1. Her passion for children’s health is what I believed heavily impacted the Flint community. The lead in the water could have effected the children of Flint’s cognitive and behavioral problems. She had to go and find undeniable proof, proof that even the government cannot brush aside or call it a hoax, to get Flint to get back to receiving clean and healthy water.
2. What I make people aware of is African American people in the health system. I do not just mean how they are treated differently when it comes to medical attention, but the diseases they have compared to others. For example, my mother has sickle cell anemia; it is actually nicknamed the “brown skin disease” because only people of color can get this chronic illness. Just from what I have witnessed myself being in the hospital with my mom, if you put a sickle cell patient and a flu patient on the same floor, doctors and nurses would give the flu patient whatever medication they need, but with a sickle cell patient, they would reduce the amount of pain medications for them, and if they ask for more, they are considered drug seeking. I just think it is important that people, especially people of color, can see the difference of treatment between patients. Most people do not know that sickle cell month is actually in September. Why? People are not aware about sickle cell anemia the way they should be.
3. What I can do is do my part. I always take care of the Earth any way that I can when it comes to the environment. I pick up after myself, pick up an trash that I see on the ground, and with my church, once a week throughout the entire summer, we go around with our sticks, gloves, and trash bags and find any thing trash related on the ground in our area and pick it up to either put in the trash or recycle.