Or a Black person. Because, you know, history.

Hernrietta Leakes. Tuskegee. The mutilation of enslaved Black women to create the field of gynecology.

Ongoing neglect of us.

Textbooks that still say we don't feels as much pain as white people.
Our babies that die of racism. https://twitter.com/richardosman/status/1334057826675806213
Also some cancer patients and chronically ill immunocompromised people like me can't take certain types of vaccines.
The initial polio vaccine disater before the second one. 1954 wasn't that long ago. Both my parents were alive for that.
For the record I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm extremely pro-vaccination.

I'm also pro "not rushing a product to market without extensive human trials."

And I recognize how much Black people have been neglected & brutalized by the American medical system.
We have reason to be hesitant.
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