What's up everybody and welcome back to Black Rogue One after thoughts. I, of course,

I'm your host tomorrow and I am here with my husband and my co-host Jason. What's up yo?

So this week we did a missing person case and you guys know, by listen to this show that

missing person stories are always harder to tell because there's usually not a lot of information

and the information that we have usually doesn't really tell us very much and that's part of the

problem. So at the end of story, it was one of those stories there wasn't a ton of information but

a lot of the information that we did have was a big thanks to her family, her sister in particular

you know, started a website and keeps the website up to date. It has information about Athena and

she really led the charge to get her story into the mainstream media and that's how it was featured

on True Crime Daily and Date Line and things like that and you know, unfortunately that's what a

lot of Black families in the situation have to do is be their own advocates because they have

such a hard time getting these stories elevated into the press and it really takes an effort on

their part and every family doesn't have that in them and that's why there are so many stories

where there's not a lot of information and you can't blame the family because unless you've been

in that position, you never really know what it's like to go through that and so you can't judge

and say, well, if it was me, I would do X, Y and Z. Well, you know, it's always what we would do or

what we, you know, may do but you never know until you're in that situation and you know,

every family is not, everybody's not on social media, everybody's not social media savvy, everybody

doesn't know even where to start in terms of trying to get attention to cases but when they do know

and they are able to, it does make a difference. It does, it does make a difference and it helps to

get these stories into the press in a way that they, they wouldn't on their own and so a lot of

the information that we found out about Athena's story this week was thanks to her, her family and

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