U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley is slamming the unequal distribution of coronavirus vaccines in communities of color as “vaccine redlining.”
Pressley said she “saw this vaccine redlining” early on in communities already disproportionately hurt by the pandemic.
“Despite the fact that the Black community and other communities of color have been disproportionately hit by the pandemic, we weren’t seeing access to the vaccine keeping pace with that,” Pressley said. “I want everyone to have access to the vaccine to have that peace of mind to slow the spread of this disease and to save lives — especially while we’re in the midst of another surge and new variants are emerging.”
Pressley applied the term for the racially discriminatory lending process to disparities in vaccine distribution during a Children’s Services of Roxbury’s “ROXTalks” virtual session on Tuesday.
Black people account for less than 3% of those who have received at least one vaccine dose in Massachusetts, while Hispanics were at 3.3%, according to a weekly state Department of Public Health report from last Thursday.
“When it comes to the vaccine and access … this is a vaccine redlining,” Pressley said.
Pressley also called it “unacceptable” for the Bay State to be lagging behind so many others in distribution, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
“We should be leading. We are a health care mecca, we are a pace-setter for the nation,” Pressley said. “So for us to be lagging behind is unacceptable.”
As Massachusetts prioritizes distribution to mass vaccination sites and pharmacies, Pressley called for vaccination sites in every community health center and “certainly in every zip code.”
The Democratic congresswoman sent a letter to Republican Gov. Charlie Baker last week urging him to step up distribution in hot spots — often lower-income communities of color — by working with local health centers on access and awareness campaigns.
As she works to combat historic health and socioeconomic inequities laid bare by the pandemic, Pressley on Tuesday reiterated her calls for $2,000 recurring monthly payments from the federal government.
“The projections of those on the brink of eviction are very high in my district,” Pressley said. “I don’t call them stimulus checks at this point, they’re not stimulating the economy, these are survival checks.”
And she spoke of other initiatives aimed at closing the racial wealth gap, including canceling student loan debt and her “baby bonds” bill with U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. The legislation would give every American child a seed savings account with $1,000 that would grow until that child turns 18, at which point they could put the upwards of $30,000 in funds toward approved uses such as homeownership or higher education.
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Like U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, stated during the summer, let the cities burn. That is how much Ayanna race card player, cares about the inner cities and that is how much she cares about people of “color”!
Also, didn’t she BLOCK attempts by the governor to get guard troops in, after trump offered them??
Pressley’s and skin color dominated people like her’s idea of equality is to give vaccine preference by race rather than community. If your local community Walgreens, CVS or other pharmacies left your communities due to a BLM equal burnout and theft attempt to seize and equally redistribute the store mind controlling substances within, you might stop blaming white people for your own increasing hate and violence that diminished your own communities from offering sane people places to safely distribute vaccines that you probably will never pay for. Quit blaming white people for your problems, unless they are self-serving Democrat political people like yourself, who insist on your party-controlled government to control the distribution for expected skimmed financial kickbacks, rather than the more competent free market forces that always go to safe places that serve Self-governing people capable of paying for life saving products in earned self-governance. Your mistake, is the proposals to your people of ongoing reliance of corrupt politicians like yourself, rather than your own God-given ability to care for yourself, and acquire the ability and strength to go on to care and provide for others. Your problems are not in your stars but in yourselves your greed and your racial hate that spews from your mouths like rivers of community disablement.
I honestly believe, if cretins like her had their way, ONLY BLACKS< latinos and the like, would get vaccinated.. WHITES need not apply.
Pressley is an enemy of America.
Seed Savings account for every child, as though parents were incapable of doing this themselves, or grandparents.
Redlining defined is the age old communist tactic. Divide and Conquer, and that means everyone, every race, every gender, every job, every age, every business. . . . . until the fabric is eroded and this is how COMMUNISM consumes a country.
Freedom is not free. And the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, being on guard against all enemies foreign and domestic. We are to look to God first and work, not to government.
What? Welfare isn’t enough?
She’s a commie. SO OF COURSE she’s an enemy of america.. NAME ME ONE DEM who’s not!
this woman is racist trash.
“Despite the fact that the Black community and other communities of color have been disproportionately hit by the pandemic,”
Maybe because Blacks and colored feel that they do not have to follow White peoples rules,
They didn’t stay home, they had group parties and they didn’t wear masks or wash their hands.
This Negro Democrat Fool thinks that the COVID-19 is racist,
it disproportionately targets black communities.
She spoke of other initiatives aimed at closing the racial wealth gap.
OK, how about Stop buying and using dope, stop having ******* babies, go to school and learn and get a job.
These thing work great for other races.
Wow, a racist virus. How did that happen? If it hit them harder, it’s because they do not follow the rules, but want to blame everyone else for their problems. All they have to do is get up off their *** and go get the shot. I get so sick and tired of hearing them bellyache about everything. Every thing is racist to them.
BUT its white’s fault, that the BLACKS ignored our rules… ITs whites faults, THEY are druggies. ITS whites fault, that they are lazy. and so on and so on.
Meanwhile, Tyler Perry is vaccinated and on BET to encourage blacks who are concerned that this is another Tuskegee syphilis study to take the vaccination. Like with everything else, blacks have had more opportunities (affirmative action) than any other race for the last 40 years. It has been their decision to not take advantage of them.
The failure of Affirmative Action; Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX) and other members of the CBC!
Whenever the American public sees BLM members burning, looting and murdering innocent people in American cities, Ayanna Pressley’s lying racial BS should instantly come to mind!
“The legislation would give every American child a seed savings account with $1,000 that would grow until that child turns 18, at which point they could put the upwards of $30,000 in funds “. I want to know where I can invest my $1000 so I’ll have $30,00 in 18 years.
AND who the hell is gonna PAY FOR that 1,000 for every kid??
Maybe they’ll grow because of periodic infusion of tax dollars. They “forgot” to mention that little detail.
It always comes down to race for them. The vaccine does not come to you, YOU go to the vaccine. No one keeps that vaccine from blacks like you claim, you idiotic fool, and you know damn well that’s right. Anyone can look at you and see that you are a racist biatch. You like to cause trouble. It’s in your blood. What a hateful looking woman.
I had wondered for years how blacks could go into a doctors office and be treated and then just walk right out the door and every single white had to stop and pay for their treatment. Then I found out they have been getting free medical for decades. But hear they are crying the blues again. They just never get enough.
IMO, it will NEVER be enough.. NO MATTER HOW much we give them.
You didn’t think it would be long before some commie idiot claimed vaccines were racist, did you ?
Pressley’s redlining claim is headlining with bald faced race baiting. Any group “underrepresented” among the most essential and most elderly will have lower vaccination rates for now. Yet, her stats are limited to ethnicity.
Complain, complain, complain,……cry racism. Sit on your butt and wait for Uncle Sugar Daddy to bring home the bacon and then complain some more. I don’t believe any of this faux racism ****. If anything the government goes out of its way to make sure “people of color” are the first in line with their hands out waiting for the never ending government giveaway. It always ends up being the food line shortage for everyone once the government runs the show.
In many ways, they are often the ONLY ONES helped out… YET STILL they complain.
The sky is falling. Even the air is racist, diseases are racist everything is racist. The sky is falling
There’s days i would love it, if the sky, DID FALL, right on the heads of everyone of these race huskters…
Why is it that white people are blamed for slavery. It was the African people who ran down and caught their fellow countrymen and sold them for money. It is quite likely they needed the money just like those who after destroying businesses and looting were asked did you do it because of your families needs. History repeats itself and this is a fine example of bad choices that are allowed to be repeated over and over, only change is the excuse and where blame is being placed because of these choices.
Because ONLY whites can be blamed for anything.. You obviously didn’t get the memo.
This bald headed bimbo is more than welcome to take my spot, I have no intention of getting a vaccine.
Yet the “Squad” were pushed to the head of the line I bet, while seniors and those who truly need it are told to wait.
Ayanna Pressley is a servant of the international corporate elite and is doing what she is paid to do. What she is doing now is fomenting racial division and increasing demand for the COVID-19 vaccine among Blacks.
I suggest that the real purpose of this story and others like it is to increase demand for the COVID-19 vaccine. A simple enough trick — “Look at all of the celebrities who want the vaccine! I want it to — it must be good!”
The coronavirus “pandemic” is a fraud — an invisible, all-purpose enemy to which the government can attribute any dangers it wants to frighten and control us.
Everything was scripted well in advance of the actual roll-out — and that includes the vaccine. The mad rush to develop a vaccine to save us from this terrible “pandemic” was just part of the show.
As there is no legitimacy to the “pandemic”, there is no legitimacy to the vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccine is not intended to make anyone healthier (really, is any vaccine?). On the contrary, the COVID-19 vaccine is going to make people very sick over the short term and even more sick over the long term; it has already killed hundreds worldwide.