How Racism Gets in the Water

The Flint Water Crisis makes it clear

Sam McKenzie Jr.
4 min readApr 23, 2019

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Racism in the Flint Water Crisis is up close, and it goes way back. According to the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, “The Flint Water Crisis was more than 75 years in the making.”

By 1940, Flint was the most segregated city in the North. In fact, Flint was more segregated than all but two cities in the South. America made

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