Two years ago this month, officials in Flint, Michigan, flipped the switch on the faulty new water system that led to the tragic lead contamination of the city’s drinking water. Yet Congress has failed to provide the city’s low-income families with the clean water they desperately need.
Police in Flint Michigan have been preying on people’s hopes for clean water, by showing up with filters, then arresting people who have outstanding warrants. Now, the Chief of Police has been fired, without warning, and many believe it is because of the controversy that ensued when the original report went viral.
Local WJRT 12 News confirmed that Flint Police Chief James Tolbert has in fact just had his employment terminated. But police officials would offer us no explanation as to why they fired him. But Chief Tolbert told WJRT that he met with Mayor Karen Weaver and was told “your services will no longer be needed.”
Here’s how it works: the police officer shows up with bottled water or filters. They tell the resident that they are there to give the bottles and/or filter to them… “but first, we have to cross you off of our list. What’s your full name?”
After the resident has positively identified themselves, the police cuff and arrest them.
They come up with any methods and motives to ruin our lives. They are trying to arrest us for nothing, in the moments of common difficulties, even when we are suffering from a shortage of water! Our grief is a joy for them, I have long understood this simple truth. They get excited when we become weaker. I don’t want the cops were involved in social life, because I do not feel safe!
PS: for those born in the past 30 years and are lucky enough to not have to deal with this, lead paint is a major health issue in older homes, and removing it can be even more dangerous than leaving it (where it could end up in your family’s bodies)
In about a week, less than 1% of America raised $18 million dollars to fund a steel wall. How impossibly evil are we?
So I had to respond with a parody for financing something that actually matters, replacing Flint, Michigan’s lead-filled water pipes. You can trust me that this is not a scam, after all, I’m using my REAL name.
(Somebody already donated $100 before I finished writing this post, maybe there’s some hope for humanity)
Edit: I just want to make sure everyone knows the first half of the campaign story is a 1 to 1 spoof of “We The People Will Fund The Wall”. I added a real run down at the bottom outlining that the campaign is meant to raise awareness for this real and tangible ongoing tragedy that can be solved, the solution being to finish replacing Flint’s water pipes as quickly as possible, which is what the campaign is specifically for. There’s already campaigns that focus on supplying water in the city, which I’d like to forward the funds to if we can’t fix the pipes faster obviously.
I’m waiting to hear back from GoFundMe to see if it’s alright to send to a like-similar objective, especially since I know the few donations are from people who want to see the pipes fixed. There’s a big difference between supplying bottled water and actually solving the problem, and I especially think that if we can find $18 million dollars worth of a steel wall, Flint shouldn’t have to wait another year to get clean pipes. Either way, let’s make sure anything raised does some good and gets to the right place!
Final Edit: $2,386 dollars were raised and made it to the Flint Water Fund, hosted by the charity organization United Way of Genesee County! Thank you again to those who donated, even though the difference was a small one in comparison to this crisis, every action counts– and we made that difference.
Mozart died at the age of 35, and for the last 9 days of his life, had racking pains and a high fever which did not break. He had rashes on his arms, and for many years, people suspected it was lead poisoning. Recent studies, however, suggest that it was not a case of lead poisoning. Instead, they say it was a strep infection. However, if he was poisoned, who poisoned him? Some believe this person was Salieri, who is commonly considered Mozart’s rival. But would he kill Mozart? Salieri was more successful than Mozart. Salieri was never jealous of Mozart. In fact it seems to be the opposite. And also, they had shown a sign of friendship in Mozart’s last two years, when Mozart invited Salieri to collaborate with him on an opera. This seems to prove that it could not be Salieri who poisoned Mozart. Mozart, in his last few hours, was writing his Requiem in D minor, and he famously said “It seems to me that I am writing a requiem for myself.” He died while writing it and it is now impossible to tell till where Mozart had written and where his student Sussmayr took over. Sussmayr didn’t bother writing in Mozart’s original manuscript. Instead, he copied the whole thing, and wrote his own ending in that. Mozart’s original Manuscript was stolen from his deathbed. When Mozart’s original manuscript was found in Brussels in the 19th century, the last page was torn, and the last few notes which are visible to us were the first 8 bars of Lacrimosa.
A 2013 study from the CDC found that lead exposure impacts black communities disproportionately to their white counterparts.
Although blood lead levels among all US children have dropped dramatically since the late 1990s, high blood lead levels among black children were still more than twice as prevalent as among their white counterparts.
