It’s been a week since her disappearance, but Joy Reid still hasn’t discussed Miya Marcano.
Reid went on her television program, The ReidOut, to lament how the media spends so much time reporting on Gabby Petito, a missing social media star who is white, but ignores missing women of color. Reid proclaimed this phenomenon “missing white woman syndrome.”
Reid is quick to make anything a racial issue, as in this case. But as I have noted previously, Reid seems to forget she is part of the media and even has her own television show, on which she can discuss anything she wants. In the time since Reid went on her rant about Petito, she has not bothered to mention genuinely interesting news stories about women of color who have gone missing.
Marcano, a Hispanic 19-year-old who has been missing since Sept. 24, was last seen at her apartment complex in Orlando. In the week Marcano has been missing, Reid has not mentioned her name once. She can’t even be bothered to spare the poor girl a tweet.
This should not surprise anyone, as Reid is a race-hustler by trade. She only cares about creating controversy to have viewers tune in to her program. Actions speak louder than words — or inaction, as the case may be.
Reid’s frustration with “missing white woman syndrome” was apparently performative. With an audience of a little over one million viewers each night, Reid could have informed millions of people about Miya Marcano. But she has more important things to discuss, like the perfidy of Kyrsten Sinema (ironically, another white woman) or NBA players who refuse vaccines.
Reid exploited a tragedy to create a racial issue when none should have existed. It is important to criticize and call out such behavior continuously.
