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CMV: African-Americans shouldn't get a 'pass' for vaccine hesitancy, and are just as guilty of anti-social behavior if they use that as an excuse as White Americans.

It is well-documented that 20th-century medical experiments in the US used African-Americans as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee syphilis study while telling them falsely that they were getting important medicine.  This has been broadly cited as a reason that African-Americans do not trust the government when they tell people they should get vaccinated, and specifically recently with regards to the Covid-19 vaccines.

However, this is not a rational excuse in this case, because everyone across the country (and the world) is getting the vaccine.  African-Americans are able to see through any mainstream news source or in their own community that White people and other non-Black people have been getting the vaccine for well over 6 months.  There are no clear systematic racial differences in adverse effects from the vaccine.  This includes Black doctors and nurses.  Further, it is possible for potential vaccine receivers to talk to many vaccine workers who are African-American, who presumably would not give a shot that they didn't trust to others.  Therefore, any remaining hesitance on their part is no more legitimate than a White American who lacks critical thinking skills.  Further, policy-makers should not be deferential towards African-Americans based on the flawed reasoning explained above.

This does not change the laudable goals of compassionate and empathetic outreach towards the unvaccinated.  I am in no way saying anyone should specifically criticize African-Americans any more than anyone else.  I just believe that race shouldn't play a role in how we are approaching the current situation of aiming to get more people vaccinated, because race isn't the problem to start with.
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I think, that for one to be a rational human, they must be skeptical and question most authority, especially the government. Black people have the most right to be skeptical about the government and the health care system, considering in days past, black people weren't free and couldn't vote, and were regularly discriminated against by doctors. This would lead any self-respecting black person to, rightfully so, be more skeptical about a system which has for centuries, for lack of a better word, screwed over their ancestors. 

Additionally, even in today's world, an argument can be made that black people (and minorities in general) are discriminated against by both the healthcare and the federal government.