NO! NO!NO!

THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR!

First, the shutdowns that cost so many small businesses their revenue and many have shuttered their doors, never to reopen.

THEN came the boost of extended unemployment that kept people from working. I'm not saying it was a bad thing and I'm NOT calling the citizenry who participated in those unemployment programs lazy. If the GOVERNMENT MANDATED shutdowns, they SHOULD HAVE PAID PEOPLE FOR BEING OUT OF WORK DUE TO THEIR MANDATED SHUTDOWNS.

Now, after benefits are expired, people are returning back to work...to all of a sudden for BIDEN to openly try to force a VACCINE MANDATE on Fortune 100 companies. SOMEHOW, this was a dog whistle to state and local government agencies to enact THEIR OWN MANDATES, and now people are being forced between a vaccine and their livelihoods.

AND NOW YOU ARE CONSIDERING TO MAKE CHILDREN AND TEACHERS CHOOSE BETWEEN A VACCINE AND THEIR JOBS/EDUCATION?

BTW---I am part of the demographic with the LARGEST unvaccinated population. 

I'm African American.

All this talk about how our lives matter, that we are victims, that we are oppressed.

Already, we are behind in employment.

Our numbers are high in welfare programs such as SNAP and TANF.

We are behind in graduation rates in high school AND in college, and the ones who graduate from both are STILL BEHIND others when it comes to STEM and reading comprehension.

AND NOW, you are at the cusp of making ANOTHER decision that is---in your mind---of the "Greater Good"?

You keep reminding us how slavery and Jim Crow is STILL in existence today. But concerning vaccine mandates, the Tuskegee Experiment---which was spearheaded and ran by the very same CDC who have YET to acknowledge that and are pushing for these mandates---we're supposed to FORGET about that? 

LLets keep pushing the narrative about microaggressions, slavery and Jim Crow pains...but DON'T QUESTION THE WHITE CDC ABOUT THESE MANDATES...

And yes---I'm calling the CDC "White" because that's the MAJORITY of whom is running that organization. AND ONCE AGAIN THEY'RE TELLING BLACK PEOPLE WHAT'S BEST FOR US AND WHAT TO DO.

ANYONE who is for such mandates---ESPECIALLY those who are NOT BLACK---I don't want to hear ANYTHING about "White Oppression" from you. You're no better than the Jim Crow lawmakers. According to you, our choices have been taken from us, yet here we are...black men and women are ABANDONING RHEIR JOBS AND LOSING THEIR PENSIONS/RETIREMENT due to being FORCED OUT of their jobs...OVER A MEDICAL DECISION.

I'll leave you with this.

OUR BLACK BODIES, OUR CHOICE.