There Are No Girls on the Internet - April 09, 2021


DISINFORMED： What that SNL skit on Black folks and vaccines got wrong

Topics
Black Vaccine Hesitant and access
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Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

158.67

Word count

1,464

Sentence count

93

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Hate speech

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Transcript

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Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
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00:02:04.260 Did you watch Saturday Night Live last week?
00:02:06.980 If you did, you probably saw a skit
00:02:08.900 a lot of people are criticizing
00:02:10.260 for unfairly portraying Black folks
00:02:12.320 and our hesitancy around the COVID-19 vaccine.
00:02:15.080 In the skit, Daniel Kaluuya plays a Black doctor
00:02:18.140 trying to convince his Black cousins, aunties, and uncles
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00:02:26.780 You know I can't take that vaccine. I am a Christian.
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00:02:33.300 Okay, so here's the problem.
00:02:35.040 If we're going to talk about vaccine hesitancy in the Black community,
00:02:37.820 we also need to be putting it in context.
00:02:40.680 Our country has a deep and lasting legacy of medical racism,
00:02:43.740 where Black folks were ignored or actively mistreated,
00:02:46.840 and that still has far-reaching impacts today. 0.86
00:02:50.000 So it's not difficult to understand why some Black folks
00:02:52.280 might be hesitant about vaccines and the medical field in general,
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00:02:58.360 as a necessary context is incomplete.
00:03:01.320 And furthermore, making Black communities the face of vaccine hesitancy
00:03:05.060 is not actually borne out by the data.
00:03:07.920 Black folks are actually enthusiastic about the COVID-19 vaccine.
00:03:12.200 We're the fastest-growing demographic to say that we would like to get vaccinated.
00:03:15.840 The Kaiser Family Foundation found that Black adults saw the largest increase in vaccine enthusiasm,
00:03:20.860 with the portion of those who have gotten or say they will get the vaccine jumping to 55% from just 20% in December.
00:03:28.680 And what about white vaccine hesitancy?
00:03:31.240 According to Pew, white evangelicals are the least likely demographic to say they'll get vaccinated.
00:03:37.680 Of the around 41 million white evangelical adults in the United States,
00:03:41.480 Around 45% of them say they will not get vaccinated against COVID-19. 0.90
00:03:46.140 And yet, we still make Black folks the face of vaccine hesitancy.
00:03:50.240 Despite COVID disproportionately impacting the Black community and our enthusiasm for getting vaccinated, Black folks are still getting vaccinated less.
00:03:58.840 Black folks and Latinos are only about 60% as likely to have had the COVID-19 vaccine as their white counterparts, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
00:04:08.400 That's because right now, the real issue isn't hesitancy, it's equal access.
00:04:13.780 An NPR study that you can find a link to in the show description
00:04:16.720 found deep disparities in Black communities when it comes to accessing the COVID-19 vaccine.
00:04:22.760 They found that in some states with lots of Black folks,
00:04:25.020 states like Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama,
00:04:27.540 Black and brown neighborhoods had fewer vaccine distribution sites,
00:04:30.720 while few wider neighborhoods were without one.
00:04:34.120 Not to mention the fact that many vaccine registration portals
00:04:36.900 require internet access, and Pew found that Black households are 30% less likely to own a computer. 0.74
00:04:43.120 We've also seen white, wealthier folks jumping the vaccine line and misusing programs meant to
00:04:48.440 vaccinate Black, brown, and low-income communities. I know here in D.C. where I live, people looking
00:04:53.900 for vaccines had to get up early and keep refreshing the city's website in the hopes of getting an open
00:04:58.380 slot. And what if you had to work? Or deal with childcare? Not everybody has the ability to spend
00:05:04.700 a few hours refreshing a website in the hopes of getting an open vaccine slot.
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00:05:13.700 low vaccination rates is actually really harmful because it minimizes the importance of equal
00:05:18.520 access to health care and instead shifts the onus away from our medical institutions and
00:05:23.480 puts it on the choices of individual Black people instead. 0.96
00:05:26.820 I'm happy to say that I got my first dose of the Moderna vaccine.
00:05:31.160 I was even happier to learn that it was developed by a team led by 34-year-old Dr. Kizmika Corbett,
00:05:36.240 a Black woman scientist who leads a team at the National Institute of Health.
00:05:41.020 Here's what she told CNN's Abby Phillip.
00:05:43.680 There is a subset of people who just hasn't been listened to around their health issues
00:05:48.180 and around, you know, technology, really.
00:05:52.120 And at this point, I just felt like it was time for me to sit down
00:05:56.100 and empathize with an entire group of people who had been ignored.
00:05:59.100 And I know it may not make for the most hilarious SNL skit, but when we talk about Black folks and vaccines, I hope we can also make room to amplify the fact that this amazing Black woman is a big part of the reason why we have one of their vaccines in the first place.
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