The place that gave us MC Breed, Ready for the World, and the Dayton Family—Flint, Michigan—has hot and cold running toxic waste coming out of its taps. A perfect storm of jaw-dropping neglect and disregard for mostly black, overwhelmingly poor Flint has resulted in a political house fire and a bunch of goddamn babies with three times the normal amount of lead in their blood. The effects of lead poisoning in young children can’t help but remind one of the effects—cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and such—that are said to be the result of prenatal cocaine exposure. Crack babies to lead babies—baby, what we gonna do?
How many times they gonna kill us, how many ways? Kanye voice: How many? When is the criminality of the white executive class that obliterates poor people for profit going to become illegal? I’ll wait. Please dust my skeleton from time to time…