![]() He compared her skin lesions to the Flint child on the cover of TIME Magazine. Morgan’s 4-year-old granddaughter, Malia Rae Brackett, broke out in rashes from bathing in the water. One of Morgan’s mantras is “If they’re hungry, feed ‘em. In the void left by local and state government, churches are stepping up. They’re not going to knock on anyone’s door, so you’ve got to go find them.” “We also can’t forget about the undocumented immigrants that are here. “We want to target those who cannot get out,” Morgan says. The sight convinced him that the fire stations and the National Guard were not doing enough to distribute water. ![]() ![]() But he recently saw an elderly woman in an electric wheelchair trying to navigate a snow-covered street with a case of water in her lap. A semi-truck came last week from Kansas City water donations came from a motorcycle group in Detroit Boston called, too. Morgan is working with other African American churches in Flint to distribute bottled water. The five cities under state receivership, he adds, are all Democratic strongholds, whereas Michigan is controlled at all levels of government by Republicans. “Because this is Flint, an economically depressed, and mostly black community, this was allowed to go on,” Morgan says. The economic depression the soaring murder rates the state’s imposition of an emergency manager on Flint the closing of two of the city’s four public high schools (as in Detroit, plaster falls from the rafters, and rats stalk the halls) water rates that were raised five different times the putrid water that was too corrosive for General Motors, and too risky for Governor Rick Snyder’s own staff, but deemed good enough for Flint residents to drink. Morgan offers a history lesson of Flint’s woes since GM packed up and left town, taking tens of thousands of jobs with it. “This poor community has just been raped over and over and over. “Is this economic racism?” asks Pastor Will Morgan, a lifelong Flint resident, General Motors retiree and reverend of the Apostolic Church, which has become a water distribution point for residents on Flint’s impoverished east side.
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