Flint’s Broken System Wasn’t Built Overnight—It’s the Product of Decades of Decay, Activist Says

FLINT, Mich. — Community activist and Flint resident Arthur Woodson says the dysfunction plaguing Flint is the result of decades of corruption, failed leadership, and what he describes as a “machine within a machine” in the Democratic Party.

In a wide-ranging interview, Woodson didn’t hold back. “The Democratic Party has always been following my plantation slave owner,” he said. “We send free money to the city and it goes to the 520(c)(3)s and the pastors, the mislead the chiefs into the slaughterhouses.”