Facing the Music in Flint
The Flint water crisis and the poisoning of black children is yet another example of violence waged against African-Americans each and every day.
Sometimes, the crimes take the form of bullets (from police or otherwise) riddling innocent black bodies. Other times, the acts of torture are protracted, prolonged and gradual — like Flint, Michigan.
Someone needs to go to prison for it.
The predominantly black children of Flint are inflicted with Third World problems in the wealthiest nation on earth, in a region surrounded by water from the Great Lakes.
Instead, they were provided with swill, waste water that even GM refused to mess with because it was corroding the car parts. But it was fine for black children, because some officials may view them as thugs and animals anyway or likely to end up in jail.
Lead poisoning will haunt these girls and boys for the rest of their lives.
This disaster demonstrates that, once again, black people are sitting targets, accused of being a criminal element yet suffering as perpetual victims of crime who never find justice. A few days ago, seeking clarity on the situation and hoping to vent the outrage and frustrations of people out there, I decided to tweet about it here.
And based on the feedback I received, I’ve decided to expand on this idea.
There is no shortage of black people, particularly black men, who are in prison over nonviolent drug offenses, targeted exclusively for arrest, prosecution and prison, even as whites and blacks consume such substances, including marijuana, at similar rates. Billions of dollars are wasted on millions of race-based marijuana arrests, according to the ACLU, with blacks 3.73 times more likely Facing the Music in Flint - LA Progressive:
