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M Moore has going further now... but its not just him.. and its not just Flint..
"Back in December, before the crisis became big national news, Moore tweeted:
This is a racial killing. Flint MI is 60% black. When u knowingly poison a black city, u r committing a version of genocide #ArrestGovSnyder
This month, with investigations brewing and more outraged calls for accountability, Moore reiterated his point:
If this were elsewhere, & the white leader blocked a black city's clean water supply &made them drink poison, we'd call it ethnic cleansing."
Ten years later, in 2015, a HuffPost analysis found a correlation between cities with high populations of black residents and elevated lead poisoning rates.
http://news.yahoo.com/michael-moore-just-nailed-no-173900965.html#
No one knowingly did this but that won't stop MM from lying and claiming they did. What surprises me is why anyone would listen to that asshole or quote the bullshit he spews.
do you really think that they would dare do that in a mostly white city???? I think not (and the facts back that up).. and you cant change the facts that cities with high populations of black residents have elevated lead poisoning rates.. Poor black people tend to get shit on here in the good ole USA..
You're still a racist.
Since the Karegondi Water authority is supplying water to the entire county, not to mention 8 other townships and villages - yes, yes I do think race had not a DAMN thing to do with it.
Whether its the pension collapse in Chicago; the crime collapse in detroit or stockton, bankruptcy in Atlantic city, or lead poisoning in flint, those asshole republicans know how to hire competent engineers; they know not to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. You want a scape goat - look to democrat corruption.
Dude, I dont care if a politician is an R or a D, they are all shite, they are all out for themselves and their friends. Pointing out that black people are treated horribly here doesnt make me (or MM or the article writer) a racist, i am simply stating facts on the way life is for them here in your country.. I am on their side, imo black people have reason to be angry..
Yes, it does. You asked if white people would be treated the same way. I gave you a whole county of white people, and 8 townships that were treated exactly the same way.
You are a racist because you insist on injecting race superfluously into the situation.
It is EXACTLY racist when black people vote for black people solely because they are black- even when they have a history of not actually benefitting their constituents. Marion Barry; Alcyee Hastings; Cash-in-the-box Jefferson.
It is idiotic to make the repubicans out to be racists (as MM insists on doing) when it was 41 years of unfettered democrat rule that put lead in the water.
It is racism to make this about race - when it really was nothing other than democrats profiting again and again and again on the backs of a supine electorate. One that believes your screed that "whitey" is the cause of all their evils.
No one is denying that black people - in this instance - have the right to be angry. But there anger shouldn't be directed at "whitey" it should be directed squarely at the people that did this.
Be angry at the unions that drove GM out of business. Be angry at a flint governance that insisted on unsustainable police, fire, and city employee perks.
Be angry at an engineering firm that was incompetent. Be angry at a water board that delivered unsafe water. Be angry at the EPA that allowed people to be poisoned for 8 months.
Hell, I'm angry FOR these people - no one in america should be drinking unsafe water. But this has NOTHING to do with racism.
And I'm angry for the democrat politicians that lied to these people year after year; I'm angry for a political theology that says "elect me and I'll take care of you," instead of teaching people that government is a government of men that fail. You first be responsible for your life - and then keep a watchful eye and demand that government uphold its responsibilities.
I'm angry when poor black people pay property taxes and sales taxes and then democrat politicians fail to test the water. I'm angry when a city floats bonds for a water project and then treats mayors and water authority people as if they are superstars at the public trough.
I'm angry when people like Kwasei Mfume treat the tax money like their own private piggy bank.
I'm angry at people like you that think the other side is a bunch of racist, misogynistic assholes - when we care just as much about poor people but who would rather government was our servants rather than our masters. That government was a civil service where people realized they would never get rich, but would have a meaningful safe job, where they could make the world better. As opposed to people hat get rich in public service.
How do the clintons - get rich on public service. How do police retire earning $300,000 per ear. How do fire EMT's make over 150 a year working 4 days a month. How does a NY Teacher retire with a pension of $561,286 a year? You're damn right I"m angry.
These people are ROBBING from the poor - all the while mouthing liberal platitudes.
I reserve the same ire for republicans. Bernanke gets no pass just because he was Obama's flunky. QE was nothing more than letting the banks borrow money at .25% and buy treasuries paying 2.5%. And the fed printed 2 trillion dollars backing up the rich sonuvabitch bankers and hedge fund managers. I'm angry when colleges put a students into an English lit degree and 150K in debt they can never repay.
So bullshit on your racism. Bullshit on you calling this a "whitey" issue. Bullshit that this is republicans screwing the little man again.
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