“Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade ran straight to racism on Monday morning as he expressed outrage over President Joe Biden’s broad COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
If I heard it correctly, Biden was talking to everybody who refuses or is reluctant to get vaccinated.
And consider this, Brian. Many African-Americans are resistant to getting vaccinated because of historical experience and a lot of current misinformation (including from people at FOX and Republican politicians and right-wing commentators, and the spread of that to social media). On the other hand, a lot of the Republican tribe flat-out refuses to get vaccinated in order to make a partisan political point and continue as a tribe member in good standing (and also because of the misinformation which they’ve been taught and encouraged to believe). Which is worse, dickhead? And what have you done to contribute to this situation? What are you doing now to fix it?
Let’s do some math here. White racist Republicans are 4 times more likely to be unvaccinated. White racist Republicans are also more likely to still believe black folks only count as 3/5 of a person…
That means white racist Republicans a 6.7 times more doochy than they were before Kilmeade opened his mouth this morning…
“Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade ran straight to racism“
For him he’s the Avery Brundage and it’s an Olympic track event.
There have been many micro targeted ads for the vaccine here in the NYC area featuring not only Black Americans but African and Caribbean immigrants.
My heavily immigrant zip code has a vaccinated rate of over 80%.
Kilmeade is just following the Trump playbook here, which is to know your audience, and give them what they want to hear in coded words. He’s basically saying Black people are stupid and need to be yelled at by a White man, while ignoring the historical context for why they’re vax-hesitant.