Yes. Michael Moore is right in proclaiming the Flint water poisoning
to be a Racial Crime. But don't make the mistake of believing that
just because some of us White Folk live in White Folk Land, that it
can't happen to us.
What is going down in Flint will happen in every corner of our Land,
except those corners where the Elite hide behind gated and guarded
walls.
Remember those pesky Red Savages? You know, the ones who dared to
think that just because they lived on this Land that they had a right
to do so? We beat them down, with God's Blessing, and broke them. We
shoved them on worthless land, and when some of that land turned out
to be rich with oil, we shoved them onto even poorer land. We freed
the Black slaves and shoved them into the poorest parts of town and
countryside, in what became known as Defecto Slavery. We imported
Chinese labor to build our mighty railroads, and then shoved them back
into the Pacific Ocean or into ghettos. We brought in those "dumb
Spics" to pick our crops, watch our children and care for our estates,
and then called them a menace to our American way of life.
And all the time some of our people bought this "Smoke and Mirrors" malarkey.
Some of our white workers decided that they'd be more like their Rich
Masters if they wore white shirts and neckties and put a shine on
their shoes. They decided that they were "better" than their blue
collar brothers, and they turned up their noses at such Blue Collar
ideas as Labor Unions and Community Forums. And all the while their
Masters were busy figuring out how to shake the last dollar out of
their Sears Sucker Pants. Then came Ronald Reagan, that hero of the
"Honest to Goodness Real First Class Americans". But the "Middle
Class" did not seem to notice that they were working longer and harder
to maintain their suburban homes, filled with all the gadgets that
proved them to be better than their blue collar brothers. Then came
the latest crash. This time it actually shook the remaining Middle
Class. Homes were abandoned. People lost all that they had invested
in the hands of their Ruling Class Masters. And in return for having
it all taken away, they were told that they simply had poor financial
habits. They should have known that they were living beyond their
means. The victim was to blame for being victimized!
And still Americans have not learned that they and their final
belongings are on the auction block. And still the Ruling Class
believes that this, "Divide and conquer" can go on forever. Rather
than sitting down and preventing the coming fury, we all go on as if
it will never end. But the end is in sight. And it will be ugly.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/23/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Moore writes: "The people of my hometown, Flint, Mich., are being poisoned.
Let me not mince words: This is a racial crime. If it were happening in
another country, we'd call it an ethnic cleansing. Flint is a very poor,
majority African-American city, and the Republican governor of Michigan,
Rick Snyder, knows they have no political power, no lobbyists, no money."
Michael Moore. (photo: Michael Moore/Facebook)
Flint Poisoning Is a 'Racial Crime'
By Michael Moore, TIME
23 January 16
The people of my hometown are being poisoned
The people of my hometown, Flint, Mich., are being poisoned. Let me not
mince words: This is a racial crime. If it were happening in another
country, we'd call it an ethnic cleansing. Flint is a very poor, majority
African-American city, and the Republican governor of Michigan, Rick
Snyder,
knows they have no political power, no lobbyists, no money. And they didn't
vote for him. So when the residents of Flint, many of whom work two or
three
jobs for minimum wage, complained about the levels of lead in their water
and told the governor their children were getting sick-two years ago!-he
didn't have to listen.
Everybody knows that this would not have happened in predominantly white
Michigan cities like West Bloomfield, or Grosse Pointe, or Ann Arbor.
Everybody knows that if there had been two years of taxpayer complaints,
and
then a year of warnings from scientists and doctors, this would have been
fixed in those towns.
This started when the governor turned Flint's authority over to an
"emergency manager," ostensibly to fix the city's finances. In order to
save
a few million dollars, the manager and the governor's office came up with
the bright idea to unhook the city's water supply from Lake Huron and tap
into the Flint River.
In the 20th century, General Motors made Flint the ultimate company town,
and over the next 100 years the Flint River was turned into a sewer.
Environmental experts warned the political leaders of the dangers of using
the Flint River as a water source. They didn't listen.
So here we are. People need to stop saying that Flint was using Detroit's
water. It was pure water from Lake Huron, the third largest body of
freshwater in the world. A toxic water crisis is the last thing that should
happen here.
The American middle class was built in Flint. Our grandparents knew that if
they worked hard and the company prospered, they prospered. That was the
American Dream, and it spread from Flint to the rest of the nation. Then
around 1980, General Motors, a company that was making billions, figured
out
that it could make even more money by sending jobs to the nonunion South or
overseas. This halved Flint's population and brought along unemployment,
poverty, alcoholism, broken families and other ills. The crime rate
skyrocketed. Wall Street came in and cut Flint's credit rating, making it
impossible for Flint to recover, to attract jobs, to fix its infrastructure
and schools. Flint went through a three-decade economic and social assault.
Those who could get off the sinking ship-myself included-escaped. And those
who were abandoned and left behind? They got their water poisoned. And when
the governor found out, he kept quiet and let the poor of Flint continue
drinking the poison. Marie Antoinette would've been proud. Except this
time,
no one offered any cake. "Let them drink the Flint River" has such a nice
ring.
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Michael Moore. (photo: Michael Moore/Facebook)
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Flint Poisoning Is a 'Racial Crime'
By Michael Moore, TIME
23 January 16
The people of my hometown are being poisoned
he people of my hometown, Flint, Mich., are being poisoned. Let me not
mince words: This is a racial crime. If it were happening in another
country, we'd call it an ethnic cleansing. Flint is a very poor, majority
African-American city, and the Republican governor of Michigan, Rick
Snyder,
knows they have no political power, no lobbyists, no money. And they didn't
vote for him. So when the residents of Flint, many of whom work two or
three
jobs for minimum wage, complained about the levels of lead in their water
and told the governor their children were getting sick-two years ago!-he
didn't have to listen.
Everybody knows that this would not have happened in predominantly white
Michigan cities like West Bloomfield, or Grosse Pointe, or Ann Arbor.
Everybody knows that if there had been two years of taxpayer complaints,
and
then a year of warnings from scientists and doctors, this would have been
fixed in those towns.
This started when the governor turned Flint's authority over to an
"emergency manager," ostensibly to fix the city's finances. In order to
save
a few million dollars, the manager and the governor's office came up with
the bright idea to unhook the city's water supply from Lake Huron and tap
into the Flint River.
In the 20th century, General Motors made Flint the ultimate company town,
and over the next 100 years the Flint River was turned into a sewer.
Environmental experts warned the political leaders of the dangers of using
the Flint River as a water source. They didn't listen.
So here we are. People need to stop saying that Flint was using Detroit's
water. It was pure water from Lake Huron, the third largest body of
freshwater in the world. A toxic water crisis is the last thing that should
happen here.
The American middle class was built in Flint. Our grandparents knew that if
they worked hard and the company prospered, they prospered. That was the
American Dream, and it spread from Flint to the rest of the nation. Then
around 1980, General Motors, a company that was making billions, figured
out
that it could make even more money by sending jobs to the nonunion South or
overseas. This halved Flint's population and brought along unemployment,
poverty, alcoholism, broken families and other ills. The crime rate
skyrocketed. Wall Street came in and cut Flint's credit rating, making it
impossible for Flint to recover, to attract jobs, to fix its infrastructure
and schools. Flint went through a three-decade economic and social assault.
Those who could get off the sinking ship-myself included-escaped. And those
who were abandoned and left behind? They got their water poisoned. And when
the governor found out, he kept quiet and let the poor of Flint continue
drinking the poison. Marie Antoinette would've been proud. Except this
time,
no one offered any cake. "Let them drink the Flint River" has such a nice
ring.
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