12024-04-26T08:45:10+00:00London Jones75d9984c3fe0e0ec2b87a30132499276d8d1e6b71381After numerous efforts, residents of Flint, Michigan, have finally gotten state and federal agencies to combat lead contamination in the city’s water source. Why did it take so long?plain2024-04-26T08:45:10+00:00Bill Pugliano / GettyLondon Jones75d9984c3fe0e0ec2b87a30132499276d8d1e6b7
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12024-04-25T16:34:40+00:00Environmental Racism In Flint9image_header2024-04-26T13:34:48+00:00Considering that Flint's residents are primarily black and poor, and the response from their city officials to their complaints and concerns was ignored, it is an example of environmental racism. The Flint residents were constantly overlooked, and when everything went down, they were not given the proper warnings or assistance to deal with the infrastructural and environmental violence they were experiencing until it was past the point of no return. Flint's residents were forced to live in a hazardous and unsafe environment, and their officials were willingly negligent to their suffering and symptoms from the water.
