Opinion | Ronda Racha Penrice: HBO's 'Atlanta's Missing and Murdered' series reveals how little black lives matter. - NBCNewsTHINK
— who publicly reopened the investigation last year, some 40 years later — herself grew up knowing that fear.
And there are mothers still living today who have no idea who truly murdered their children. “I don’t think it’s right for all these kids to be killed in this city and nobody was concerned about it,” says Catherine Leach in the very first episode. “We loved our children and it really hurts.
Even after Jackson successfully appealed directly to President Ronald Reagan for FBI involvement, the indifference persisted. Interviewed by HBO, former FBI agent Mike McComas steadfastly contends one mother, who he claims was a prostitute, brutally stabbed her child and confessed — despite never being arrested nor indicted for murder. Rumblings of possible Klan involvement were also largely swept aside. An exploration of this angle is one of the docuseries’ biggest bombshells.
Reparations debates are often focused on slavery, but we don't have to go back nearly so far to see the impact of institutionalized racism.
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