There's a white privilege to denouncing everyone who refuses to get a COVID-19 vaccine. For those who are Black, there's systemic racism to consider.
I realized this on Monday as I watched him, dressed in an impeccable blue suit, and scowling and pointing at no one in particular as he laid into the “right-wing echo chamber” and the millions of Americans who have yet to get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Newsom can simplistically blame conservative pundits for “profiteering off misinformation” and unvaccinated people for listening to them. All of this makes for an uncomfortable place to be as a vaccinated Black person at a time when Black people are both dying of COVID-19 at disproportionate rates and failing to get vaccinated at disproportionate rates, putting them at high risk for contracting the rapidly spreading Delta variant.Dr. Roberto Vargas, an assistant dean at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, put it this way.
It started the moment I walked in the door to my father’s house. He was watching TV news and swearing at a Black man who was explaining why he hadn’t been vaccinated and, despite the threat of the Delta variant, had no intention of doing so. A few days after that conversation, I learned that my childhood friend and most of her family hadn’t gotten vaccinated. We all had spent more than an hour in a crowded restaurant. There wasn’t a mask in sight, even on the servers.
Another friend told me I couldn’t drive her car because I had been on a plane recently and she was scared that whatever I exhaled in her car would give her the Delta variant. This was after we had been sitting together, maskless at a restaurant for about an hour.I left Ohio angry, but also depressed and bewildered. I can understand the fear and distrust of institutions that has driven my family and friends to seek out fringe information. ButL.A.
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