Modern day lynching in Flint

[Augiedog]

The lead poisoning of African American families is Flint Michigan is nothing more than a contemporary version of a Jim Crow era lynching. Just as separate but equal guaranteed less of everything for African Americans: education, jobs, medical care and access to good food and public places, poisoned water has become a new symbol of shame and hate. Michigans Republican Party and governor Schnieder have lynched Flint. The rope is poisoned water, the tree is is austerity budgeting and the executioner is Schnieder and his pack of greed driven, mob of wanna be rulers.

[KamaAina]

1. More than a third of Flint residents are white.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint,_Michigan#2010_census

The racial makeup of the city was 37.4% White, 56.6% African American, 0.5% Native American, 0.5% Asian, 1.1% from other races, and 3.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.9% of the population. Non-Hispanic Whites were 35.7% of the population in 2010, compared to 70.1% in 1970.

They're being poisoned just as horribly.

[Skittles]

2. it's the poor that repukes despise

yup

[Wounded Bear]

7. True...

but the fact that most are black is an added "benefit" for them, I think.

[Igel]

3. BLM.

Emphasize as you see fit.

[Igel]

4. Lynchings was post- or extra-judicial vigilantilism.

If the law wouldn't or couldn't try, convict, and execute a suspect, a crowd would do it.

I personally think modern-day lynchings in which somebody is not indicted or is acquitted and yet the community calls for some sort of vendetta to punish the obviously-guilty party as closer to what Judge Charles Lynch did and what the practice named after him involved.

Closer than strained metaphors and extended analogies in need of detailed explanations.

[Augiedog]

5. Lynchings were a form of terrorism. Used to keep a segment of society in in fear for their lives if

that segment didn't kneel to the will of the terrorists.

[malaise]

6. Snyder poisoned every child in Flint - all 8,000+ of them

Michael Moore just reminded Chris Hayes