Hey, racist baby! How are you? I haven’t seen you in a while.
Hello my brother. A Lakers salami.
What does that mean, you little fanatic baby? Wait … are you trying to say “As-Salaam-Alaikum?”
Yes. My father says that this is how “you” greet each other. Since the government arrested us and took away my rights not to wear a mask, I understand it much better. As the great Moses Malone said to Jay Pharoah: “Let my people go!”
Stop it, my little nationalist. You are going too far. Please don’t tell me that your racist parents turned you into an anti-masker.
Not all masks. The white hoods are still OK. But today, my mother says “the oppressor wants to make us slaves”, so she allowed me to hear some advice from you. Also, she said that you would understand why we shouldn’t get the vaccine.
Well, my little Nazi neophyte, I hate to disappoint you, but I’ll get the vaccine as soon as I get the chance.
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But you are black! I thought the blacks weren’t getting the vaccine? I read in the newspaper and I saw this in Time Magazine.
I know the racist baby.
But it is just one thing that the media does to pretend to be interested in “talking about race”. According to a Reuters Poll, about 37% of blacks said they were not interested in getting the COVID vaccine, compared with 30% of whites. AN Kaiser Family Foundation Research found that 62 percent of blacks “definitely” would get the coronavirus vaccine or “probably get it”. Most of the people-Black or white – they said they planned to get the vaccine.
Only 15 percent of black adults said that “definitely not get the vaccine, ”which is literally the exactly the same percentage of whites who expressed this feeling.
Instead of trying to convince black Americans to get the vaccine, the media should focus on the largest group that is hesitant to be inoculated against the coronavirus.
What group is this?
White people.
These same polls show that Republicans are the largest group of people in the United States who responded that they “probably wouldn’t understand” or “definitely wouldn’t understand”. Look at this chart.
According Pew Research, about 53% of whites identify themselves as republicans. And, since there are about 197 million whites in America, this means that about 27 million white people may not be vaccinated against this deadly virus, compared to 15 million black Americans who hesitate to vaccinate.
But we all have valid reasons, right? I know that blacks are concerned about the repetition of the government’s experience in which doctors injected syphilis into Tuskegee airmen. See, I know my black history!
Not exactly, racist baby.
The Tuskegee syphilis study was a 40-year medical experiment in which public health officials told black men who tested positive for syphilis that they were being treated for “bad blood”. In fact, they were not being treated at all.
Wow. So I can understand why that makes blacks reluctant.
Yes.
Furthermore, blacks are not reluctant because of the Tuskegee experiment.
Although the narrative elaborated by news reports paints blacks as uneducated conspiracy theorists, 71% of black patients said they wanted to proceed with caution because they were concerned about side effects. The same percentage of blacks said they were concerned about the short period of development. Only 48% of black adults expressed a lack of confidence in the developers’ willingness to take into account the needs of blacks.
The mumps vaccine (the fastest vaccine ever developed) took four years. African Americans make up only 5 percent of participants in clinical trials, and more than 90 percent of volunteers in the AstraZeneca phase I and II clinical trials were White. “A similar lack of diversity was found in the Modern Phase I test and Phase I and II study by Pfizer and BioNTech, ”Healthline reports. In addition, a 2018 report from the United States Department of Health and Human Resources assessed revealed that even the most objective measures of health quality showed that whites received better care from doctors than black patients.
This is not paranoia; this is just science.
I feel you, my brother. That is why we, the oppressed, have to be together.
Not exactly, my brother. The whites did not care about these things.
According to the KFF, 71 percent of Republicans believe that vaccination is a personal choice, while everyone else says it is “part of everyone’s responsibility to protect others”. Half of white people and 57 percent of Republicans who were concerned about the vaccine attributed their reluctance to the belief that “the risks of COVID-19 are being overstated”.
So how could we get white Republicans to get the vaccine?
Well, considering medical discrimination, lack of health care and social inequality that whites have never had to deal with and have never faced, maybe I have five marketing slogans that can work:
- Each time a white person is vaccinated, a black person loses the right to vote.
- The vaccine makes children immune to reverse racism, the gay agenda and The Project 1619.
- Barack Obama, Ilhan Omar and Black Lives Matter created the coronavirus to destroy America and this is the only way to prevent white genocide.
- One of the side effects of the vaccine is that white women will no longer find black men attractive.
- The vaccine will give you the ability to find Hillary’s emails, “stop stealing” and clap your hands.
And how are they going to convince blacks to get the vaccine?
As a certified and registered Negro, I have no idea.
Perhaps they should be sure that the vaccine is safe. Seventy-two percent of blacks interviewed said they plan to be vaccinated as soon as it is available or “wait until it is available for a while to see how it is working for other people”.
I, however, know what it will not work.
Condense the historically legitimate and scientifically correct concerns of blacks into a collective black paranoia, rather than addressing the actions that whites, the medical community and America really did and are still doing for black people never works. Getting our favorite rappers and politicians to pose for photos is also unlikely to work.
My only suggestion is – and I know it sounds crazy – and if they explained the importance of vaccination to blacks as if they were people? What if the health sector recognized the damage it caused to non-white communities and made a commitment to treating black patients in the same way as white patients? Maybe they should send health professionals to churches and black neighborhoods – not because of some kind of affirmative action mandate, but because these are the communities that COVID-19 is reaching most strongly.
On second thought, they’ll probably try to get Beyoncé and LeBron to post taking the picture on Instagram.
Is that why you’re getting the vaccine?
No, I don’t want to die and I don’t want to be responsible for the deaths of other people. I have this thing about black life; I believe that they matter.
Besides, I want to leave.
Well, I have to go to the mask protest and I haven’t cleaned my gun yet. See you later.
Salami Lakers for you, my little friend.