MTV reality star Valerie Fairman’s life ended tragically on Wednesday when she died of a drug overdose. The disease of addiction has claimed the life of thousands of young Americans this year, but the network that made her famous has decided to dedicate their time and attention on more important issues, like white privilege.
Fairman starred in season two of 16 and Pregnant in 2010, showing the harsh reality of trying to be a teen mother. Yet, her life behind the cameras was even more dramatic; she battled addiction and was arrested for prostitution.
TMZ broke the news of her passing, reporting that she died of an overdose at a friend’s house in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. While no one reported what drug Fairman was abusing, medical personal noted that they needed containers for needles.
The 16 and Pregnant star is just the latest and most famous person to die of the opioid epidemic. The CDC reported that 3,264 people died of drug overdose in Pennsylvania last year and many experts believe that number to climb significantly in 2016.
Yet rather than highlighting Fairman’s struggle as a message to young people to avoid drugs, MTV decided to spend time on phantom menaces to appease social justice warriors like white privilege.
MTV released a video targeting white men and what they need to do improve themselves.
Rather than virtue signaling and telling the world how progressive they are, maybe MTV could spend time actually helping millennials who could end up with the same fate as Fairman.
