IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Racist murders in Atlanta

Socialist Challenge No. 195, 30 April 1981 · p. 6 of the scan · 274 words

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IT A time when America spending $10bn on the co shuttle and giving murderous Salvadorgoes unsolved.

series murders lanta Georgia, was found.

of cist violence that is part parcel of the daily lives of de of colour living in the "sod' world.

the Federal of Investigation, and cians in the White House added to the grief of black their theories on motives for the murders.

They suggested that dain youth were child prolutes, mentally retarded they were 'street children' family and esumably 'deserved their The official theory on the IS equally nsulting oice have repeatedly stated the killer is a black male. o black men are being harassOne FBI agent has claimed •t in tour of the deaths the rents were the killers and in the killer was a amosexual black man.

Black people have refused take this sitting down. Froups set up by blacks across •steinsed es that have brought tens of sands on the streets nding that declared be This would bring ral funds to be used in the ch for the killers).

Camille Bell, chairperson of Murders, er of one of the murdered s, spoke at a recent local She emphasised that the of in cutbacks and growing violence.

JP Blair, a black mother of are four, said during a memoria service attended Washington DC: 'I think there.

omething racial going and it doesn't stop in Atlanta *I really think there are peo. and they lie hate backs and they believe destroy us it, but that is my honest feel ing. MILLIONS KILLER MISSILES NOTHING TO FIGHT CHILD KILLERS

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