Troubling.

On Thursday police in Detroit issued an Amber Alert for a missing two year old girl, Tangena Hussain.

Last night the Amber Alert was still flashing across the television screen and this morning I checked the paper to see if there had been a happy ending to the story. Or even an ending. I had to really dig into the website to even find a mention of the little girl and that is so troubling.

If this were a white little girl, especially one from the suburbs, her picture would be on the front page of the newspaper and eventually on the national news.

I realize this is nothing new, like pointing out that sometimes, people are.....[whisper] racist. SHOCKING!

I still can't get over how much less air time a poor, immigrant missing child story gets.

Additionally, the whole story sounds like a child abuse case more than a missing child case. She was left with her mother's boyfriend of five months while the mother went to work. The boyfriend says he stopped at a gas station to buy gum on his way to pick up the mother from work, leaving the little girl in the car.

When he came back out the little girl was gone. Instead of freaking the fuck out, he drove to pick up the girl's mother from work and then came back with her to look for the little girl.

There's a language barrier here (Police had trouble communicating with the couple) and also, maybe, a lack of knowing how things work in the United States. Still I have grave concerns that this isn't a missing child story, but a child abuse story. The burn scar reported on her face gives me even less confidence that police are looking for a living little girl.

This is Tangena if you've seen her please contact Detroit Police 313-596-1240.