James Baldwin’s book about the Atlanta child murders is less about the deaths of Black children than it is about their lives—about the violence and neglect that too often afflict them.
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For Lowe, the experience was, in the end, a bit like agreeing to be the attaché of the Cat in the Hat. Mercurial, easily distracted, and demanding, Baldwin passed much of his time in Atlanta ordering room service, getting pedicures, visiting with friends, taking calls from the likes of Coretta Scott King and Andrew Young, and drinking a lot of Stolichnaya.
Baldwin took a particular interest in this search for connections, which he saw as both an understandable human impulse and also a pathological way of thinking about black life.
That stop might’ve gone nowhere, and hardly seemed like a break, but, two days later, the body of a twenty-seven-year-old man washed up near where Williams had been questioned. After he failed a polygraph test, police linked hairs and fibres from his home and car to the body of another adult murder victim; the prosecution would later argue that similar fibres were also on the bodies and at the crime scenes of some of the murdered children.
In that context, what look like conspiracy theories about who was killing black children—pedophiles, the Ku Klux Klan—seem more likely than the notion proposed by the police, that a single black suspect could have committed all twenty-some murders. The point, for Baldwin, was precisely that many different things had killed those children; their deaths were overdetermined, not aberrant.
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