During much of the pandemic crisis last year, left-wing propaganda ignored factors such as population density, lifestyle and self-care to insist that the coronavirus itself was racist in its disproportionate targeting of lower-income minorities.
Those same factors may now be at play in the greater instances of vaccine hesitancy among African-American and Hispanic residents.
But with the uber-privileged, culturally-insular, blue-state bourgeoisie clamoring to punish jab-resisters, the true source of systemic racism in America—aka leftist groupthink—has suddenly reared its ugly head in ways unseen since the Ku Klux Klan dominated Democrat politics in the early 20th century.
“It’s challenging to demonstrate the effects of so-called ‘systemic racism’ in America because the hard numbers simply do not match the rhetoric,” wrote the NOQ Report‘s JD Rucker.
“But there is one issue in particular where the numbers do not lie,” he continued. “… Systemic racism does exist in vaccine mandates and the numbers are undeniable.”
Leftist media have now begun using dog-whistle language like “fair share” and “personal responsibility”—implying that those who refuse the vaccine are lazy, selfish and irresponsible—to deflect from minorities’ deeply rooted suspicions and skepticism.
Companies that spew toxins in the air have to pay for the cleanup; this isn’t any different. If staying unvaxxed is a “personal responsibility,” you shouldn’t get to shirk responsibility for the *direct* damage caused to others as a consequence.
— Anne Kim (@Anne_S_Kim) August 13, 2021
Rucker noted a study by the National Center for Biotechnology Information that suggested an outsize rate of vaccine hesitancy among blacks (28%) compared with 7.3% among whites.
That reluctance also has translated into a disparity in actual vaccination rates, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of Aug. 2, which was compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
For all states (plus the District of Columbia) in which demographic data was available, the average percentage of the black population to have received a COVID vaccination was 10%.
“As observed in prior weeks, [b]lack and Hispanic people have received smaller shares of vaccinations compared to their shares of cases and compared to their shares of the total population in most states,” reported KFF.
“The share of vaccinations received by [b]lack people also continues to be smaller than their share of deaths in most states, although in some states it is similar to the share of deaths,” said KFF.
The average for black COVID deaths as a proportion of the total statewide population was 16%, and the percent of cases was 11%.
Blacks averaged roughly 12% of the overall population, although they comprised a significantly larger share of the population in several Southern “red” states that have been scapegoated by the Biden administration during recent surges of the so-called delta variant.
The data showed that Hispanics also had an average vaccination rate of only 11%, although they accounted for an average 22% of total COVID-19 cases.
That number was notably higher in border states Arizona (41% of total cases), California (63%), New Mexico (59% of cases) and Texas (52% of cases), suggesting that the Biden administration’s open-borders policy was playing a significant role in driving the ongoing pandemic.
In Florida, where the Left has tried to blame Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s pro-freedom policies as the culprit for a spike in cases, Hispanics accounted for 42% of the cases and 25% of COVID deaths, as well as 27% of the population.
The nationwide average for Caucasians—again broken down proportionally by state—was a 68% vaccination rate, according to KFF’s data.
Shockingly, the states with the lowest percentage of vaccinated whites were some of the bluest in the nation: Hawaii (26%) and California (37%). By contrast, 57% of white Floridians were vaccinated.
KFF’s data also compared the ratios of states’ race-based vaccination rates to determine what demographic subset had the larger share of vaccinated individuals.
In only four states did the ratio of vaccinated blacks exceed that of whites: Alaska, Idaho, Mississippi and Oregon.
In only five states did the ratio of vaccinated Hispanics outnumber that of whites: Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia, as well as in the District of Columbia.
“[N]othing will oppress [b]lack Americans more than vaccine mandates. Not cops. Not the judicial system. Not banks nor schools nor any of the other Critical Race Theory boogeymen,” Rucker noted.
“Vaccine mandates are demonstrably racist, but the [w]hite radical progressives driving the Critical Race Theory agenda dare not speak out against it as it suits them to punish those who choose medical freedom over tyranny,” he added.
