Posted on 09/22/2021 9:17:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s a rule in the national media that vaccine hesitancy is worthy of shame and scorn, right up until it collides with their most precious cause, the Black Lives Matter movement.
Hesitant (white) nurses? Outcast.
Hesitant (white) Facebook moms? Shun.
Hesitant (white) Trump supporters? Guillotine.
But there’s oddly been no prescription for the Black Lives Matter crew in New York who are accusing the city of racial discrimination by mandating vaccines for public, indoor activity.
Hawk Newsome, the co-founder and chairman of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, was quoted Saturday in the New York Times saying that restaurants “are using vaccine mandates to enforce their racist beliefs and excluding black patrons.”
At a protest Monday in front of New York restaurant Carmine’s, Chivona Newsome, also a co-founder of the group, said of the vaccine mandates, “What is going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, from rounding up black people, from snatching them off the train, off the bus?”
She further issued the threat that BLM was “putting this city on notice that your mandate will not be another racist social distance practice” and that “Black people are not going to stand by, or you will see another uprising .” She said vaccine verification “is not a free passport to racism.”
The catalyst for those remarks was an incident at Carmine’s last week wherein three black women from Texas were charged for assaulting a hostess at the restaurant, allegedly over a vaccine verification dispute and, as a lawyer for the women subsequently claimed, because the hostess, who is of Asian descent, used a racial slur.
A lawyer representing Carmine’s has disputed the allegation about a racial slur. Video footage of the incident includes no audio, but what can be seen is that the three women were being led inside the restaurant by a member of staff who was not the hostess. But once inside, the hostess is seen exiting to return to her post, when all three customers turn to follow her back outside. One of them approaches the hostess from behind and begins speaking as the others circled. A fight ensues.
Lawyers for both sides agree, though, that the dispute was not over the vaccination status of the three women, but over additional members of the party, several men, who did not have vaccine cards.
The details are kind of beside the point, though. Black residents make up a higher rate of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in New York City than white residents. They’re also vaccinated at a lower rate, with 45 percent of New York City’s adult black population having been fully vaccinated, versus 56 percent of white adults.
I don’t care if anyone, regardless of race, chooses not to receive a vaccine against COVID. That’s their dice to roll. But imagine a white Trump supporter saying his right to dine indoors among strangers shall not be infringed.
Dr. Leana Wen would be on CNN for 24 hours straight assuring us that there is no constitutional entitlement to Restaurant Week.
But because we’re talking about Black Lives Matter, which can do no wrong in the media’s eyes, suddenly vaccine mandates aren’t so pressing an issue. Suddenly, groups of people with a specific demographic raging against mandates aren’t so worthy of ridicule.
Remember that the next time a mousey CNN correspondent does one of those ungodly long segments on harm to “public health” caused by vaccine hesitancy in rural communities (Trump supporters). This isn’t about public health. It’s about politics.
A lot of people I work with will be harmed by a mandate; white, black, hispanic, Asian, etc.
Many are talking of refusing and/or quitting.
That probably better, since I can never see myself aligned with those Burn Loot Murder marxists.
ULM
Unvaccinated Lives Matter
Good! This needs to be encouraged. Join one of their rallies.
“Sand in the gears!”
And clouds birds making noise wind blowing.................
This is going to be interesting, at least.
- It will undermine support for the racist BLM agenda, even among the Demagogic Party stooges (like most of my family).
- When it becomes clear that the gubmint is just as happy if the BLM supporters don't want to have the vaccine, it'll be a big glass of reality to those very same DP stooges.
- The apparent indifference toward whether "people of color" (y'know, Crips, Bloods, other thugs who fight each other all the time) get vaccinated will undermine support for BLM among the formerly mostly solid block of black voters, when they realize they're a-holes. I say black, because that's what the "B" is for. If BLM gave a **** about Latinos, Hindus, etc, it wouldn't be a "B".
- Rival street gangs Antifa and BLM will not finally reconcile over this, because BLM obviously has a great big target on its back.
- Partisan Media Shills will try to redirect and spin attention away from this, concentrating on the DNC talking points about how this or that person you've never heard of had been well known for opposing masks, vaccines, etc, and just died a horrible death, and it served them right.
Great moniker! Jim Crovid
If this gets too over the top, BLM will have finally found a
way to be labeled a terrorist group.
After all that has transpired, this is what will have taken
to accomplish that.
Big government will have revealed it’s ugly side for all to
see.
“restaurants “are using vaccine mandates to enforce their racist beliefs and excluding black patrons.””
This is a completely valid legal argument, even without the “racist beliefs” part. All you have to do is show there is a disparate impact against a protected group, and it doesn’t matter what the reason for the impact is; the business is liable for violating federal civil rights law. Violating it to deny public accommodations like dining in restaurants is a really big no-no.
This is an opportunity.
Based on past experience, the GOP will blow it.
Pass the popcorn.
Post of the thread.
Do it do it do it! Hopefully this leads to protesting democraps as well
I triple dog dare them.
They are still the enemy, my friend… Have no illusions. But by all means yes if they can be used, use them. Let them take the first hit.
I’m gonna have to rethink my position on mandates.
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