Although her stance of reparation does not change the structures of institutionalizedracism, it does address a way of seeking a justice that not many politicians or citizens often discuss.
As has already been noted in another comment, rioters in Paris were economically, not religiously, motivated, yet media on both shores and both sides of the political divide overemphasized the ethnicity and religion of the rioters while persistently failing, as it appears they are now doing RE England, to explore the institutionalizedracism and the socio-economic conditions that fomented unrest.
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.