We have all seen or heard about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan: thousands of children and pregnant women have been exposed to lead poisoning after a series of questionable or, at best, very short-sighted decisions by various government entities caused lead to seep into their drinking water.
This is, pure and simple, the poisoning of a community. And it is mainly lower-income African-American children who are poisoned at higher rates than in predominantly white neighborhoods or suburbs and whose lives are in dire danger.
Recently, however, we are coming to learn that it is not just Flint and it is not just water. Consider what is happening right here in Ohio.
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