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<v 0>What was it like before the water crisis?</v>

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A lot of us like, well, we got it. We struggled. We poor,

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but we was contempt right here at home.

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You lost for words,

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I feel I've been mistreated. I feel I've been wrong.

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I feel I've been wrong in every way

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in 2015 and tell the 14 people in our gullible,

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nobody wanted to believe that their government would poison them.

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We thought things were safe and looked. They weren't, they weren't safe.

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People are affected physically and mentally.

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My first initial thoughts was

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we didn't think anything of it. We just drank the river water.

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We didn't know how bad it was until it came out.

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We just, all these stories. And we like, man, the same thing. That's that water?

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That's the water. And it got bigger and bigger during, in the mail saying, Oh,

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well, we've been in violation of the safe drinking water act for nine months.

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Sorry,

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what? Like, ah, there, it just stays pulling up the Hills.

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No, no way. You just don't want to believe it.

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That he could happen in a city, especially a city like this,

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where we're surrounded by lakes. You know, I thought we were all gonna die.

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Like when I really realized that

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he really tried to kill us like this, this land in the water, it was like, wow,

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lit lit in the water

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or without water response team gave your bottle.

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I heard about it in third world countries, but not here.

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This is one of the poorest cities. Flint

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is officially hit home

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cook. When I drank it, brush my teeth, wash my face.

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And

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it did what they say lead does to human beings. It did that to me,

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especially getting out of the shower and you're getting dressed and you can just

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watch the rash, just climb up your face.

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And then when you go to ring out your hair, like every time I take a shower,

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my hair is so much thinner than it was. I get here.

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And then there's just a handful of my hair coming out from the root I'm like

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don't cry,

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Paris family go down.

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<v 1>When I went and had my physical this year, they told me I wasn't one point away,</v>

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one point away from stage four, liver failure.

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We're old. We've lived their life.

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We're going to die young because of the damage that was done to us.

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But what about the kids and the grandkids?

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We have five grandkids here in the city of Flint,

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all five of the kids tested positive for lead poisoning.

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My wife and I have fought since October of 2014 for

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safe, clean, affordable water. Nothing. Yeah.

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<v 0>[Inaudible].</v>

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<v 1>And then that two year battle,</v>

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all we have gotten is laughed at names called

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at door shut and locked in our face.

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That's pretty sad. You gotta be a strong person to go to one of the rallies.

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I tell you that you're getting denied.

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Wait a minute, I'll get what you later.

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When we know we should have results way before now,

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Our politicians are playing with this. You know? And that's what gets us upset.

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That's my biggest animosity is that they're playing with their lives.

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<v 0>They should have told us day one,</v>

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that would have been a whole different situation. I'd been angry about it,

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but at least I would have known so I could protect my kids,

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went out of their way to lie to us and to provide faulty science,

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to cheat on the test, to lie. That's the MDQ right there.

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And the EPA let it happen.

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<v 1>So that tells you what kind of government we have.</v>

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<v 2>Make it, make sense. It doesn't.</v>

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<v 1>You want me to sit here and just be calm and cool and just forgive you,</v>

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forgive and forget. But it's hard to forgive and forget something like that.

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<v 0>It's easy to take me off now because I'm like irritated.</v>

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So this.

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<v 2>Is how we feel. We just saying, explain it.</v>

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<v 1>I could give you some of that higher a square at the highest is fellows.</v>

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That is.

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<v 0>I don't know how much I can swear, but you know, there's a,</v>

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that's what I'm working really hard. That's why I pause like, boom.

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Cause I want to say.

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<v 1>The piece of caca, boop. Other words, let me translate that</v>

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the governor is the father of the state

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and the more he passes that blame,

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the more it looks like he tried to kill us.

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<v 2>Me never did he say it was placed on his heart to do something about it?</v>

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He said it ran across his mind. That's all it did ran and kept going.

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He needed not being office.

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<v 1>Skip drinking water, come live here,</v>

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live what, what? We're living

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militarily. If you want to get rid of the indigenous population,

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then you cut off the supplies that they need every day.

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And that's what it feels like.

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<v 0>We have to take away the baby toy area from the basement to build a water</v>

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tower just so we can have enough supply

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for our everyday living.

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When we go get water, it takes a whole day. Like that whole day,

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we can't do anything else. We have to just get water for that day.

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They give her a bottle of water, 16 ounces.

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They're not how many waters that is four bath.

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<v 1>No, the fire station. They only want to give you one case of water.</v>

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<v 0>And they're not doing any deliveries. You know, he's doing deliveries.</v>

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We are the residents,

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the sick people here are delivering to people who don't have it

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when I've had a long day and actually want to come home and eat.

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And I'm like starving. That's like, no, she still wants to cook. And like,

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hold on process. Just so you can have a nice personality. And I love myself.

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<v 1>Everybody running around women. Can I get some on? Why wider? When am I run out?</v>

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You don't want to live like that. That's stress on the heart.

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My dad in 93, we've been here since 53.