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Official Resigns After Blaming Flint Water Crisis On ‘N****rs Who Don’t Pay Their Bills’
Kate Abbey-Lambertz
An official at an agency that manages foreclosed homes in Flint, Michigan, has resigned after a recording surfaced Sunday in which he blames the city’s water crisis on “n****rs who don’t pay their bills.”
Phil Stair resigned as sales manager of the Genesee County Land Bank, the bank’s executive director, Michele Wildman, told MLive on Monday.
Note: A version of the audio file posted online by Truth Against The Machine and a transcript appear in full and uncensored form below.
Local environmental activist Chelsea Lyons recorded Stair explaining in May why he thought Flint, a city mired in debt, switched from buying Detroit’s pretreated Lake Huron water to using Flint River water, which sparked the crisis that has left the city without safe drinking water for several years.
After the 2014 switch, the city’s water plant failed to properly treat the more toxic water under orders from state officials, causing lead from old pipes to leach into city water.
But in his racist remarks, Stair traces the crisis to residents not paying their water bills:
Detroit was charging all its customers for the cost; they weren’t collecting from their residents. They weren’t shutting the water off, they were letting bills go forever, but they were charging everybody else, they covered them. Well, Flint has the same problems as Detroit, fucking ni**ers don’t pay their bills, believe me, I deal with them. I don’t want to call them ni**ers, shit, I have, shit, I just went to Myrtle Beach, 24 guys, and I was the only white guy. I got friends, I mean, there’s trash and there’s people that do this. … They just don’t pay their bills. Well, Detroit didn’t collect on their bills, so they charged everybody else, but Flint, Flint had to pay their bill to Detroit.
The comment comes about one minute into a 20-minute audio recording published by liberal news site Truth Against the Machine.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/official-resigns-blaming-flint-water-201119638.htmlSounds like Detroit shut off Flints water because they weren't paying and half the people in Detroit weren't paying either.