THREAD: Kudos to Miss Michigan 4 highlighting #FlintWaterCrisis &
fact that a U.S. city of majority poor people has dangerous water 4.5 years later DESPITE...https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/10/entertainment/miss-america-miss-michigan-water-trnd/index.html …
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The cherry-picked and highly suspect claims of MI officials saying the water is A OK (I’ve reported there 12x and it’s not OK. But the mixed bag in her statement has nothing to do with her...it has to do with wider American public. Whenever a public figure calls out the outrage..
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Of Flint and the total disregard for its citizens we see for so long, there grows a couple hour to maximum of a day “Flint still has no clean water” echo with tweets and stories...but then, everyone doing so returns to regularly scheduled tweeting & programming of the Trump...
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Circus while Flint residents return to ACTIVE body rashes, blisters, hair loss, immune disorders, teeth loss, cognitive issues, severe body pain, and worse (all I have seen THIS YEAR with my own eyes). Tweets and momentary outrage are great. Calling your representatives...
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And pressuring them to act to reopen water pods, organizing protests at news organizations, donating bottled water, and other small acts can make a big difference
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Don’t think this is just a Flint problem. There is contaminated water all over this country. If that gets normalized—as well as lack of government accountabilty-in Flint...it will be normalized everywhere.
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