thinking about how black people/black communities are still dying of covid-19 at higher rates than our white counterparts, and how white people are going to turn around and shame black communities for being hesitant about the vaccine when (if?) that becomes available —

completely ignoring how absolutely murderous western health care systems have been to black people globally, the dismal lack of black physicians, a record of discrimination and mistreatment that persists to this day, etc.

i’m picturing the gaslighting already, as if black people can just wake up one day and get over generations of trauma inflicted by the very medical system white people respect and trust.

Anyway some black families and communities will be hesitant to get the vaccine (if it ever reaches them because let’s be real about who will be the priority). It says nothing about them. How a person responds to trauma is non of your (white) business to critique.

When the conversation starts, and it already has started in many public health law circles, I hope we can direct the inevitable frustration at the health care system that needs to be uprooted, rather than at trauma survivors, their families, their communities, their descendants.