“These children were poisoned and slain not because they were despised but because they entered so little into the calculations of the powerful that they were unworthy even of contempt. They had to die because they were inconvenient.” Matthew Walther: Don’t Forget About Flint. “If you want to understand what some of us mean when we say that Washington, D.C., doesn’t care about the post-industrial America of poverty, drug abuse, and spiritual despair, what even President Trump means when he talks about American carnage, get off exit 7 on I-475 in Michigan and head down Court Street until you get to the Flint Children’s Museum on the campus of Kettering University.”