In this March 26, 2020, photo, Rahmell Peeples walks in his neighborhood during an interview in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
Posted on 04/05/2020 5:24:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW YORK - Just as the new coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, gym members in New York City frantically called the fitness center where Rahmell Peebles worked, asking him to freeze their memberships.
Peebles, a 30-year-old black man who’s skeptical of what he hears from the news media and government, didn’t see the need for alarm over the virus.
“I felt it was a complete hoax,” Peebles said. “This thing happens every two or four years. We have an outbreak of a disease that seems to put everybody in a panic.”
Peebles is among roughly 40 million black Americans deciding minute by minute whether to put their faith in government and the medical community during the coronavirus pandemic. Historic failures in government responses to disasters and emergencies, medical abuse, neglect and exploitation have jaded generations of black people into a distrust of public institutions.
“I’ve just been conditioned not to trust,” said Peebles, who is now obeying the state’s stay home order and keeping his distance from others when he goes out.
Some call such skepticism the “Tuskegee effect” — distrust linked to the U.S. government’s once-secret study of black men in Alabama who were left untreated for syphilis. Black people already suffer disproportionately from chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease and are far more likely to be uninsured.
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In this March 26, 2020, photo, Rahmell Peeples walks in his neighborhood during an interview in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
No doubt the requirement to show ID to get medical attention is intended to keep black people from getting it.
Seriously? Now they are playing the race card?
Gee, this must mean that this person did not trust Obama during the 2009 outbreak of H1N1.
Because EVERYTHING is racist.
AOC and Fauxcahontas have demanded it be so!
Cracka fault
I can’t believe it took this long actually.
Because EVERYTHING is racist.
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and EVERYTHING must be about THEM.
Like children.
So this idiot is afraid of Democrats?
What the hell is the purpose of this article! OH, I get it. To get America’s #1 privileged victim group angry and set them to complaining, so they can say Trump hates Black people.
Bullshit article. Devolved into the Tuskegee Study rather than current news.
Of course it did not mention that in the 1930s that was all conducted by Democrats.
“Peebles is among roughly 40 million black Americans deciding minute by minute whether to put their faith in government and the medical community during the coronavirus pandemic.”
...you’re a fool if you do.
Rahmell Peebles, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton (at el) probably all have health insurance which was mandated by HRH BHO, and never read by Pelosi...
yawn
I think an African shamen remedy would be three chicken thigh bones strung on a cord and worn around you neck
Fine...support your local witchdoctor, then.
It’s a free country!
What is the evidence that black people, collectively, don’t trust the federal government? You’d think they’d mostly be voting for small-government conservatives if that were true.
Get a load of this.
ANOTHER AP SCARE, FRIGHTEN, POINT, SEPARATE, BLAME AND END UP HATING.
RINSE
REPEAT
IGNORE
“you’re a fool if you do”
Yeah, it was foolish of me to go to the ER when I shattered my wrist and I had to have plates, pins, and screws put in by an orthopedic surgeon. Or when I was 18 and my appendix burst I was probably foolish to go to the ER and then have my appendix removed by a surgeon...
I’ve been such a fool...
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