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Flint Weighs Scope of Harm to Children Caused by Lead in Water (2679 hits)


FLINT, Mich. — Quayana Towns’s 2-month-old daughter wriggled on an exam table last week as her pediatrician ticked off questions that have become essential for every parent of young children here.

“So what are you guys doing for water — what are you drinking?” asked the doctor, Mona Hanna-Attisha.

“I have a whole bunch of bottled water that I picked up,” said Ms. Towns, 26, assuring the doctor that the family had been drinking it for a few months, since the gravity of Flint’s water crisis came to light.

“And before that you were using tap water?”

“Yes,” Ms. Towns replied, as her other child, a 1-year-old, King, toddled around.

Dr. Hanna-Attisha would waste no time adding King and his sister, Taeyana, to a new database of children under 6 who may have been exposed to lead in Flint’s water, a group she said she believes could number 8,000.

Of all the concerns raised by the contamination of Flint’s water supply, and the failure of the state and federal governments to promptly address the crisis after it began nearly two years ago, none is more chilling than the possibility that children in this tattered city may have suffered irreversible damage to their developing brains and nervous systems from exposure to lead.

Residents and advocates have expressed outrage over the government’s failure to protect Flint’s children, something many of them say would not have happened if the city were largely white. Adding to their injury, they say, are the harsh conditions of poverty that have already placed ample obstacles in their young lives

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This is what Republicans will do, they will LIE to your face because you stand in the way of them and profits.
Sunday, January 31st 2016 at 9:02PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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“The human body is more than 60 percent water. Blood is 92 percent water, the brain and muscles are 75 percent water, and bones are about 22 percent water.”

“While most of us make frivolous decisions about the differences and benefits of whether to use ‘Hard-Water or Soft-Water’ to suit our accustomed needs and comforts, there exists a small American Town that has not those luxuries…”

They Have Not A Simple Glass of Water!
http://blackinamerica.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi...
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Sunday, January 31st 2016 at 10:41PM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
Brother Doctor Gregory Boulware, that means if that baby in my photo has been poisoned with lead, that little soul will never recover from that, to live a normal LIFE?




Friday, February 5th 2016 at 2:03PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Brother Deacon and Brother Greg, you all should check out this link containing photos of the water the people of Flint were told was "safe" to drink, the photos are very disturbing:
http://usuncut.com/class-war/residents-of-...

I say this a clear act of genocide on the part of the city officials. Everyone involved needs to have themselves in court and they need to be jailed, the same way other politicians get locked up when they commit fraud and other crimes.

Think of all of those children and babies that drank and bathed in that toxic water. Even a stray dog shouldn't even have to bathe in that mess! That water isn't usable even with a filter. Honest to God, drinking your own urine would be safer than drinking that contaminated water.
Friday, February 5th 2016 at 6:39PM
Siebra Muhammad
Sister Muhammad, did you hear that Gov. Rick Snyder wants to give the people of Flint, Michigan a 30% discount on their water bill!!!`




Friday, February 5th 2016 at 10:02PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
So people are still receiving water bills? And what date is being used on these water bills?

Some people that I know who live in the Michigan area have shared with me that the government in Michigan KNEW the water was poisoned a long time before now because they were giveing State Employees in Flint PRIVATE WATER to drink as well as special filters in the office buildings so they wouldn't have to drink the local water....and this was January 2015!!!

The Flint River is so polluted from 150 years of industrialization that the chemicals have made the water corrosive and it's basically a river of acid. So when they switched to the Flint River water in 2014 it started MELTING the pipes in the city's water system as well as the plumbing connected to that system and all the appliances like washing machines, dishwashers, hot water heaters, ect that came in contact with it. That's where the lead came from.

Immediately people said something was wrong. Those same people I knew in Flint said that water tasted "sour" like water with a lemon twist. Acid is sour in it's mild form.

When it tasted funny the government officials did nothing. When it smelled funny the government officials did nothing. Only when so much of the pipes started melting that even the grey metal (lead) and red rust started changing the color of the water, that the state started taking complaints seriously.

You can bet your last dollar that Flint, MI isn't the only predominantly black city in America that has contaminated water. In fact, another report came out which was actually done by the Republicans in Michigan that said that Flint wasn't the only city with high levels of lead poisoning. It reported that OTHER Black cities and neighborhoods have children with lead levels just as high (if not higher) than in Flint.

Water is essential. It's not for entertainment or a material item that people can live without. However, leave it to Republicans to counter a claim that Black children in Flint are getting poisioned by putting out a report basically saying, "Well kids in OTHER cities are also getting poisoned too so stop complaining!!!" And it's not just the children and babies that are being affected by the water system...it's adults and the elderly too...despite adults having a stronger immune system.






Saturday, February 6th 2016 at 9:27AM
Siebra Muhammad
Our only permanent solution is for us to have our own country and that is what is going to soon happen.

You all are some very stupid and an ignorant people. What you all are disturbed about you can’t do anything about it except join me since GOD is with me. I am the only one who has the permanent solution!

We should and must want OUT of White America! The problem is that you all don’t believe that we are going to have our own country by divine means, yet you dumb-ass say that you all believe in GOD!

Saturday, February 6th 2016 at 9:50AM
Harry Watley
This is black genocide--no different from historical imported diseases--AIDS, EBOLA and all the other germ warfare being used against our people while we complain without doing anything about it as a united people.
Saturday, February 6th 2016 at 9:59AM
Miss Demi
Sister Mohammad I will be looking for more news of atrocity to come out as the Republicans stand in the way and do nothing while American babies are being poisoned by order of the govener of Michigan Rick Snyder.


Saturday, February 6th 2016 at 11:25AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Harry,

I have deleted all of your foul language. You or no one will come to any of my blogs and feel they have the right to use such disrespecting language. I don't care if you have a different point of view but you will be respectable.


Saturday, February 6th 2016 at 1:00PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
my foul language can not save you! you are mentally hurt because of how much of a fool I am making of you and therefore this is my last comment on this blog!

I will use the forum to express my foul language about you since you can not delete my feeling there STUPID!
Saturday, February 6th 2016 at 1:41PM
Harry Watley
HARRY,

Deleting your feelings are not my point or concern HARRY, you are a man, talking to another man and not something you have justified in your own mind to treat less than a man because some evil spirit told you, you could. That is the same evil and self anointing spirit that wants to eliminate the Black American off the face of the planet. HARY<, you already sound like you have been wounded like a wounded Benji by this pitiful statement of yours and I quote:

"my foul language can not save you! you are mentally hurt because of how much of a fool I am making of you and therefore this is my last comment on this blog!"

I will continue to encourage you to make relevant comments to my blogs always and don't get me wrong but I will not tolerate you or anyone to insult my guest to any one of my blogs, got it!

HARRY, if you can not do this simple task and request of you, then I behoove you to stay off my blogs now and in the future, that decision is yours, MAN TO MAN....



Saturday, February 6th 2016 at 4:36PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Now back to the subject of this blog.


Sunday, February 7th 2016 at 12:23PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
/*
...Yes Brother Deacon, Every Child Indeed! ...Every Man, Woman, and Child - of COLOUR!

I Hear You All,Loud and Clear!

"Back in the day, there was a movie made about contaminating the drinking water of a selected group of people in order to cull the herd, if not completely eliminating them. How many of you remember the movie “Three The Hard Way?” The film starred ‘Fred Williamson,’ ‘Jim Brown,’ and Jim Kelly.’ I can also recall that I’ve mentioned this film in reference not long ago in another posting. The film suggested a method to a pro-white group and/or groups of how to disseminate the hated target group of people who happened to be of color.

The covert scientists who worked for the hate group(s) came up with a chemical that would eradicate only the people of color – particularly ‘Black People!’ All one had to do was add this chemical to the drinking water supply of the targeted group. The hate group who happened to emulate the ‘KKK’ with the arm bands and brown-shirted uniforms of Nazi origins and regimes were dispatched to all of the U.S. cities with large Black populations. They were directed to go out to all the water reservoirs and add the time released chemical into the water at the water treatment plants and facilities.
The heroic threesome, who happened to hear of the plot by an escaped run-away near-dead young Black testing prisoner; took it upon themselves to save the people due to lack of response by the governing officials across the land.

...What Misery - For A Simple Glass of Water!
http://blackhistory.com/content/288936/the...
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Monday, February 8th 2016 at 11:50AM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
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Does anyone remember what the 'Hebrew Overseer' (The Arab) did to the babies of color, along with his Roman friend and compatriot? What about the Ruler of Germany and his plan to eradicate people of Color? ...And yes, there have been many others - 'Brother Haile Sellassie' raised hell about that conflict too. He witnessed the death of millions of Black People at the hands and behest of the bloodthirsty Italian Benito Mussolini!

It's A Planned Thing...

'SANKOFA the MAAFA!'

In Peace and Love,

'G'
*/

Monday, February 8th 2016 at 12:04PM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
Yes it is Brother Doctor Gregory Boulware I came across this video on You Tube just the other week, here's that link for your review: MAAFA 21 http://blackinamerica.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi...

That the oligarchs of big cooperation's are still funding such studies which made a path for the rise of Hitler which was the started in this country first and that program was called "Eugenics." That type of thinking still prevails to this day while they are masking themselves in far right groups.

Monday, February 8th 2016 at 12:40PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Sister Demi, It was you who peaked my interest in this subject but I never knew how long these devils was out here and many of us don't have a clue and some of us don't want to know how real this is.

Thank You Sister Demi for pointing out this direction and please, view this link MAAFA 21 http://blackinamerica.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi...
and tell what you think.



Monday, February 8th 2016 at 12:47PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Flint Residents Upset About Water Bills http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation...


Monday, February 8th 2016 at 1:49PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
/*
...In reiteration~

/*
Ya’ateeh, As Salaam Alaikum, Shalom, Hotep, Hola, Konichiwa, Privyet, Hallo, and Hello!

Brother Deacon and Members of this forum:

I have been in the possession of this information for several years...(Maafa 21).

I decided to post the material due to the fact that I was aware that many Black People and Other groups were not in reception of my submission. I have attempted to make this information available to as many people as possible when I post the caption:

"SANKOFA the Maafa!"

However, I am happy to know that the information has finally come to the forefront - sadly with this posting.

“I consider that the world and almost our civilization for the next twenty-five years, is going to depend upon a simple, cheap, and safe contraceptive to be used in poverty stricken slums, jungles, and among the most ignorant people.
Even this will not be sufficient, because I believe that now, immediately; there should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed and would die out were the government not feeding them.”
~Margaret Sanger, American Eugenics Society – Planned Parenthood, letter to International Harvester Heiress, Catherine Dexter McCormick, movement funder~

Leon Whiney of the Birth Control Review was complimented by Adolf Hitler on his book of sterilization…”If we could purge the country of our typical slum elements, in the city and country alike, what harm would be done?
This includes all of the various types of less useful social elements…
“With this done, sterilization will come to the assistance of those who are too stupid to comprehend or to carry out the simple methods of contraception… We should probably be disposing of the lowest fourth of our population; and, after the economic adjustment, we should hardly miss them – forced sterilization is the answer!”

“I plan to keep a file (Tickler) on all persons whose names reach me regardless of age in order that they be picked up as they reach the child bearing age!

~11.29.14~
http://blackhistory.com/content/273292/maa...

SANKOFA:
~ "The Power of Sankofa" ~
Sankofa is an African word from the Akan tribe in Ghana. The literal translation of the word and the symbol is “it is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind.”
The word is derived from the words:
SAN (return),
KO (go),
FA (look, seek and take).
"The Sankofa symbolizes the Akan people’s quest for knowledge among the Akan with the implication that the quest is based on critical examination, and intelligent and patient investigation.
The symbol — shown in the photo on an interior window in the Carter G. Woodson Center — is based on a mythical bird with its feet firmly planted forward with its head turned backwards.
http://blackhistory.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?b...

“Maafa: Life After Conquest”
The Ruin Of A Nation Begins In The Homes Of Its People
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Gregory V. Boulware
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https://boulwareenterprises.wordpress.com/...
http://blackinamerica.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi...
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Monday, February 8th 2016 at 7:39PM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
Esq. Boulware, thank you for this information. Unfortunately, we are condition not to listen to our own people until its too late.
Monday, February 8th 2016 at 7:52PM
Miss Demi
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...You're very welcome Dear Sister!

I thank YOU as well.

"SANKOFA the MAAFA!"

In Peace and Love,

'G'
*/

Monday, February 8th 2016 at 8:05PM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
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Sister Demi...

'ABSOLUTELY!'

...On many occasions, we have been our own worst enemy. This insulting disposition has lasted for eons in our society - when oh when will 'Black Folks Listen To The Wisdom Of Black Folks Who Know Just A Little Bit More - Some Of It Is Basic Experience, The Rest Is Simple Knowledge!

Thanks for the friendly listening Ear, Dear Sister...

"SANKOFA the MAAFA!"

In Peace and Love,

'G'
*/

Tuesday, February 9th 2016 at 11:43AM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
Great responses my Sister and my Brother.


Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 5:43PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Cops In Flint Pretend To Deliver Water Filters To Residents, Instead Deliver Arrest Warrants
http://trofire.com/2016/02/05/police-in-fl...
Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 9:25PM
Siebra Muhammad
/*
How disgustingly slick and slimy!

Damn Sister Siebra...What will they do next?

'One Word': "BLACK-SCAPEGOATS!" ...these authorities have one hell of a nerve... I guess if they couldn't kill them off, they'll arrest them and let them rot in jail - forcing them to consume the vile and filthy waste-water! */
http://blackhistory.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi?i...

...I really feel terrible about their situation.

Sadly,

In Peace and Love,

'G'
*/

Wednesday, February 10th 2016 at 11:11PM
Gregory V. Boulware, Esq.
Update On Flint: Flint water: (CNN) —The Michigan governor's office was earlier warned about not calling drinking water in Flint safe because of an increase in Legionnaires' disease cases in the county -- nearly a full year before the governor publicly disclosed the emergency, according to documents released this week.

READ MORE: Gov's staff long knew of Legionnaires' cases http://www.kcci.com/health/flint-water-gov...


Tuesday, March 1st 2016 at 9:56PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Update On Flint: Flint water: Flint: It's not just about the water http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/06/us/flint-pro...

Flint residents hope city's Democratic debate will spur action amid water crisis http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/ma...


Sunday, March 6th 2016 at 5:43PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
There has been more than enough awareness brought to this issue...there should've been more progress by now. The news is reporting that water supply stores are running out of lead testing supplies and filters. Water bills are about to skyrocket because the country's water infrastructure is too is dire need of repair and the only way to pay for it is to raise the price of water. People in those areas are going to get real violent when they realize how serious this is.

During Hurricane Katrina when we couldn't drink the water, and had to boil the water, a man shot and killed his sister over a cup of snowball ice! I see a lot of lawsuits in those cities future.
Wednesday, March 9th 2016 at 12:10PM
Siebra Muhammad
WOW, Sister Muhammad,

I was blown away, when you told that short story about a man and his sister over water, WOW!

Water, water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. There is a bill a bipartisan bill to give 100 Million dollars to replace the lead pipes in Flint but the republicans are holding that bill up. They spent more than that investigating Hillary for her involvement in Benghazi.

Wednesday, March 9th 2016 at 1:41PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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