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Infrastructure, which affects the very water we drink. and so the issue of lead and pipes, when water comes into the drinking water, it doesn't have lead on the planet. when it goes through the distribution system and to your home, there is a chance it can pick up lead from aging pipes. when you live in a city that has very old pipes, or when you live in a home that has old pipes in that home, then you increase the chances that lead will be able to reach your drinking water. that's what happened in flint. that's what happened in benton harbor. so that's where you really see these disparities. ...
More likely to not have access to clean -- i mean to indoor plumbing, tiffany. >> wow. >> in this day and age. >> that is so hard to imagine. kim, i'll tell you, it is not just the drinking supply of water that's drying up. it is also these lead pipes. this is a big deal. the biden administration is trying to replace all the lead pipes. something interesting is the racial disparity in this. it is stark. the cities in michigan, ben harbor, on the heels of glint. -- flint. 84% of the people are black. on the other side of the bridge that connects these cities, it is the inverse. population is 83...
Take immediate action to write a new voting rights law. what would you like to see in that measure. 50 states, separate and unequal schemes of voting, we really need the constitutional right to vote. i would like to see that. i would like to see what we have loost be regained. and if it needs to be expanded, it might be. emergency management schemes from detroit to ben harbor. with that person having the right to sell off assets, the right to end labor union contracts, there's a real attack up on democracy. that case is in the court as we speak today. they have said -- of course, we saw the ma...
Think we have seen thus far with all the racial slurs and racist jokes, even the joke that came out from a federal judge in montana, that we don't live in a post-racial society. public act 4 has been implemented in a way where over 50% of the african americans in michigan their vote is null and void. benton harbor, flint, highland park, coming to detroit, so i do believe there is a racial component to the implementation, but not just race but also class, because african americans and then low income communities so we must stand up and fight not for the black right to vote, not for the white ri...