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How to Overcome Vaccine Distrust Among Black Americans
MSN ^ | 12/29 | Rayshawn Ray

Posted on 12/29/2020 3:22:43 PM PST by nickcarraway

Blacks are 60 percent less likely than other racial groups to say they will definitely or probably take the COVID-19 vaccine. Here are recommendations for how America should address this gap to properly ensure that the group hardest hit by COVID-19 gets the vaccine they so desperately deserve and need.

Acknowledge that medical distrust is rational

Blacks have less trust in medical research, scientists and doctors than other racial groups. This is a rational response that needs to continue to be acknowledged. Knowledge about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, where 400 Black male farmers were untreated after contracting syphilis, has a direct impact on lowering health care utilization among Black men. Though there was a financial settlement and a public presidential apology, its legacy lives on and drives medical mistrust.

Similarly, the legacy of Henrietta Lacks lives on in the minds of Black people and the physical bodies of many of us.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: black; medicine; vaccine
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1 posted on 12/29/2020 3:22:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

All you have to do is keep them from finding out about the disease and death caused by vaccines.


2 posted on 12/29/2020 3:24:58 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe blacks are noticing that they would be 1/3 of the US population instead of 1/7th were it not for the racist eugenicists of the Rat Party and the med industry.


3 posted on 12/29/2020 3:25:14 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: nickcarraway

No helping some folks.


4 posted on 12/29/2020 3:25:15 PM PST by DAC21 (S)
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To: nickcarraway

Note the “superior” stance. The superior media has come up with something to convince blacks. I side with the blacks who are finally coming to realize that racial prejudice lives in the DNA of the party that started the Klan. (Note to the media, “That” party is YOUR party, oh silly little uninformed journalism majors.)


5 posted on 12/29/2020 3:25:27 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: reasonisfaith

But my personal opinion is we shouldn’t keep anyone from finding out about those things.


6 posted on 12/29/2020 3:25:31 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: nickcarraway

Funny how the racist media tries to portray blacks as stupid because they don’t trust vaccines.

Meanwhile, the smartest approach is to be skeptical of vaccines!


7 posted on 12/29/2020 3:26:52 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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I got an idea! Show all black folks that only a few thousand tested positive for HIV after getting the vaccine. That should reassure them


8 posted on 12/29/2020 3:27:06 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Do you have a citation on that?


9 posted on 12/29/2020 3:27:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: reasonisfaith

reasonisfaith wrote: “All you have to do is keep them from finding out about the disease and death caused by vaccines.”

You might want to throw in how blacks are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus and how many black lives could be saved by the vaccine.


10 posted on 12/29/2020 3:28:00 PM PST by DugwayDuke (Biden - Not My President!)
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Avoid the vax


11 posted on 12/29/2020 3:28:17 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Seruzawa

Don’t forget black abortion rates.


12 posted on 12/29/2020 3:28:36 PM PST by umgud
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Black Lives Matter

unless they’re being killed in the womb

then they don’t matter


13 posted on 12/29/2020 3:29:32 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: nickcarraway
https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2020/12/11/australia-drops-promising-covid-19-vaccine-after-volunteers-falsely-tested-positive-for-hiv/?sh=7bac8fe471b5

https://nypost.com/2020/10/20/some-covid-19-vaccines-could-increase-hiv-risk-researchers/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03570-0


14 posted on 12/29/2020 3:33:53 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: umgud

Abortion is the eugenicists’ main tool. After the libs degrade the populations’ general morale and honesty with welfare programs it becomes easier to convince people to murder their own children for convenience. The soul destroying welfare is of paramount importance.


15 posted on 12/29/2020 3:34:58 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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Though there was a financial settlement and a public presidential apology,

They tortured those people. Apology? Settlement? They didn't pay them crap and lied through their teeth for years.

It has nothing to do with skin color and has everything to do with them looking down their noses at everyone that is not in their click. And we're not in their click so how do you think they're going to treat us?

I don't trust them. I don't trust them. I don't trust them. I don't care who they pretend they give a shot to. I don't trust them.
16 posted on 12/29/2020 3:43:38 PM PST by ssfromla
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Leak the word out and let it be known that the vaccines are for Whiteys only.

That the vaccines are just another way to keep the blacks down. Watch and see what the results will be.

They’ll be clamoring after the vaccines like looters after a Target store.


17 posted on 12/29/2020 3:50:42 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve. DJT 11-07-20)
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To: nickcarraway

Just tell them they can’t have the vaccine, they will SCREAM RACISM and DEMAND it before any white person can get it.


18 posted on 12/29/2020 3:52:13 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Thanks.


19 posted on 12/29/2020 3:53:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Seruzawa

I agree with you, but it makes no sense.


20 posted on 12/29/2020 4:04:30 PM PST by umgud
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