Commission: 'systemic Racism' At Root Of Flint Water Crisis

By JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle
Fri, 02/17/2017 - 3:04pm

(AP) — "Systemic racism" going back decades is at the core of problems that caused a lead-contaminated water crisis in the majority black city of Flint, according to a Michigan Civil Rights Commission report issued Friday. [...] the 130-page report based on the testimony of more than 100 residents, experts and government and community leaders at public hearings and other meetings last year concludes that decisions would have been different had they concerned the state's wealthier, predominantly white communities. Elevated levels of lead, a neurotoxin, were detected in children, and 12 people died in a Legionnaires' outbreak that has been linked to the improperly treated water. The commission's report notes the local, state and federal action to help Flint that began in late 2015 but criticized the timing, noting that by that time residents "had been reporting heavily discolored and bad tasting water for well over a year." The commission's findings build on a report released last year by a bipartisan task force created by Snyder that determined the crisis was a case of "environmental injustice."

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