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America Dissected

Unleaded

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Society & Culture

4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Flint Water Crisis dominated national headlines when it emerged in 2016—focusing national attention on the hazards of lead poisoning. Newark, New Jersey is facing a similar crisis today. But Flint and Newark are only the tip of the iceberg of an epidemic of lead poisoning facing urban communities across the country. Dr. Abdul El-Sayed visits Flint to speak with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician and researcher who uncovered the Water Crisis to understand how Flint’s history shaped the government failures that led to the crisis—and how distrust can devastate public health for poor, marginalized communities all across the United States.


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0:00.0

Flint, Michigan, just an hour's drive from Detroit.

0:03.9

I spent a ton of time there as a kid.

0:06.2

It's where my grandparents and my mom both went to college.

0:08.9

We're both my parents worked for most of my childhood.

0:11.6

It's a place that helped shape the person I am today.

0:14.2

Of course, most of you know Flint for very different reasons.

0:18.8

Flint's tab water was laced with dangerous levels of lead.

0:23.2

The state knew about it and did nothing.

0:28.0

It's been five years since the crisis started.

0:30.4

The cameras are gone, the spotlights dimmed.

0:32.6

But the people of Flint, the nearly 100,000 of them who call it home,

0:36.6

they still can't trust their water.

0:38.6

The same lead piping that leech poison into their children remains in the ground.

0:42.4

In the same government who told them it was safe to drink before the crisis became public.

0:46.2

It's saying the same thing today.

0:48.2

So I decided to make a visit to check in on folks at the Tuesday Farmers Market.

0:52.4

That's where I met Kyle.

0:54.8

How did the water crisis affect you?

0:57.2

It affected my child more and so than me.

0:59.6

With her...

1:00.6

How was she?

1:01.6

She said now.

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