(TSN): California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into Senate Bill 673, legislation that allows California Highway Patrol to specify the race of young missing black people also known as the “Ebony Alert.”
Critics have called the law racist for pin-pointing a specific racial group, but Black abductions have often been ignored and the law is intended to bridge the gap between missing Blacks and other groups of people.
Patrol agents will be allowed to use the emergency alert system in certain demographic areas more populated with Black. They will also be authorized send alert messages on digital highway if a vehicle is involved in a missing person incident.
In California, distinct alert notifications already in use. However, the Ebony alert is the first to identify abducted Blacks. Last year the state established the Feather Alert system, which is used for suspicious or inexplicable disappearances of indigenous people. Th Silver Alerts are used there for elderly or mentally disabled people. Ebony Alerts will be used exclusively for Black children and women between the ages of 12 and 25. The general Amber Alert for missing children of all races will continue to be used.
Some conservatives see the new alert system as racist because it does not apply to White children. This was the particular complaint of tbut they made this a Black/White issue by not identifying another racial group.
If none of the other groups that are distinguished by a common characteristics are racist then how is the Ebony alert racist?
BELOW: A Twitter user criticizes the Ebony Alert as racist.
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