Lead Exposure is a Race Issue. The Crisis in Flint, Michigan, Shows Why
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Vox
January 6, 2016

“The Flint lead crisis shows how these disparities happen. It’s not that there’s a grand conspiracy to contaminate black children with lead. Instead, centuries of discriminatory and oppressive policies have pushed [B]lack people into poor towns and cities that can’t afford the lead abatement programs that wealthier places can.”

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