn black kid like you just gave him a voice to be like yeah when it's Amber Alert he would have been like hey that car is one of them alerts and finds out it a black kid damn it I helped them out cuz at the end of the day it's just trying to identify the vehicle yeah at this point if you said it was an ebony alert I'd be looking for a black car cuz that's you know what I'm saying it's true that it does make you're right it does make more sense to not say what you're looking for yeah because then there's no Prejudice right how about what are we going to do we we need our own too as yeah we need to have one like the Chingling or something Chingling the Ringling dude into the category of ebony alert though right if that's meant to just be like a person of

9:18 color but we're not eony what is it though what would it be that's what that's what makes it strange is that it's it's almost like oh here here's my what I think it is I don't think it's so much as a solution to the problem as is trying to create awareness of the disparity they just want people to know that like 39% of kids that were missing were black but the number of Amber Alerts that went out were more swayed towards like other races I think they just want like the attention of like check this ████ out now we got your attention because they you know they passed it oh yeah maybe from here they can make a different solution to it but for sure like we already know Common Sense will tell you it's not going to make more kids get rescued you specify who's I think are you guys are you guys a part of a ring Community just just the other day you know how they're like they they post ████ right there was a boy just chilling there was like whose kid

10:08 is this and everybody you know how you could comment right and everybody was like call the cops and then the next person whose boy is this oh man now you know who lives in that house hey boy scary dude I also think they Market if that is the true cause they're marketing to the wrong people they need to Market to themselves cuz you know like when Asians beat up remember when we're all getting beat up yes we still are so we're still getting beat up right when we're getting beat up there's no point in going like yo everybody stop beating us up cuz we're still getting beat up what actually worked it was like stuff like Ron like you go to our community hey don't walk around by yourselves right this is what we're going to do so we don't get beat up cuz the people that want to beat us up are going to keep beating us up so for those kids they need to have their own support system in that Community hey people are coming to

10:59 ████ take our kids and we need to ████ stand up for ourselves or do something about it versus hey everyone's coming to take our kids but they're not the perpetrators you know so you got to like empower the people that are getting ████ up and or getting the short end of the stick protect the People by the way I loved your PSA uh post that you did for that when when the AG people were getting ████ up B goes yo I'm going to ████ you up and I remember going like damn B that's uh oh and that made me be like you know what I'm going to I'm going to not want to ████ up an Asian guy no more that was it that was the one yeah so everybody he did that I was like damn he's that angry he's going to ████ someone up angry I don't even remember making a video you I'm going to beat your ████ ass sub or something like that and I was like wow I would never see something like that oh so they do they do provide a lot of stats that backup that there is a problem that

11:49 maybe most people don't think about I guess like the the I didn't know that yeah I didn't know that either I guess like there's a lot of more human trafficking risks for some black kids from certain communities and it's kind of getting swept I mean it all sort of gets swept on the road right I know like but like this we didn't know about they I heard the stat were like immigrant kids too if they don't speak English and whatever they're more um likely to get stolen kidnapped and stuff yeah they should make a Netflix documentary called ebony alert and that's that's what's going to sure hit cuz it says that 40% of sex trafficking victims identify as black women 40% damn so what's the other 60 and did you hear about how many kids miss are missing from the border you know oh yeah

12:39 come across it's like okay we have like 10,000 kids that come through or whatever and then it's like oh wait but only 6,000 get documented where the other 4,000 yep it's true I mean when you look at what was that girl that um I noticed this when when um remember that girl the Gabriel or whatever that girl that got lost in that van with her boyfriend yeah poto poto remember that yeah yeah yeah people recognize that like crazy so cuz it's true because honestly when when I see these things in the news and Amber smart whatever right or whatever all these girls that like white blond girls yeah they it's true they do it's a national conversation but in my neighborhood when I was growing up there was two ████ that got lost that were Latinas and there were no National so it's true they don't get was it on Channel 34 was it on what was it on Channel 3 tundo picked it up yeah tundo

13:32 America loves those stories especially if it's a white blonde girl because I think it it makes sense to like what America kind of most so it's like they could relate she also has a big following too yeah and they're they're influencers yeah but I think that's been happening because it's like just human nature to feel more relatable and closer to people that look like you so that's why they get all the attention but then also that's not a good example of white people that got saved like they still both died you know what I mean like they they didn't try harder to help them they got ████ both them it actually made it made the investigation worse exactly yeah it actually made it worse but then here like I didn't know this statistic it says that like out of all juvenile prostitution arrests 57% are black whoa

14:22 wait juvenile arrest that's more than a half yeah juvenile how are you going to arrest a juvenile for being a hooker when they're probably not doing it for fun that's exactly yeah but that's the ████ up they're a victim dude yeah for sure like lock them up it really seems like this is just like a big Beacon so hopefully like something gets done that has more action hopefully it doesn't stop at this cuz obviously if this is where it all ends it's kind of not going to change I don't think so yeah best of luck with whatever uh is next for this more awareness yeah okay well I'll keep a lookout I turned mine off [Music]

15:20 actually

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