Mama So'l one of the dopest lyricist, rapper, poets to ever step foot up to a mic. Ok, as you can tell I'm biased simply because I observed her career grow from back in the day. Heads bounce back and forth to lyrics cleverly executed by a woman whose life story was drastically influenced by the Flint water crisis. "Blatant terrorism, premeditated murder you deserve to go to prison" all you can do is ask yourself why? On April 25, 2014, officials looking to save money switched Flint, Michigan’s drinking water supply from the Detroit city system to the Flint River. This new water was highly corrosive. Because city and state officials broke federal law by failing to treat the water properly, lead leached out from aging pipes into thousands of homes. Soon after the switch, Flint residents complained about dark-colored, foul-tasting, smelly water as well as skin rashes and hair loss. Independent tests found that a significant proportion of samples had lead levels well above the “action level” for lead set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In fact, some samples showed lead levels more than 100 times the action level. Some 9,000 children, who are particularly sensitive to lead and its effects, were exposed to contaminated water. As more and more citizens voiced their concerns, state officials were “callous and dismissive,” according to a report by the independent Flint Task Force in October 2015. Government officials acknowledged a problem only after residents elevated public awareness and garnered national attention, but unfiltered tap water remained unsafe to drink, and not enough was being done to ensure that all Flint residents had safe drinking water at home. I stumbled upon the video "Hard To Swallow" while flicking through youtube almost forgetting about the horrific crisis that's being felt by Flint residents still today. Sol has always been consistent in her life mission: Justice: her lyrics speak hard to swallow truth wrapped around social activism.
Read the latest update at:https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/19/flint-residents-will-get-their-day-court-after-federal-judge-rules-they-can-sue-epa
Read the latest update at:https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/19/flint-residents-will-get-their-day-court-after-federal-judge-rules-they-can-sue-epa
