It’s a rule in the national media that vaccine hesitancy is worthy of shame and scorn, right up until it collides with…the Black Lives Matter movement.

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But there’s…been no prescription for the Black Lives Matter crew in New York who are accusing the city of racial discrimination by mandating vaccines…

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.”…

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.

A lawyer representing Carmine’s has disputed the allegation about a racial slur…

The details are kind of beside the point, though. Black residents [are],,,vaccinated at a lower rate, with 45 percent of New York City’s adult black population having been fully vaccinated, versus 56 percent of white adults.

I don’t care if anyone, regardless of race, chooses not to receive a vaccine against COVID. That’s their dice to roll. But imagine a white Trump supporter saying his right to dine indoors…shall not be infringed…

But because we’re talking about Black Lives Matter…suddenly vaccine mandates aren’t so pressing an issue…

Remember that the next time a mousey CNN correspondent does one of those ungodly long segments on harm to “public health” caused by vaccine hesitancy in rural communities (Trump supporters). This isn’t about public health. It’s about politics.

What do you think about BLM’s response? Share your thoughts and prayers in the comments below!

(Excerpt from The Federalist. Article by Eddie Scarry. Photo Credit: Canva).