New York BLM Threatens Uprising Against Racist Vaccine Passports

"It's not gonna be white men in suits on Wall Street who are gonna get stopped. There's such hypocrisy in this thing."

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“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?”

Black Lives Matter activists have turned on New York City’s leadership over what they claim are racist COVID-19 vaccine requirements.

Mayor Bill De Blasio has aggressively pushed a “vaccine passport” system that bars entry to restaurants, gyms, and other public places without proof of COVID-19 inoculation. But with black residents lagging the overall population in vaccinations, the rules are disproportionately affecting a minority group usually in step with Democratic policies. The schism came to a head on Monday, when Black Lives Matter of Greater New York launched a protest outside a restaurant where enforcement of the policy sparked a melee.

Hawk Newsome is a black activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York — one of the many prominent Black Lives Matter organizations outside the hierarchy of the Black Lives Matter Global Network. He founded the group with his sister, Chivona Newsome. Both siblings spoke at the Monday protest, where Hawk accused the city of using vaccination requirements to run cover for its “racist ways” and “discrimination.”

Newsome spoke with the Washington Examiner about the difficulties vaccine-hesitant blacks are facing in the era of medical passports.

“We are not anti-vaxxers. Some of us are vaccinated,” Newsome said of his group. “It’s an individual’s choice. No one should be forced to put something in their body.”

The number of black residents in New York City who have not been vaccinated is drastically disproportionate to other racial groups. More than 70% of black people in New York City aged 18 to 44 have not gotten the injection — a statistic touted by Chivona at the Monday protest. There is a variety of reasons for the lag in shots, including religious beliefs and distrust of the government.

“It’s black people who have a natural distrust of the vaccine,” Newsome said. He cited the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study as an example of historic exploitation of black people by the U.S. medical community, despite the fact that vaccines are accessible to people of all racial groups.

BLMGNY is advocating for the complete abolition of vaccine requirements, not only in the city but also on a national level.

“I think, in a perfect world, [vaccine requirements] should be business by business. But it could be a slippery slope, so the mandate should be removed completely,” Newsome said, adding, “It’s not gonna be white men in suits on Wall Street who are gonna get stopped. There’s such hypocrisy in this thing.”

Newsome, a Baptist, said that what infuriates him the most is the lack of accommodations for an individual’s spiritual objections to the vaccine.

“How dare they remove religious exemptions? It’s the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen,” Newsome said. “Now the government has decided your God doesn’t matter? I love God.”

On Thursday, three black women were taped attacking the waitress at Carmine’s Italian Restaurant, after which they were arrested and charged with instigating a fight. The women allege that the waitress used racial slurs against them that provoked them, but no recording of such an altercation has been made public thus far. The owner of Carmine’s, Jeffrey Bank, denied that his hostess used racist language while asking for proof of vaccination.

“Three women brutally attacked our hostess without provocation, got arrested and charged for their misconduct, and then, over the last several days, had their lawyer falsely and grossly misrepresent their acts of wanton violence in a cynical attempt to try to excuse the inexcusable,” Bank said in a statement.

Regardless of Bank’s explanation, protesters, including both Newsome and his sister, took to the streets against the restaurant and the city’s vaccine mandates.

A Black Lives Matter protester was recorded shouting at a member of the community anti-crime group “Guardian Angels” during the protest. The unidentified man, who was wearing a black tank top and mask, repeatedly shouted “suck d***” in the face of Patrol Lead for the Guardian Angels Joshua Penner, 77WABC News reported.

BLMGNY is not new to controversial political demonstrations, and neither is Newsome.

Following the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, which sparked several nationwide demonstrations and led to former police officer Derek Chauvin being convicted on murder charges, Newsome said if the United States doesn’t “give [black people] what they want,” they would “burn this system down,” while refusing to clarify whether his statement was literal or figurative. At one point in the Fox News interview, Newsome also referred to Jesus Christ as “the most famous black radical revolutionary in history.”

Newsome insisted to the Washington Examiner that his group isn’t “running to the Right” in critiquing the Democratic leadership in New York.

“I’m a follower of Malcolm X,” Newsome said, calling the historic black activist the greatest civil rights leader in U.S. history. “Malcolm X didn’t trust the Republicans, but he also didn’t trust the Democrats.”

“Do we agree with the Right? No,” he continued, adding that he cannot align with the GOP because he believes their platform is built around the oppression of black people. However, Newsome believes that black communities are being intentionally left out of discussions about vaccine hesitancy by left-wing politicians.

“It fits a narrative to say crazy Trumpsters are the only ones who don’t want to take the vaccine,” Newsome said.

Source: The Washington Examiner

The Federalist:

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.”

8 Comments
  1. tunamelt says

    “What is going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, (FBI) from rounding up black the American people, and sending snatching them on a train to a concentration camp?

    “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?”
    Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

    Racism is another phony problem like all the rest of them. The American government hates the entire public equally even though they like to play them off one another.

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    1. yuri says

      moldy nazi tuna well known racist w fish brain

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      1. Raptar Driver says

        You have an obsession with fish and assholes.
        What are you cruising for?

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        1. yuri says

          rat driver apparently obsessed anal sex–I never mention “assholes”—rat driver typical self uglified illiterate amerikan peasant in trailer park

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  2. Mr Reynard says

    BLM ??? BLM ??? Are you upsetting your paymaster & organ grinder ??

    https://www.globalcomment.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/soros27.png

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  3. yuri says

    amerikan racism obvious—the idiots believe that their civil war regarded slavery when racism far worse in north than south as Bothe Tocqueville, MLK observed….ruling class funds black lies matter—this explains why self loathing racist liberals “bend their knees”

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  4. Andra Saltzberg says

    Finally…a slightly useful action from the BLM.

    Possibly this “thin edge of a wedge” in NYC could grow in a significant
    rout of the tools used by the gooberment.

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  5. Raptar Driver says

    My problem with BLM is that all lives matter, dumb asses!

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