DADDY'S GIRLS: HOW BETRAYAL AFFECTS DAUGHTERS

A REPOST 

(and a few changes here and there)

"...Daddy taught me everything. He had a work ethic like no other. He taught me about politics. He tutored me in math. He taught me how to build, paint, use logic. He taught me the ways of the world. He taught me how to fix stuff; how to use a hammer and the difference between a Phillips and a Flathead screw driver.

He bought us anything we wanted; far more than we needed. He made sure we had it all. As stoic as he could be from time to time, I knew he loved us. I loved him and respected him. He was my daddy.

And then, I answered the phone.

I was in high school. Early one afternoon, as I was doing homework in my daddy’s home office, his phone rang. I answered it. She hung up on me. The phone rang again and it was her. She did not say much, but I gathered quickly who she was. This time, I gave the phone to my mother.

Everything fell apart."

Read More:

http://www.blackgirlspeaks.me/2016/05/infidelity-affects-daughters/

"DADDY'S GIRLS:
HOW INFIDELITY AFFECTS DAUGHTERS" 
is the actual, original title of the article quoted above.


I replaced the word "infidelity"
with "betrayal"
because like the word "cheating"
it has come to mean "small mistake"
inside the patriarchal constructed reality of
"boys will be boys,"
as something worthy of insta-forgiveness,
a cheap forgiveness 
not worthy of being identified as 
"forgiveness" at all.

When you forgive somebody you forgive the whole ugly thing after you've looked at it in detail. That's when you can give the offense  and give the offense the horrible names it deserves, one of which is "betrayal." When someone cheats on you it is a "betrayal."


This article on how a father's infidelity affects daughters
was inspired by Beyonce's "Lemonade" and probably the fact
that the host blogger is getting married soon.

A different verse of "Lemonade" stuck out for her (See the link). But below is the "Lemonade" verse that stuck out for me

In the tradition of men

in my blood

you come home at 3 am 

and lie to me

This line alone made me wonder if Beyonce' has both everything and nothing at all. 

I thought about all the different debates about whether "Lemonade" is autobiographical or not. Then I decided it didn't matter. Whether "Lemonade" reflects Beyonce's real life or just her real art, she thinks love is supposed to hurt, right?


Beyhivers and The Beyhive Adjacent tell me, in so many words, that she was taught that love is the pain of betrayal and agony by her mother, just as "Lemonade" suggests -- love is not simply hard work, imperfect, and sometimes painful as you learn to negotiate and compromise with one another but agonizing.  

She's rich. She's successful. She has power. I wonder if she thinks, like so many other black women before her, that watching her husband betray her will not damage her daughter the way she's been damaged.

And Beyonce is damaged, right?

Whether "Lemonade" is real or art, 
the author is saying that 
she has,
or that women have,
or women that often do, 
or women that should expect, 
to live in an environment where partners 
cannot, should not, trust one another

yes?

That's her damage reflected right?



I'm pretty sure that my concept of damage is not widely believed by black women in the black community. They do not believe that Beyonce's acceptance of betrayal as a normal part of love reflects damage. To many black women think that acceptance of betrayal from men only reflects "normal life" -- because black women singers keep echoing this male endorsed b.s. over and over and over again for decades now.

We beg for fidelity. And then we hope we get it.

Apparently, unlike the writer of the captioned piece, most women think their mother did fine by them by staying with a betrayer -- so long as she left eventually. And Beyonce is not seen as damaged by her mother's taking a long, long time to finally leave her OWN betrayer while in her daughter's eyesight.

Some might imply that Beyonce' can't be damaged because she's rich. I don't believe this. But many do even if they wouldn't articulate it in this way.

In the U.S. "she's rich" means she's entirely successful or successful enough. The fact that she cannot trust the man she's bound to means nothing...because...I don't know....because she as rich an as cookie-cutter gorgeous as she is, she can replace him?

But will she have anti-male PTSD, will her daughter have an anti-male PTSD before she does replace the betrayer?

And if "Lemonade" is not real, if this is only "entertainment," only her art, will her art communicate what she wants it to?

Will her teenage girl followers hear the message in her art and have experience symptoms of PTSD before they replace their betrayers in an attempt to follow her life, or follow her art, or just follow society's telling us all that "boys will be boys" so you have to forgive their repeated betrayals?

I keep wondering if black women who decide to date outside the race, who decide that they hate black men and will date white men ONLY instead of white men, Asian men, Puerto Rican men in addition to black men, haven't been burnt to ashes trying to accept betrayal as a part of black love -- something to be easily or eventually forgiven after the agony has passed.


How is it so many of us do not understand that the reason that all the Beyonces and black women that came Beyonce cannot trust the next man is because Daddy, the first black husband she has seen, and her mother have all taught black women that men cheat and that cheating is not a thing as big as "betrayal"

If I was a man I'd be offended at this "boys will be boys" belief in women. I would be offended at the idea that anything with a penis cannot control himself anymore than an animal. Men would do well to accept feminist views of women and retrain the women they are with instead of seeing themselves as 1) exceptions to the rules OR 2) seeing these women who seen too many other women be betrayed as liars....when they are suffering anti-male PTSD born of a sexism that embraces "boys will be boys"

When a father fails and betrays a mother

or

When a husband fails and betrays a father

She (Beyonce,  daughter, or her teenage female follower) 

will not be able to trust the next man, 

even if he's worth his weight in gold, 

because she's been taught that 

men ARE natural betrayers, 

yet still "good people" 

even when they have no intention of 

stopping their pattern 

of screwing anything that catches their attention

after he has sworn fidelity inside or outside 

of a marriage ceremony.

But this is a lie. 
Cheating is betrayal. 

And accepting betrayal from someone else is a betrayal of the self. Accepting betrayal in front of your daughter, like it's so much nothing,  is setting up all the black girls, that listen with their hearts and believe, for failure.

When I was young I thought it was ridiculous to make a movie star or music icon responsible for what teenage girls and boys believe. I thought it was ridiculous to worship a star. But now I've seen nasty, enduring arguments over what Beyonce does and doesn't do. I've seen heartfelt defense of her positive actions and her dismal failures. 

So now I know, stars and their influence is important.  Beyonce ought to know this too. She's sitting on top of the mountain with the best view. 


Read More Here: 
 http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/05/the-ripple-effect-of-infidelity-on-girl.html
(updated:  8 2 16)

How DOES She Do It All?

WOMAN
LOVER
JOURNALIST
WIFE
MOTHER
FRIEND

[ Soledad ] O'Brien said sometimes she has to pour her whole self into her work and at those times she's probably a crappy mom. But at other times she puts work on hold so she can focus solely on her family, even if that makes her a bad journalist in the eyes of others. She said she realized she can't always be great at all her roles in this world and that's OK.

[A]nother woman juggling a career with motherhood....was asked the key to balance. She leaned into the microphone and said, "Balance is a unicorn."

 ~Writeous Babe

Of course, you've heard women say, "Nobody asks men, 'How do you do it all' " And that is very true. Nobody does. When Marcia Clarke was trying O J Simpson for murder, people asked with outrage, "Who is taking care of her children?" to which I and several others responded, "The same person that is taking care of her male co-worker's children - the spouse."

The other thing that gets to me is that a man can stand up at a microphone, after 30 years of service in the Senate or something, and publicly say to crowds of people and multiple television cameras that he worked 80 hours a week while his wife did virtually all the raising of children without anybody uttering the words "You were a bad father," even though he was.


Rarely will anyone claim that a man was a bad parent if his job is either very powerful or earning him and his family millions of dollars per year. Even those who like to wag their fingers at mothers (but not fathers) who don't worship "balance" have no problem if a man is an absentee father if the power or the money is rolling in.  

There are supposed to be two parents, last I heard. Heterosexually speaking, a mom and a dad may not be interchangeable in their functions and their talents. And that's probably a good thing. But when one PARENT is busy and not there for the child, the other parent should make themselves unbusy and present. And hopefully the unbusy and present parent is not ALWAYS the same parent over and over again.. 

A child needs BOTH parents to be parents, yes? 

When two people are functioning as partners and parents --once the mother separates from the child after birthing and breast feeding-- there really shouldn't be a reason for a mother to feel guilty because she's not with her children 24/7. That's what husbands, mothers, in-laws, and the rest of the village is for, yes? 

The reasonable reason to feel guilty, I would think, is when your child barely recognizes you and doesn't seek comfort from you, because you've become a virtual stranger due to being at work all the time -- no matter how much money and/or power is rolling in. When fathers learn to feel this same reasonable guilt for the same reason and take steps to avoid ever having to feel it, we'll all be better off.

Maybe one day Soledad and mothers all over the world will stop calling themselves the occasionally "crappy mother" as measured by an unrealistic standard and get used to the idea that fathers should feel just as responsible for the day-to-day raising of their children.

Maybe if men feel just as responsible for the day-to-day raising of their children too, maybe they won't count themselves as good fathers once they are divorced and only see their children every other weekend. And if men don't feel like "good fathers" for seeing their children every other weekend, maybe they'll be more invested in staying married --which, again, requires day to day engagement with their children and their wife.

The days of a man being "just a provider" ought to be over by now. And the days of men feeling like "the beast of burden" of their families would be over by now if the men and women who love hard gender roles and also the idea that motherhood is somehow more magical and important than fatherhood would stop and smell the rosy feminism just waiting for them to partake.


File this under *Feminism was supposed to make life better for men (fathers) too.*

Read Morehttp://www.writeousbabe.com/2016/06/why-i-dont-believe-in-balance.html

ON A TEENAGER'S DECISION TO LEAVE AN IVY LEAGUE LIFE AND DISAPPEAR

Nayla Kidd was an engineering student at Columbia University when reports that she had gone missing went viral. She was found perfectly healthy nearly two weeks later, only telling police she wanted to “start fresh.”

...I  found out I was a missing person on May 14.

I had been ignoring the avalanche of calls and texts from friends and family asking where I was and if I was OK. But that night I caved, turned on my phone and decided to look.

Scrolling down the list of messages, I saw one from a friend that read: “Just Google yourself.”

I typed my name into the search bar and a huge list of news reports with photos of my face stared back at me. 

That's when she found out the police were looking for her. Apparently, Nayla decided she didn't want to be an engineer, wanted to study art instead. Not having the courage to face her mother she decided to disappear instead.

And you know what? I don't blame her. I've lived with the kind of pressure she was experiencing. And being black likely magnifies it

Read More

http://nypost.com/2016/05/29/why-i-had-to-escape-my-ivy-league-life-and-disappear/

:

A lot of people have commented about how selfish Nayla is. And that maybe so. However, there's a 50/50 chance that her mother is the problem.

We'll probably never know. And it's possible Nayla just became overwhelmed and responded selfishly. However,

as another blogger has suggested, if Nayla had gone to a police station and told them she was about to drop off the grid for a while and doesn't want to be found before she disappeared, then maybe that would have been okay.

Maybe. 

I say maybe because some people have no idea what it's like to have a parent selfish enough to think it's their right to live through their child, that their child owes it to them to do what they want as parents.

Congratulations to those of you who cannot imagine a parent so selfish you have to run to get away and make your own decisions. Let me say I also hope you haven't become that parent yourself.

For those that don't know, let me explain this:

There are literally dozens and dozens of people who consider themselves "good parents" for which respect travels in one direction, toward themselves.

I do not have children. But I have been on the receiving end of this demand for respect from someone who gives none back. And I've met dozens and dozens of black girls now black women who have experienced very similar things.

I swear, nobody's voice disappears into a black hole without anybody hearing it like a girl's and especially a black girl's.

Some parents think they know what a child should do with his or her own life. And that parent will tell their child that the over-control is for his or her own good. A parent will manipulate a child, a young adult, by saying, "You have it so much better than I had it. If only I had the opportunities I'm giving you..."

I remember my father making me feel guilty because he was buying me a new winter coat every year. He said, "Your mother hasn't had a new coat in 3 years because we have to buy you a new one every year."

I believed him.

I believe it was selfish of me to be taking up so much of the family's money. I believed it until I was in my 30's and I was trying to decide if I WANTED a new coat. My old one, leather, had classic lines and looked practically new. That's when I realized I'd owne one of my coats for years because, as an adult, I wasn't out growing them anymore --- not because it was some sort of unselfish sacrifice to keep a winter coat for more than one season.

When a parent makes you feel like you ought to be grateful to be alive when you didn't ask to be born, it's easy to make a 19, 20, 21, or 22 year old feel like they owe you their life, like they don't have a right to any choices about what to do with it.

And if they've been taking you to a special school, and piano lessons, and ballet lessons, and special spanish tutors etc, in preparation for you to go to an Ivy League school and make 6 figures a year like they were unable to do because of racism, well....dropping off the grid might seem like a better idea. Anything might seem better than saying,  

"Yeah, I know you've been planning this and helping me type reports at 1 AM since I was 12, but I don't want this."

We don't know what happened in Nayla's case. But what I am saying that there's at least a 50/50 chance that Nayla wasn't the selfish one.

I don't know what white parents are like, but black parents might seem a little more prone to "you owe me type" X "success" with "a smart child" --because the black parent probably really has been to hell and back trying to keep a child on track in the good ole white supremacy soaked U.S. of A.

But so what? Even black children don't ask to be born. Black children, black girls, don't owe anybody anything at 18. They have choices that people, including parents, will or won't like.

Some over-control comes from natural parental fear. Even I can understand that. But I can tell you from experience that some of it comes from extreme self-centeredness at the very same time. Once some parents decide they know best, there's no more talking to be done.

It never even occurred to me that I had a choice to deviate from my father's plan from the time I was 12. Even when a next door neighbor, a grad school student in her early 20s, tried to intervene on my behalf saying, "You're putting too much pressure on her!" Only 17, I didn't understand what she meant.

I just assumed I was supposed to check off all these boxes to have "a good life."

So I think it's ultra-excellent advice, that another blogger gave, telling teens and those in their early twenties who are trying to take control of their lives to contact the police before they feel like they have to drop out of he world for a while. I'd like to hope an adult child would have a truly adult mentor or minister or somebody that would really listen and intercede with a parent on their behalf.

But I don't hold out much hope for the interceding. Most people, it seems to me, think they own their children like luggage. Maybe that's changing. I hope so.

Yet since I tend to think that a would-be intercede-er would be likely to have children and maybe feel possessive of their own children, I'm willing to bet most adults will not help a 19 year old tell her parent(s) they need to back off.

In fact, I think that's why child abuse goes unchecked in so many situations. People with children do not want to interfere with other people raising their children unless they see blood flowing or broken bones because they don't want anybody to interfere with their own child raising. I don't know what the answer to people owning children like luggage is, but I know that we are living in a society that is very much against,

"It's takes a village to raise a child"

And sometimes I think, "It takes a village to get a parent to listen to a child."

So if you can't get your parent to listen, and you don't have another adult to help you make a parent listen, well....I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. But if you decide to go the Nayla route, I say tell the police first.

Whether your parent deaf or is the best parent in the history of parenting, sometimes you need everybody else to shut up so you can think about what to do next. A life is a lot to plan sometimes. Maybe instead of going the Nayla route, some can be brave enough to leave a message saying, 'I'm going to gone for x weeks, I"ll contact you on a specific date.'

If I had a time machine, that's what I'd go back and do.

By the way, let the rest of us all keep in mind that some teenagers and early-twenties-ers choose suicide in order to not disappoint parents who can't back off, shut up, and listen. It doesn't matter what a parent think he or she knows about a kid. It doesn't even matter if the parental units are right x years later about what path a kid should take. Everybody has to make their own way in this world. And parents have to respect that.

FEMALE SUPERHEROES WRITTEN BY WOMEN

Feeling Rebloggy

Jazmin Truesdale grew up reading comics. But, as she got older, she lost interest in the catchy crime-fighting plots and the mostly male casts of characters.

“When you get older you start to notice more things like sexism and racism in the entertainment you consume, and I was becoming more put off by comics,” Truesdale told The Huffington Post. Rather than turning away from her interest, however, she dove into it head-on, dreaming up a squad of heroines that better reflects the lives of real women reading comics today. 

“In the superhero industry, there are many physically powerful women and people of color but none of them are truly empowered,” Truesdale said. “They’ll show up for a comic issue or two and then disappear into the superhero void.”

~ Huff Post

Read More on how
Aza Comics is going to change the comic world.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aza-comics-female-superheroes_us_572a55f3e4b0bc9cb0459461?section=women&

RADICAL BROWNIES

For those not in the know, when a girl says she is a "brownie"  she means she's in the pre-girl scout. "Brownies" are to girl scouts as cub scouts and the boy scouts.

But the Radical Brownies are something a little different. Radical Brownies are a social justice oriented group. Instead of girls getting something like a "hostess badge" they can get a "Black Lives Matter" badge or an "LGBT Ally" badge.

[Radical Brownie] Co-founder Anayvette Martinez says the idea stemmed from her own daughter: “I saw the need for a group that would empower and encourage her to form bonds of sisterhood with other girls in her community. I began to imagine what a radical young girl’s social justice troop looked like; a group that centered and affirmed her experiences as a beautiful and brilliant brown girl against so many societal pressures to conform to mainstream ideals of girlhood.”

The stories you need to read, in one handy email

  

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The group also arrives at a time when non-white girls in the US find their identities policed on multiple axes. In schools, they already face disproportionate (and stratified) discrimination and are suspended at rates that far eclipse those of their white peers. Studies repeatedly show that suspensions can serve as a gateway in the “school-to-prison pipeline”, and often they are issued for reasons that boil down to the girls not being “ladylike” enough.

Radical Brownies teach girls to value themselves just as much as they value others. Sexism is real and it's real from a young age. This is an idea that should have come along a long time ago.  Put Anayvette Martinez on your list of heroes. 
Right now this seems like it's only located in Oakland. May this idea spread across the land.  Black and Brown girls need this. 



The link to an article on school discipline for girls again.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/us/school-discipline-to-girls-differs-between-and-within-races.html?_r=0

GYNNYA McMILLEN UPDATE 3: STAFF USED MARTIAL ARTS RESTRAINT DUE TO HOODIE

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. -- The day before a teenage Kentucky girl was found dead in her juvenile detention cell, staff used an "Aikido restraint" on her, a spokesperson for the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice confirmed Friday.

16-year-old Gynnya McMillen was restrained after refusing to remove her sweatshirt in order to be searched and photographed for booking at the Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center, the spokesperson, Stacy Floden, wrote in an e-mail.

And if we hadn't started screaming about what happened to her, we'd have never known.

Read More: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-detention-staff-used-martial-arts-on-gynnya-mcmillen/

GYNNYA McMILLEN UPDATE 2: NOTHING NEW, NOT EVEN THE CALLOUS DISREGARD

They called her breakfast. 

She didn't move

They didn't check on her



They called for a snack

She didn't move.

They didn't check on her



They asked her if she wanted to take a phone call

She didn't move

They didn't check on her



They, the adults running Kentucky's Lincoln Village Juvenile Detention Center, were supposed to check on her every 15 minutes. The interactions I just listed were much further apart than 15 minutes. Clearly, they didn't even check on her then.


Official excuses begin and end with Gynnya's behavior being consistent with non-response.

An expert quoted in the article below says that kids are in a kind of shock when they are first put into a juvenile detention center. Gynnya's behaving as if depressed --before they ignored the fact that she was dying or already dead-- doesn't require an expert's diagnosis. Someone should have been trying to get her to interact, to talk, telling her everybody is scared at first.

I'm straddling fury and tears.

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"My mother was calling her to check on her and see what was going on. And they hung up on her like four times. It kept getting disconnected. And then when she finally got through they said (McMillen) was unresponsive," Simms said.

It is not yet clear what time McMillen's mother first called, or why she was disconnected. It is also not clear why McMillen was alone in a cell or how often she was checked on throughout the night. In Kentucky, youths in isolation must have video surveillance at all times. That footage has been turned over to investigators.

McMillen's death is currently under investigation by the Kentucky State Troopers and the Justice Cabinet's Internal Investigation's Branch. Officials have so far indicated they believe McMillen died in her sleep...

Last week, Justice Cabinet Secretary John Tilley requested the investigations be expedited along with McMillen's autopsy, but Simms criticized the slow trickle of information so far....

~CBS NEWS

Read More:  

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/alarms-missed-day-gynnya-mcmillen-died-in-kentucky-juvenile-detention-experts/

Like I said, when 16 year old male, football players drop dead for no reason there's an expedited autopsy that shows SOMETHING.  People are paying attention long before the autopsy. Experts have something to say about what they thing MAY have happened.

Another article I read says that the-anonymous-they don't think her death was heart related.

We'll have to wait and see what killed Gynnya other than her care givers not bothering to give a damn  


More Info Here (unfamiliar website)http://wfpl.org/new-details-emerge-in-gynna-mcmillens-death/

SICK OF READING ABOUT WHITE BOYS AND DOGS, 11 YEAR OLD STARTS HER OWN BLACK GIRL BOOK DRIVE

Having grown tired of her school's reading syllabus, Dias decided to start #1000BlackGirlBooks, a book drive with the aim of collecting 1,000 books where black girls take the lead:

"I told [my mom] I was sick of reading about white boys and dogs," Dias said, pointing specifically to "Where the Red Fern Grows" and the "Shiloh" series. "'What are you going to do about it?’ [my mom] asked. And I told her I was going to start a book drive, and a specific book drive, where black girls are the main characters in the book and not background characters or minor characters.”

The little black girls rocks for real. This girl will go far. Remember her name: Marley Dias.

Read More:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/01/girl-starts-1000blackgirlbooks-book-drive.html?mid=fb-share-thecut 

ACROSS THE REALM: A FUBU SCI COMIC SERIES!!!

Feeling Rebloggy

LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY PRESENTS: 

"ACROSS THE REALM"

"Created by Isobel Mitton, an award-winning, Black-Canadian writer, Across the Realm is an immersive sci-fi book series set 600 years into the future where two worlds and ideologies collide: The North, a racially segregated land where Black, Asians and Caucasians live apart, and The South, a society where people of all backgrounds live and love together."

Why LLAG is supporting this: This is POC EVERYTHING!!!

Isobel is a Black woman, the artists creating the artwork are POC, and the entire storyline centers around POC characters! You have Korean commanders, Black high priests, and strong, kick-ass female protagonists...."

~LLAG

READ MORE:
LINK TO COMIC ON LINEhttps://www.facebook.com/theLLAG/posts/961845687240244?pnref=story 


Key: FUBU - "FOR US BY US" 

FILE THIS UNDER BLACK PROTEST WORK: SCHOLASTIC PULLS HAPPY SLAVE BOOK

Scholastic Pulls A Birthday Cake for George Washington Amid Slavery Backlash

Read More:
http://time.com/4184444/scholastic-birthday-cake-george-washington-slavery/



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ORIGINAL STORY

SCHOLASTIC'S CONTRIBUTION TO INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM PUBLISHED JUST IN TIME FOR MLK DAY
http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/01/scholastics-contribution-to.html

WITH WHITE REPUBLICANS AROUND, WHO NEEDS TERRORISTS? (FLINT MICHIGAN WATER CRISIS)

THE POISONING OF FLINT MICHIGAN'S WATER SUPPLY:

A LESSON IN ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM










REQUIREMENT 1:  
HAVE MOST OF THE PEOPLE BE BLACK

IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN
The Black Population of Michigan as of 2010 census 
was approximately 14%

The White Population of Michigan as of 2010 census 
was approximately 79%


WHILE IN FLINT MICHIGAN
The Black Population of Flint, Michigan as of 2010 census 
was approximately 57%

The White Population of Flint, Michigan as of 2010 census 
was approximately 37%

SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/26/2629000.html

REQUIREMENT 2: 
HAVE MANY OF THE PEOPLE BE POOR

"The past three decades have been rough for Flint. Like many blue-collar Michigan towns, it was fueled by the auto industry. General Motors plants kept it afloat for much of its prosperous history. But in the 1980s and 1990s, those plants began to close their doors, and when the jobs left, so did many of the people.

According to local officials, about 40% of residents are below the poverty rate. Fifteen percent of homes are boarded up and abandoned [which always leads to an dramatic increase in crime]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/11/health/toxic-tap-water-flint-michigan/

REQUIREMENT 3: 
HAVE A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR 
THAT HAS MORE REGARD FOR
MONEY THAN

1) LIVES HE SEES
AS LESS THAN HUMAN

AND ALSO

2) THE ENVIRONMENT


Nearly two years ago, in April of 2014 Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder appointed Emergency Manager Darnell Earley and tasked him to balance the budget of Flint. They decided they could save money by switching Flint's water supply from Lake Huron (which they were paying the city of Detroit for), to the Flint River 

They did this knowing that the Flint River had served as a dump for industrial waste for decades prior to the Clean Water Act of the 1970s and 1980s.

1. Black
2. Poor
3. Republicans Saving Money (Industrial Waste was dumped there in the first place because the black poor didn't count. And rumor has it, Republicans are trying to block water clean up regulations right now, in 2016)  


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/15/toxic-water-soaring-lead-levels-in-childrens-blood-create-state-of-emergency-in-flint-mich/


To make things even worse, these men failed to add an anti-lead preventive that is required by the federal government--in order to save money.  

I don't know if any of the children are dead of lead poisoning yet. But the children that live will suffer varying degrees of brain damage and other ailments from the lead poisoning.

But there are at least 10 people dead of Legionnaires Disease in Flint Michigan. And, so far, all signs point to the water as the source of that too.

Read Morehttp://usuncut.com/class-war/people-are-dying-in-flint-all-sings-point-to-water/

Read More
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/14/flint-mi-ten-dead-eighty-seven-infected-with-deadly-waterborne-bacteria-video/


Michigan's governor finally switched the water supply back, after 3 months of arguing with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha over the lead levels she was finding in children's blood due to the tainted water.  President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Flint Michigan to deal with the lead poisoning and to provide the people of Flint with drinkable water. 

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Some folks are calling for Governor Rick Snyder to face jail time. I, for one, do not think this is unreasonable.

Michael Moore is correct. Rick Snyder has managed to do what Americans have been afraid Al Qaeda or Isis might do. He managed to poison the water supply to a major American City. He managed to poison the water supply of Michael Moore's beloved Flint Michigan.

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An Open Letter 
From Michael Moore to Rick Snyder: 

"To poison all the children in an historic American city is no small feat. Even international terrorist organizations haven’t figured out yet how to do something on a magnitude like this.

But you did. Your staff and others knew that the water in the Flint River was poison — but you decided that taking over the city and “cutting costs” to “balance the budget” was more important than the people’s health (not to mention their democratic rights to elect their own leaders). So you cut off the clean, fresh glacial lake water of Lake Huron that the citizens of Flint (including myself) had been drinking for decades and, instead, made them drink water from the industrial cesspool we call the Flint River — a body of “water” where toxins from a dozen General Motors and DuPont factories have been dumped for over a hundred years. And then you decided to put a chemical in this water to “clean” it — which only ended up stripping the lead off of Flint’s aging water pipes, placing that lead in the water and sending it straight into people’s taps..."

http://www.occupy.com/article/arrest-michigan-governor-rick-snyder-open-letter-michael-moore