BLM NY says vaccine mandates/passports are racist

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A Black Lives Matter leader is threatening an “uprising” over mandatory vaccinations and vaccine passports in New York.

New York City’s vaccine mandate began on Sept. 13. It requires proof of vaccination entry to certain public spaces, including gyms, restaurants, and bars, unless a person has an approved medical exemption.

New York officials call the program the “Key to NYC Pass.”

Hawk Newsome, the co-founder and chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York (BLMGNY), argues the mandates are fundamentally racist, given the low rate of vaccination in the black community.

Some 85.6 percent of black people in the state of New York remain without one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to state data.

“I think, in a perfect world, [vaccine requirements] should be business by business. But it could be a slippery slope, so the mandate should be removed completely,” Newsome told the Washington Examiner.

“It’s not gonna be white men in suits on Wall Street who are gonna get stopped. There’s such hypocrisy in this thing.”

The Examiner points out some 70 percent of black people in New York City aged 18 to 44 have not received the injection. There is a variety of reasons claimed for the lag in shots, including religious beliefs and distrust of government.

“It’s black people who have a natural distrust of the vaccine,” Newsome said. He cited the Tuskegee Syphilis Study as an example of historic distrust by black people of the U.S. medical community, despite the fact vaccines are accessible to people of all racial groups.

BLMGNY is advocating for the complete abolition of vaccine requirements, not only in the city but also on a national level.

Newsome, a Baptist, told the news outlet he is especially worried the vaccine mandates do not allow for religious exemptions.

“How dare they remove religious exemptions? It’s the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen,” Newsome said. “Now the government has decided your God doesn’t matter? I love God.”

People participate in a rally and march against COVID-19 mandates on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Chivona Newsome, a fellow co-founder of BLMGNY, threatened an “uprising” in the wake of the mandates.

“We’re putting this city on notice that your mandate will not be another racist social distance practice,” she declared at a protest on Monday, according to the Examiner report “Black people are not going to stand by, or you will see another uprising. And that is not a threat. That is a promise.”

“The vaccination passport is not a free passport to racism,” she concluded.

The pushback against vaccination requirements is not limited to the general NYC area.

As Breitbart News reported, a wider spectrum of black voters is driving down President Joe Biden’s approval rating after the administration mandated vaccines for medium and large businesses on September 8.


According to a Monday Morning Consult poll earlier this month, Biden’s job performance has shrunk five points to 71 percent among black voters since the vaccine mandate. Black voter disapproval of Biden also increased seven points to 24 percent.

The poll additionally indicates support for Biden’s handing of the coronavirus crisis has dropped nine points to 61 percent since the end of August.

The poll illustrates unvaccinated black voters have notched Biden’s job performance lower since the vaccine mandate.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021 ... id-system/

[Chap]

“It’s not gonna be white men in suits on Wall Street who are gonna get stopped. There’s such hypocrisy in this thing.”

That is, unfortunately, likely to be the case. The police in many white-majority countries do tend to stop black people for checks at a disproportionate frequency compared to whites. Vaccine passports will give them yet another reason. (NB: I am in favour of vaccine passports myself.)

He cited the Tuskegee Syphilis Study as an example of historic distrust by black people of the U.S. medical community, despite the fact vaccines are accessible to people of all racial groups.

The difficulty here is real. Quite a lot of not very well educated or informed white people refuse vaccination, mostly on grounds that are not very strong, but at least don't include the idea that their ethnicity might be being targeted by malevolent people in authority. The problem is that not very well educated or informed black people can refer to real cases of black people being grossly mistreated in medical experiments such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, or of having their special medical needs and risks discounted by the (majority white) medical profession.

So, while black people would, like white people, be better off getting vaccinated (please do get vaccinated, if you are a black person reading this!), their reasons for feeling suspicious are at the least not entirely crazy crazy.

[Alf'Omega]

You will learn over time that virtually everything ajax posts is about race in some way.

[Chap]

You will learn over time that virtually everything ajax posts is about race in some way.

Oh, I've known that since he first appeared on the old board. I'm not new here, you know.

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Breitbart's claims about the percentage of unvaccinated black people in New York are both wrong and misleading. Here's the link to the data they use. https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/va ... aphic-data Study it for a few minutes. Note that the totals add up to 100%. What this data shows is the racial composition of all people who were vaccinated, not the percentage of each racial group that is vaccinated. This is example number eleventy six of why everything published in Breitbart needs to be fact checked.

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Gorilla

[Res Ipsa]

Breitbart's claims about the percentage of unvaccinated black people in New York are both wrong and misleading. Here's the link to the data they use. https://covid19vaccine.health.ny.gov/va ... aphic-data Study it for a few minutes. Note that the totals add up to 100%. What this data shows is the racial composition of all people who were vaccinated, not the percentage of each racial group that is vaccinated. This is example number eleventy six of why everything published in Breitbart needs to be fact checked.

Give us the actual numbers then.

They're on the page I linked to, but you have to change the the percentages to numbers. Here's Breitbart's claim:

Some 85.6 percent of black people in the state of New York remain without one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, according to state data.

In fact, if you go to the link the article cites, the actual percentage of black folks who have not received at least one does is about 50%. Go to the site and check my math.

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Gorilla

[Alf'Omega]

https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1176340

You should really get to know someone before claiming him a friendly.

[Alf'Omega]

You will learn over time that virtually everything ajax posts is about race in some way.

Oh, I've known that since he first appeared on the old board. I'm not new here, you know.

I was addressing cult