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Killer Water (Polemic) by Alison Ross
Mmmm, lead-tainted water. Aren't you just dying to drink some?
Well, now you can! You and your kids can grab a flight to Flint, Michigan,
and drink all the lead-contaminated H20 your heart desires.
What's that, you say? You're not poor and black and so you don't fit the
demographic for the lead-water-swilling fiesta? You're not privileged
enough to gulp down formerly-clear fluids that are sludgy and reeking?
Hm, you may have a point.
Governor Snyder, of course, loves poor black people. So much so that,
under the guise of saving costs, he cut residents off from the healthy,
treated Lake Huron water and instead allowed untreated water from the
Flint River to flow from Flint faucets. The "plan" was to treat the water
from a source plagued by pollution from the auto industry! But guess
what? The pipes became corroded and the stripped lead deposited right
into water glasses - the same ones that poor black kids were drinking from.
Can I get a collective "Yum!" up here in this motherfucker?
Only 8,500 children were affected. Just a handful, really, suffering from
high lead toxicity in their blood. It ain't no thang at all! Sure, they're poor
and black. Sure, Synder ADMITS he knew about the lead toxicity beginning
in the summer of 2015. As we've already established, Snyder LOVES
African-Americans, especially ones who are impoverished, with no real
voice in, well, anything!
Never mind that citizens were complaining about the noxious odor and
color of the water. Never mind that doctors were claiming the water was
not safe for consumption. Never mind that Snyder claims he would bathe