Although her stance of reparation does not change the structures of institutionalized racism, it does address a way of seeking a justice that not many politicians or citizens often discuss.

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Jeter escaped poverty and oppression in the south, only to head to the urban north where other forms of institutionalized poverty and racism and classism existed that would force her to make hard, terrible choices no mother should have to make.

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