Do We Still Suppor BLM?

After Altercation at Restaurant, Black Lives Matter Claims NYC Vaccine Mandate Is Being Weaponized

Chivona Newsome, the other co-founder of BLM NYC, targeted Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine mandate more specifically in her remarks. She implied that the edict has resulted in repeats of historical episodes when blacks were disenfranchised from society.

“Being a doctor does not protect you from anti-blackness. Having a vaccination card does not protect you from discrimination. The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits the actions of Carmine’s. It says it is illegal to discriminate against you on the basis of race,” she said.

“Seventy-two percent of black people in this city from ages 18 to 44 are unvaccinated. So 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 added.

She's an idiot, but you must love her now.

If she really thought that Black Lives Mattered, she'd be trying to get blacks vaccinated.

Obviously.

Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, of which Ms. Newsome is one of the leaders, is an independent organization. So my answer to your question is, that I don't support the position that vaccine mandates should be opposed because of the reasons that local group gives.

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the obvious solution to this is to make vaccinations more available to people of color, which is already happening around the country.

Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity

Black and Hispanic people remain less likely than their White counterparts to have received a vaccine, leaving them at increased risk, particularly as the variant spreads. However, the data show that these disparities are narrowing over time, particularly for Hispanic people.

These current patterns reflect growing shares of vaccinations going to Hispanic and Black people over time. Between March 1 and September 20, the share of vaccinations going to Hispanic people increased in all states reporting data for both periods and increased for Black people in most reporting states. In a few cases, these increases were large. For example, the share of vaccinations going to Black people increased from 26% to 45% in DC and from 25% to 38% in Mississippi. Similarly, the share of vaccinations going to Hispanic people increased by at least 10 percentage points in six states, including Florida (17% to 32%), Nevada (13% to 27%), California (19% to 31%), Texas (23% to 35%), New Jersey (6% to 18%), and New York (9% to 21%). The share of vaccinations going to Asian people also increased in most states reporting data for both periods, while it fell for White people in most reporting states. The share going to White people declined by 10 percentage points or more in 15 states (Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Alabama, Maine, Georgia, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, New York, Illinois, Colorado, and Indiana).

and I'll just add that vaccine refusal is no more common among Black people than the total population.  

ml1 said:

the obvious solution to this is to make vaccinations more available to people of color, which is already happening around the country.

Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity

Example - news item last month of a local BLM chapter promoting vaccinations.

Black Lives Matter Dayton hosting COVID-19 vaccination outreach (daytondailynews.com)

it's pretty cynical for right-wingers to suddenly be concerned about discrimination toward Black people when it comes to vaccination status.  And of course their solution is not to encourage efforts to vaccinate Black people, it's to strike down vaccine mandates as racist.  It's pretty crazy that the accusation of racism towards vaccine mandates comes from many of the same people who think racism is a thing of the past, or that "reverse racism" toward white people is a bigger problem than racism.