Lock up your daughters

by Prometheus 6
December 6, 2005 - 5:29pm.
on Race and Identity

It's some fucked up shit happens to women, and I can't help but feel she'd be just another vanished hooker if she hung out with white guys. 

Did gangster-rap lifestyle claim Utah woman?
Another world: The Payson native was working as a call girl when she was shot dead in northern California
By Nate Carlisle
The Salt Lake Tribune   

Police warned Lee Danae Laursen the pimps and would-be rappers she associated with were dangerous.

Some detectives offered her money so she could return home to Utah.

But Laursen - a former child care worker from Payson caught up in prostitution and a deadly feud in the rap music world - ignored their advice and declined their cash.

Less than three months later, the 21-year-old was found dead in the northern California town of Fairfield, shot twice in the head.

Fairfield police Sgt. Dan Pitcher said detectives have at least two theories for why Laursen was killed: her involvement with budding rappers or her work as a prostitute.

If she was killed for her connections to the music world, police say, it would make Laursen the fourth homicide victim in a series of crimes that spans three states.

"I don't know if she was brainwashed or what. But the lifestyle she ended up involved in was so far removed from the lifestyle she lived in Utah," said Todd Hendrix, a Las Vegas Metropolitan police detective investigating two homicides that may be linked to Laursen's.

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Submitted by Rachel (not verified) on December 6, 2005 - 6:07pm.

OMG, this should read, "vulnerable White women spends too much time with Black men."  I love how they say this would happen in Utah.  Give me a break. I think that is a great example of colorblind racism.  You never have to say Black men, but everybody knows what they mean.

I need to save this and use it in class 

Submitted by Quaker in a Basement on December 6, 2005 - 7:01pm.

I can't help but feel she'd be just another vanished hooker if she hung out with white guys.

I'll go you one better: she'd be just another vanished hooker if she wasn't from Utah.

Submitted by gary (not verified) on December 7, 2005 - 12:56am.

White women losing their minds (and lives) in the wilds of color is BIG old news. Just yesterday the NYT busted a verbal gasket about the purported threat of white female suicide bombers, which has long had a science-fictional FEMBOT vibe.

 (Here's a self interested link to a blogposting on the subject.)

 White sexual hysteria never goes out of style, it just attaches to new objects.

Submitted by ptcruiser on December 7, 2005 - 1:40am.

"I don't know if she was brainwashed or what. But the lifestyle she ended up involved in was so far removed from the lifestyle she lived in Utah..."

Her lifestyle in Utah couldn 't have been that far removed from what she was involved in Las Vegas.

 

Submitted by r@d@r (not verified) on December 7, 2005 - 4:59pm.

my friends who have escaped Utah culture tell me you pretty much have to be brainwashed to stay in it.

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on December 7, 2005 - 6:48pm.

I wasn't gonna say that...

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