Flintown Kids

Good documentary movie talking about growing up on Flint, Michigan. The movie shows how youngsters on Flint have two ways to survive to the streets, one is Basketball and the other is drugs. The entire city was devastated after GM decided to move his factory to Mexico. Closing up the factory GM sent home thousands of workers, burying the only income source of thousands of families. The documentary features different stories of basketball players from Flint. Some of them have played in the NBA (Jason Richardson) but others couldn't make it out of the streets and ended up either in jail or murdered. This movie has shown me how hard is to survive in some parts of the US, and how decisions made by big corporations can kill entire cities. Maybe some intervention from authorities could have helped this city to keep afloat. From the documentary I can see there is no hope for these people.