“Saturday Night Live” is suffering a reaction against a recent sketch about the vaccine’s hesitation in the black community.
This week’s episode featured actor Daniel Kaluuya from “Judas and the Black Messiah”, who opened his monologue with a joke about racism in the British royal family. After that, he participated in a sketch that now has some doctors and people within the black community crying a lot.
The sketch showed Kaluuya playing a doctor and the host of a game show entitled “Will You Take It?” In it, his family members, played by cast members Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd, Ego Nwodim and Punkie Johnson, received large sums of money simply to agree to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
In the sketch, Kaluuya’s character begins by offering his four family members $ 500 to simply get the vaccine. As the draft continues, the total amounts to $ 20,000, but it is never enough to lessen your family member’s hesitation to get the vaccine, despite the fact that almost 100 million people in the United States have received the dose.
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A family member notes that he will start doing this when the whites start shooting. When he is told that many people have received the injection, he paradoxically notes “you can’t trust whites”.
The character’s aunt refuses a dose because she says she read on Facebook that Christians cannot get the vaccine. Meanwhile, another relative reveals that he would do a number of things unfriendly to the coronavirus, such as large meetings, if he won the prize money, but still refused to get the vaccine, despite being at extremely high risk.
As Insider notes, it didn’t take long for some doctors to ridicule the sketch of painting a negative portrait of the black community, as well as undermining the work being done to spread awareness and availability of the vaccine in communities that CDC reports were disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
“How did that skit air?” Dr. Uché Blackstock, the founder of Advancing Health Equity, tweeted in response to the draft. “It is deeply problematic – mocking blacks by refusing the vaccine, especially without any context – past and continuing racism inside and outside health institutions. You should all know better now ”.
Emergency physician Benjamin Thomas noted that many in the black community do not hesitate, but that the vaccine is not available in their area.
“This is *% t not funny, @nbcsnl Playing with stereotypes and generalizations is a dangerous game, especially when 75,000 black lives were lost to # COVID19,” He wrote. “Research shows that more than 80% of blacks want the injection. Access to the vaccine >>> Hesitance to the vaccine ”.
“This skit is irresponsible because it further perpetuates vaccine disparities, as black Americans are ignorant of a good laugh and portrays black health professionals as manipulators,” he said. doctor Krys Foster wrote on Twitter. “The more I think about it, the more my stomach turns.”
Medical experts were not the only ones bothered by the “SNL” draft, with many viewers accessing Twitter to express their discontent with the way the program portrays the black community.
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Daniel Kaluuya starred in a ‘Saturday Night Live’ sketch about the vaccine’s hesitation in the black community.
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“Given that my own governor released the narrative that people in my predominantly Black county just don’t want the vaccine, this was not the best skit to present on a program like SNL.” a viewer wrote.
“There are MANY people, not ONLY blacks, who are skeptical about the vaccine, why was there a need to focus only on blacks? This could easily have included many other members of the SNL cast, doing that the writing, the vibes, everything about it, it was racist, ” added someone else.
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“I was angry at the SNL draft because I follow several black doctors who worked tirelessly to get accurate information about vaccines for black communities. It was a cheap shot, no pun intended,” noticed a third person.
“Wealthy whites are coming to the Black neighborhoods to get the limited amount of vaccines we have and the SNL playing on racist stereotypes …” another wrote.
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As of Tuesday morning, the new coronavirus infected more than 131,843,435 people in 192 countries and territories, resulting in at least 2,861,677 deaths. In the USA, all 50 states plus the District of Columbia reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, totaling more than 30,785,415 diseases and at least 555,615 deaths.