A New York attorney for Flint, Michigan, who is representing thousands of children who were poisoned by lead by drinking contaminated water from the city’s Flint River, has come under fire for comments he made about the city in a 2018 podcast episode that recently resurfaced.
Corey Stern can be heard referring to the city, whose majority Black population has for several years dealt with a clean water crisis, as an “s–hole” on an episode of the “Race Wars” podcast that first aired on Aug. 2, 2018, the Detroit Free Press reported.
In the episode, Stern uses the expletive to describe the city during a conversation with the hosts about U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and how he was a fan of the Democratic former presidential candidate.
“In 2016, when Bernie ran against Hillary … I had a T-shirt, my kids had T-shirts, we were all Bernie people,” Stern said in the 2018 podcast episode.
The attorney, who described himself earlier in the episode as a liberal, continued, saying, “So, I like Bernie. In 2016, I’m like in Flint, Michigan, fighting for these kids. I’m spending time there; it’s a s–hole, and nobody wants to be there. I’m there every week.”
The comments were recently brought to attention during a recent episode of the “Roland Martin Unfiltered” digital public affairs program, according to the Detroit Free Press.
After host Roland Martin played the soundbite from the 2018 podcast during his show, Kevin Thompson, pastor of the Saint Mark Baptist Church of Flint, responded to Martin, “They have to do their research because if they did the research, they will understand that we were the leaders in the automobile industry, causing the world to turn.”
Thompson also said, “This is a wonderful city….It’s hard to hear something like that in the city that I’m born and raised, and I have to stand up for the people of the city of Flint.”
Stern also noted in the podcast episode that he…
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