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First I would like to say thank you for offering us this opportunity to receive extra credit because if you did not I would have missed out on a great opportunity. I believe this was one of the best speakers that I have heard here at Western Michigan University. I enjoyed the simple fact that Mike Moore offered a question and answer which allowed audience members to ask him questions. I liked the fact that Mike Moore is a democrat and he also hates Donald Trump and George Bush. Before Michael began to speak they had interesting quotes from him playing on a PowerPoint. The quote that stood out to me the most is, “I was raised to think we are all brothers and sisters no matter what race creed or color.” That quote stood out to me because I overheard students saying, all those people who are going to see Mike Moore are crazy because he is racist.” That is so not true. …show more content…
Mike said, Flint Michigan is not suffering through a water crisis it is suffering through a Race Crime. I totally agree with what he is saying it would not have happened if this was a city like Traverse City which is another thing that he said. The people of Flint are majority African Americans and this would not have happened to a predominately white city. I did not ever hear about the meme that Michael posted in which he had a pair of handcuffs with a hash tag saying #ArrestSnyder. Michael also said do not send bottled water to Flint for one they are bad for the environment and secondly Flint would need approx. 20 million bottled water daily. Overall this was a great guest speaker and I would love to go and see him again in the

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