Unless you watch nothing but the Weather Channel, you probably know about the missing Alabama teen in Aruba. Natalee Holloway, who has been missing for over three weeks now, drew national attention when she disappeared on a senior class trip to Aruba. This is indeed tragic but it makes me wonder about all the other missing person cases that go unnoticed every year. Especially those in the minority communities. You have probably never heard of Tamika Huston. This week marks the one-year anniversary of the 23-year-old African American’s disappearance. When her aunt, Rebekah Howard a public professional in Miami, Fl., reported her missing she tried to get the national media interested in the case. No such luck. Does the media care only about missing white women? Holloway, like “runaway bride” Jennifer Wilbanks, murder victims Laci Peterson and Lori Hacking, kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart and several others, got significant air time in recent years, is white. One wonders if the media sensation led to their cases being solved quicker. “It’s stunning sometimes how hard it is to get the national media interested when it’s a minority” said Philip Leman, co-executive producer of America’s Most Wanted and former editor of USA TODAY. Why would national media ignore minorities? Is it the lack of diversity in the newsroom? The American Society of Newspaper Editors estimates 13 percent of print journalists are minorities. In TV newsrooms, minorities make up about 22 percent. These are very low numbers considering that about 32 percent of the United States population is non-white or Hispanic. It is not like we can say that blacks are just not missing. In fact, As of May 1 African Americans accounted for 13,860 active missing person cases in the FBI’s database, with 29, 382 white. I am by no means saying that Natalee Holloway’s story should not get national attention. I am just speaking for the thousands of other missing racial minorities who are often left in the dust, as more telegenic stories are brought to the forefront. We see this in another recent case, where Edgar Ray Killen was convicted in the manslaughter of three Civil Rights workers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. One wonders what would have happened if all of Killen’s victims been black like Chaney, and not white like Schwerner and Goodman.