He is a she - and an AA.
No blame there - must go straight to the Republican Gov.
In this case it does, and it should. Under cost-cutting orders from the (republican) State of Michigan (who controls Flint city government) Flint stopped buying good water from Detroit and started pumping contaminated swill.
People complained, and the (republican) state leaders told them to STFU. It wasn’t until children started showing signs of brain damage that the (republican) state leaders thought their might be a problem. Too late - the corosive water destroyed the infrastructure.
If this were some rancher’s cattle in Oregon getting poisoned by federal water this place would be losing its collective mind. Black babies get poisoned, and, well...