Carolyn Kaster/ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama drinks water as he finishes a speech on May 4, 2016, at Flint Northwestern High School about the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
Carolyn Kaster/ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama drinks water as he finishes a speech on May 4, 2016, at Flint Northwestern High School about the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

For the past two years people in Flint, Michigan, have been given poisoned water that exposed an entire generation of kids to lead, a deadly toxin that can permanently damage developing brains.

This week President Barack Obama traveled there to tell them they’ll be okay. Kinda.

“If you know that your child may have been exposed and you go to a health clinic, a doctor, a provider, and are working with them, then your child will be fine,” Obama said. And he drank a glass of filtered Flint water. 

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