Blacks and Latinos desire COVID-19 vaccine
Tell a lie enough and truth becomes elusive.
Social observers continue a fictional tale about African Americans not trusting government and therefore evading COVID-19 vaccine opportunities.
Follow this thought down the Rabbit Hole and blame for continued pandemic suffering and death in the African American community falls on the shoulders of blacks.
Last week, when Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offered free vaccinations, a line of people stretched from an entrance near the Trenton Central High School gymnasium to Greenwood Ave. then wrapped toward Chambers St.
A time-stamp and visual inspection identified a majority of African Americans who obviously believe the science regarding vaccinations.
Aligning with the antithetical story suggests a Black death wish via believing that past covert U.S. experiments on blacks and others influences current actions.
While Blacks, Latinos and Indigenous people face disproportionate illness and death in this pandemic, Caucasians comprise the majority of COVID-19 deaths.
According to APM Research Lab, of the more than 520,000 cumulative U.S. deaths catalogued in a Color of Coronavirus update, these are the numbers of lives lost by group: Asian (17,747), Black (73,236), Indigenous (5,477), Latino (89,071), Pacific Islander (830) and White Americans (299,915).
Historically, U.S. interests offered greater value for Caucasian lives. So, if white Americans sustain significant death totals from COVID-19, one can dismiss nonsense about The Man injecting a virus into society to wipe out black folk.
Instead, government leaders should be implicated in the disparities of treatment and response offered
to challenged communities. If COVID-19 disproportionately impacts Black, Brown and economically challenged communities then significant resources should flow toward those residents.
This opinion hardly dismisses past U.S. actions regarding insidious, immoral and deplorable experiments on Blacks but this COVID-19 virus delivers pain and suffering indiscriminately.
Unfortunately, propaganda spread about Black and Latino reluctance as obfuscation and camouflage for U.S. failure to deliver care to communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
The coronavirus highlighted disparities in myriad social categories including education, technology, access to information, food insecurity, shelter, health, etc. Poverty ranks as an underlying cause for disproportionate life loss. As usual, winning against poverty represents a cure for myriad societal issues.
Winning a war against COVID-19 and poverty requires the same antidote — Education. Education. Education.
An honest assessment of all things coronavirus notes that internet and computers matter, especially with dispensation of reliable information. Reaching people without
internet or other social media platforms presents challenges.
City of Trenton officials distributed an important mailer placard that covered valuable topics. Plus, information appeared in both English and Spanish.
Outreach must continue as health officials fear another COVID-19 surge as residents regain less restricted privileges.
Testing remains crucial while vaccinations will eventually gain victory over this pandemic.
Interestingly, Trenton hosted a Easter event Saturday as the Easter Bunny climbed aboard a Trenton Fire Department truck. The Easter Bunny paraded through four wards before the procession ended in Cadwalader Park.
Trenton has and still needs an Easter Bunny approach to fighting this pandemic. Information distribution demands a ride through neighborhoods agenda to inform residents about testing and vaccine opportunities.
Meanwhile, please disengage this idea that Blacks and Latinos push back against vaccination.
It’s a lie.