As the mystery of Asha Degree’s disappearance continues many theories will spring up to complicate the existing evidence that there is. But the disappearance of Asha Degree is an important case to advocate for for numerous reasons. First Asha’s family deserves the truth on what happened to her. It has been 17 long years since her disappearance. More importantly it has been 17 long years without much evidence as to what might have happened to her.  This case needs more advocacy in the national media for the sake of gathering more evidence. There is a chance that someone knows what happened to Asha, but our society’s treatment of cases such as these hinders that answers that can be ascribed from case. In a Jet magazine interview Asha’s mother states “Most definitely. The White ladies are on every channel. We were on local channels. The only reason The Montel Williams Show knew anything is that the coach’s sister went online and she reached out to all of them. But only Montel responded. Once the local channels found out we were going to The Montel Williams Show, one of them flew up, and they flew a reporter up, too. Then we did the interview with that local channel. Missing White children get more attention. I don’t understand why. I don’t try to speculate. I know if you ask them they will say it’s not racial. Oh, really? I’m not going to argue because I have common sense.”. Whether you agree whether or not race plays a part in the case It is clear that this played a factor in her not receiving the much-needed coverage in finding her daughter.

Rocque, Anslem Samuel. “Black & Missing: Asha Degree – Her Mother Speaks.” JetMag.com. N.p., 08 Nov. 2013. Web. 26 July 2017.

Tibiafinger. “Asha Degree Walk Feb 13 2009.” YouTube. YouTube, 21 Feb. 2009. Web. 26 July 2017.

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