Now Imagine She's White

"Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken body soaked in their urine, soaked in their semen, soaked in her blood, left to die. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine she's white." -Jake Tyler Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) A Time to Kill

That was a line that brought tears to the eyes of many who watched A Time to Kill, however it is also a line that could be used to describe the real-life story of Virginian woman, Megan Williams.

Her story has been conveniently ignored by far from the media in the states. A woman, kidnapped, tortured, raped and held hostage for a week receives no cover. Although our media seems more interested in which celeb is pregnant, on crack or has DUIed, I have to think that Megan Williams is going ignored because she is black. Her story just isn't important enough in a white-ran America.

This leave us having make our own news. We have to host marches like we did for the Jena Six to even get someone to look at us. What happened to Megan was an outrage and although her violators have been convicted I can't help but think that things would be different if the races were turned and it was a white female being violated by six black individuals. Could you imaging that? I don't think that we would be able to leave our houses if that was the case.

Respect to all those media sources who gave coverage to the atrocity that occurred.