Posted on 02/21/2021 6:42:07 PM PST by marshmallow
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Stately and deliberate, with a distinctive white streak in his black hair, the Rev. Wallace Charles Smith started his Valentine’s Day sermon at Shiloh Baptist Church by talking about love and vaccinations.
“That’s what love’s all about. When you get a vaccination, you are saying to everyone around you that you love them enough that you don’t want any hurt, harm or danger to befall them,” he said. “In the spirit of love, keep at it until you get your vaccination. That’s the only thing that’s going to erase this terrible scourge.”
The church was empty except for a camera crew and a tiny choir. Thanks to COVID-19, Smith’s Sunday sermons are now virtual affairs.
Still, health officials in the nation’s capital are hoping that Smith and other Black religious leaders will serve as community influencers to overcome what officials say is a persistent vaccine reluctance in the Black community. Smith and several other local ministers recently received their first vaccine shots.
Black residents make up a little under half of Washington’s population, but constitute nearly three-fourths of the city’s COVID-19 deaths. The District of Columbia is now offering vaccinations to residents over age 65, but numbers show that seniors in the poorest and blackest parts of Washington are lagging behind.
Officials partially blame historic distrust of the medical establishment, especially among Black seniors, who vividly remember medical exploitation horrors such as the Tuskegee syphilis study, where hundreds of impoverished rural Black men suffered syphilis effects with minimal treatment for decades as part of the medical study.
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Tuskegee II.
For the same reason, there may very well be "a persistent vaccine reluctance in flyover country."
Butt, butt, butt pretty sure pedo joe said at the town hall that hiss-panic folks and poc from the country and inner city was two stoopid to figer out how to go online and make an aperntment. Hep us joe.
WHERE’S OUR DOUGH JOE?!
Margaret Sanger employed the very same technic when she talked about getting pastors to take care of the more stubborn types.
What? So their fear porn is not doing enough of a good job that they have bring out the preachers to talk us into taking their experimental shots?
And some people stupidly assume black people are stupid …
Wait...they don’t have id’s and no idea how to get one...
Do Black churches believe in the preeminence of the Gospel of Jesus or do they only exist to serve their master, the Democrat Party?
So, who will blacks blame when this mad exercise in virtue signaling produces an abundance of adverse minority side effects.
Will they be convinced to sue white conservatives ?
How much longer can this utter madness go on ?
Everyone who takes this are the long term test guinea pigs
plain and simple
you are the experiment, you are the long term trial
Evil - vaccine industry - demoncraps. It’s a straight line
Wasn’t that Margaret Sanger’s strategy to get the black community to accept abortion? Yes, yes it was.
My opinion (only my opinion) but I think many serve the democrat party.
They’ll blame Trump, of course.
White, orange man bad.
White FRAUDci good.
Margaret Sanger would be so proud of this program.
The Heights and Depths of American Democracy
I stay on their mailing list because it's always good to know what the enemy is up to, and it's a cut above the DU.
Wow. Since it took place in 1932 and came to light in the 1960s, I guess it really would be old folks who are still traumatized by it. Myself... ummmm... I really think they made that part of the article up
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