Detroit Free Press, April 26, 2016: (Op-Ed) In Flint water crisis, race is more a distraction than explanation
“You see, for as much as Flint is a story about how we treat people of color, it is also — I would say more so — a story about how we treat the poor, the way we render them invisible. That was also the story of Hurricane Katrina. Remember news media’s shock at discovering there were Americans too poor to escape a killer storm?”