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When I got my 2nd shot, I talked to some of the (black) workers there and they also commiserated that their friends and family still distrusted any government v
by r00fus 5y ago
When I got my 2nd shot, I talked to some of the (black) workers there and they also commiserated that their friends and family still distrusted any government vaccination due to real atrocities like the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (perpetrated for 50 years!) and other situations.
- tzs 5y agoOne approach might be to suggest that they go to a white part of their town and get vaccinated at a pharmacy there where white people are getting vaccinated.
- TMWNN 5y agoAs bad as what happened at Tuskegee was, black patients were not injected with syphilis or anything like that. Patients with syphilis were not told that they had it and were monitored over the years to see what would happen.
- r00fus 5y agoIt's not a synonymous event, but trust relies on honesty, and they were being lied to. So the trust isn't there. Also it's a result of the slavery mindset that's endemic to this country since before it's founding.