Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, 65, responded to questions about rising cases of the virus in his state in a Fox News segment Thursday night
He said 'Democrats like to blame Republicans' for Covid spikes but went on to say the most responsible 'are African Americans who have not been vaccinated'
His comments sparked immediate outrage as people denounced the governor as racist
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner called Patrick's comments 'ridiculous' because they 'make no sense' and were 'contrary to the facts'
Meanwhile 1.9million black Texans are eligible yet unvaccinated compared to 5.6million white people in the state
The full vaccination rate among Black people in Texas is 29%, lower than the rates for Asian, Hispanic and white Texans.
Texas has reported race and ethnicity data for about 82% of people who are fully vaccinated.
BLUF:
Of 10.4 million white Texans 12 and older, 40.2% are vaccinated
Of 9.1 million Hispanic Texans 12 and older, 36.5% are vaccinated
Of 2.9 million Black Texans 12 and older, 29.1% are vaccinated
Of 1.s million Asian Texans 12 and older, 58.6% are vaccinated
A question not addressed is the age and health skew for the unvaccinated by race. I suspect that among white Texans the unvaccinated are mostly young and healthy, while among Black Texans they are mostly older and unhealthy or evenly distributed, which would increase their representation among the seriously ill and in need of hospitalization. Sadly, there are legitimate historical reasons for the African-American community to distrust novel medical treatments, and the way this thing has been reported drove increased distrust rather than calming fears.
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The least vax"d demographic group.... Drum roll please.... According to the CDC is.... African Americans.
So if I were to use the same MSM stories and articles published about WHITE Anti-Vax'ers being the blame for the recent outbreak and insert Black would that be Racist?
[BREITBART] Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) told Breitbart News Saturday that President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan.... must resign following his major foreign policy failure in Afghanistan as thousands of Americans remain stranded, blasting his "arrogant callousness" and false assertions that Americans are able to access the airport in Kabul as the condition in the area, under Taliban ...Arabic for students... rule, worsens.
"Either he’s lying to us or he doesn’t know what’s happening on the ground or he’s not listening to the generals or our intel community. There seems to be a miscommunication. All this was already transpiring early on," Tenney said, referring to Biden’s "festering mess" in Afghanistan and blasting the president for initially taking a vacation as the Taliban took over Kabul.
Tenney said she and her team and colleagues have been consumed "actually working to evacuate U.S. citizens out of Afghanistan," as well as green card holders and interpreters while the Biden crime family administration ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... "has done nothing." She also disputed Biden’s claim of there being "no circumstance" of Americans being unable to access the Kabul airport.
"President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem mschine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan...... got up and said there really isn’t any issue at the airport. We have even more news accounts today. The condition is getting even worse. People are getting killed and shot at and we have casualties om the ground," Tenney explained. "We have video of casualties on the ground in the perimeter of the Kabul airport showing that people can’t get to the airport to get out of Afghanistan. And just the entire situation is botched, and yet the president comes out and continues to show an arrogant callousness. He just cannot lead, and we cannot have him in this position anymore."
"He just cannot be at the helm any longer," she continued.
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Oh, give it up with this kabuki displays of your righteousness. It's all about power, baby. Long gone are the days -
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