Bame Poor Vaccine Take-Up

[Paigntonian]

Woman from Runnymead Trust said on TV this afternoon that black Britons were in many cases unable to visit vaccine centres because of their poverty and the remoteness of centres. She also said that black health workers had been the first hit with the virus due to racism. One despairs.

[Peter Pedant]

// It is for this reason I was unable to attend a Vaccination Centre (2 bus rides away//

did you actually go down there? I got the time wrong, and brought a friend ( wrong day) and it was all coped with ( actually I have to say with amazing efficiency orchestrated by a Jamaican - afro caribbean)

[Paigntonian]

Canary: If people can't be arsed to get vaccinated
it's their lookout- and the rest of us who might get infected of course. A bus might be full? Oh Dear.

[bobbinwales]

Agree Paigntonian but its been mentioned a few times. Theres a presenter on LBC who often raises it and callers ring in agreeing. Thatcher usually gets a mention to

[emmie]

according to the news the other evening the hardest hit have been the Jewish community, with a high rate of deaths.

[emmie]

not sure how old this is,

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/stamford-hill-highest-covid-infections-world-b920632.html

[emmie]

whats thatcher got to do with this bob..

[youngmafbog]

This lady really needs to keep the old gob shut. It's people like here that are driving racial tensions by blaming everything on race.

On the vaccines though its interesting to see that is is those of Caribbean decent who are the biggest group of not taking up the vaccine followed by the Black Africans. If it is because you are black - why the difference then lady?

From what I have seen black people have been reluctant to take it up due to misinformation and a suspicion of the Government (And with all the twaddle from Handcock and Witless who can blame them no one knows what is real truth and what is 'projection/guess' anymore.

[youngmafbog]

Oh, and one should not use the term BAME now. It should be Minority Ethnic.

[Fatalbertfixer]

Oh, and one should not use the term BAME now. It should be Minority Ethnic.

Is this the latest label,i get so confused on what to call certain members of the community now,it seems to change on a regular basis,i wish people would make their minds up.

[lankeela]

'Shyt happens to white people too' perfect for T-shirts I'd say - Paigntonian surely deserves Best Answer for this!

[bobbinwales]

//whats thatcher got to do with this bob.//

She still gets blamed for a lot of things. Blacks apparantly saw how she lied about shutting the mines in the 1980s and have never been able to trust what ministers say since so how can they trust Boris now about the vaccinne. Apparantly. Am not sure they trust Kier tho either as his white priviledge

[emmie]

i doubt many especially the younger members of the BAME community know who Thatcher was let alone keep on blaming her for everything, you could say its middle England, many lefties who still hate her even though she was out of office in 1990..

[emmie]

Keir at least came from fairly working class beginnings

Keir Rodney Starmer was born in Southwark, London, on 2 September 1962 and grew up in the small town of Oxted in Surrey. He was born second of the four children of Josephine (née Baker), a nurse, and Rodney Starmer, a toolmaker. His mother had Still's disease. His parents were Labour Party supporters, and named him after the party's first parliamentary leader, Keir Hardie.

[douglas9401]

On a point of pedantry, mead is supposed to be runny. X

[emmie]

as mentioned i think on another thread, Lenny Henry and other black actors, notables have put together a message about getting the vaccine, perhaps they should take note.

[drmorgans]

In the extract I heard Sir Lenny mentioned "legitimate concerns"

[mushroom25]

// perhaps they should take note. //

sadly some of "they" will just claim that anyone who spouts white privilege propaganda is probably white on the inside.

[emmie]

then thats their lookout.

[emmie]

this is the piece,

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/chiwetel-ejiofor-thandie-newton-sign-085814160.html

[margarettom]

Agree with APG @ 15.08.