Flint Demographics

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Historical View of Flint, Michigan

The Demographics:
Flint, Michigan is the largest city and c According to the United States Census Bureau who conducted their study of the population based upon Flint, Michigan had a population of 102,399 in April of 2010. Of this population 40.4% were of white origin alone, 54.3% were of Black or African American descent, Hispanic or Latino at 3.9% Then it goes on to show a small percentage of the populous were American Indian 0.3%, Asian being 0.2%, and two or more races holding 4.0% of the population. Of this population 7.6% were under the age of 5, 26% were under the age of 18, 11.9 were 65 year of age and older, 51.8 of this population was female, and finally with 40% of this population living below
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The poorer neighborhoods within the communities of Flint were affected by this incident greatly as they were the ones that were hit the hardest as 40% of Flint’s population live below the poverty line so what can they do? They voice their concerns but are subject to help only when help is given so they mostly had to deal with what they were given. “Terraca Rogers, who says she has lost faith in the city, now trusts only bottled water to meet the drinking needs of her three …show more content…
In the given text it states, “At the time of Marx’s writings, the economy was dominated by industrial production of commodities in factories. As a result of this organization of the economy, Marx saw two main classes emerge: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The bourgeoisie (also known as the capitalists) owned the factories, banks, etc. and had goods to trade. The proletariat only owned their own labor power.” (Lesson: WEEK 2: Karl Marx – Conflict Theorist – macro level of analysis. (n.d.). Retrieved May 19, 2018) Karl Marx saw society as these two different classes, the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat, the haves and the have-nots. The higher-class society the wealthy business owners that get rich off of the work of their employees (Bourgeoisie), and the working-class society the poorer class that has to sell off their labor to earn a living. (Proletariat). In this case of the Flint Water Crisis we have the city officials, the people who run the city and make all the decisions that are affecting its people would be considered the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat would be our working-class citizens of the