It's a rule in the national media that vaccine hesitancy is worthy of shame and scorn, right up until it collides with their most precious cause, the Black Lives Matter movement.
Hawk Newsome, the co-founder and chairman of Black Lives Matter Greater New York, was quoted Saturday in the New York Times saying that restaurants "Are using vaccine mandates to enforce their racist beliefs and excluding black patrons."
At a protest Monday in front of New York restaurant Carmine's, Chivona Newsome, also a co-founder of the group, said of the vaccine mandates, "What is going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, from rounding up black people, from snatching them off the train, off the bus?".
She further issued the threat that BLM was "Putting this city on notice that your mandate will not be another racist social distance practice" and that "Black people are not going to stand by, or you will see another uprising." She said vaccine verification "Is not a free passport to racism."
The catalyst for those remarks was an incident at Carmine's last week wherein three black women from Texas were charged for assaulting a hostess at the restaurant, allegedly over a vaccine verification dispute and, as a lawyer for the women subsequently claimed, because the hostess, who is of Asian descent, used a racial slur.
I don't care if anyone, regardless of race, chooses not to receive a vaccine against COVID. That's their dice to roll.
Because we're talking about Black Lives Matter, which can do no wrong in the media's eyes, suddenly vaccine mandates aren't so pressing an issue.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
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