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I'm glad for the more respectful time of this video
but
it's hard to convey the depths of Black America's distrust without recognizing three things. https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1340529866106679298
but
it's hard to convey the depths of Black America's distrust without recognizing three things. https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1340529866106679298
1- The rains is not historical only it is *ongoing* - it is haooenung right now.
Some of us have loved ones who died from neglect when they had #Covid_19 in the hospital.
Some of us have loved ones who died from neglect when they had #Covid_19 in the hospital.
Some of our loved ones have become #COVIDLongHaulers and are being neglected and traumatized NOW.
Just last February a medical device
that was in my body three years
was savagely butchered out of my chest in an operation with just lidocaine.
I'm. STILL. Traumatized.
that was in my body three years
was savagely butchered out of my chest in an operation with just lidocaine.
I'm. STILL. Traumatized.
2- The way it's presented hat the government experimented in our people is ... inadequately explained in history books.
It sounds like we were sedated and woke up with shorter fingernails or something.
It sounds like we were sedated and woke up with shorter fingernails or something.
So when news venues talk about it - it echoes what other institutions like our educational ones say.
And they don't really illustrate
the horror or
the lack of pain killers or
how we were left to suffer
and die
by doctors we may have trusted.
And they don't really illustrate
the horror or
the lack of pain killers or
how we were left to suffer
and die
by doctors we may have trusted.
Enslaved women were operated and turn apart while they were awake and alive to invent gynecology.
That's where it comes from, mericiless mutilation of enslaved people.
That's where it comes from, mericiless mutilation of enslaved people.
I had two elective surgeries without sedation. After the major one I couldn't do my life for months.
I didn't choose to be depressed and traumatized. I felt like meat, like a living steak.
Which brings us to three.
I didn't choose to be depressed and traumatized. I felt like meat, like a living steak.
Which brings us to three.
3- I don't think Black people who are afraid have a disbelief in the science of it or think it might not work.
They don't trust the SYSTEM THAT OPPRESSES US.
They don't trust the SYSTEM THAT OPPRESSES US.
At least two Black women doctors have named what the solution to this is in better detail than I ever could.
I'll try to find the threads later and add them below.
I'll try to find the threads later and add them below.
Bottom line is find out our various concerns,
answer them,
be transparent
and pour money + resources into the people we trust.
answer them,
be transparent
and pour money + resources into the people we trust.
I can see the set up to set the blame for an American covid mutation on Black Americans and I already don't like it.
We're not anti-vaxxers, those of us with vetting levels of mistrust.
Strategies based on thinking we are will fail.
We're not anti-vaxxers, those of us with vetting levels of mistrust.
Strategies based on thinking we are will fail.
