BIPOC Community leaders call their followers stupid

Vincent J. Curtis

26 Apr 21

RE: Vaccine took too long to get to racialized groups.  Hamilton Spectator of today’s date.

While I can’t think of anyone more deserving of criticism than Big Bureaucratic Medicine in Hamilton and Ontario generally, the attacks made on Public Health Hamilton are jaw-dropping.  The leaders of the Black, racialized, and Indigenous communities regard their groups as composed of stupid people.  People too stupid to arrange for a vaccination themselves.

A Polish immigrant is expected to arrange for his own vaccination, but members of the BIPOC, some of who have been in Canada for generations, need special help, as esteemed by their leadership.

The criticism levelled by these community “leaders” boils down to Public Health Hamilton not validating their leadership position by arranging through them a mass vaccination of members of their communities.

It makes sense to vaccinate in priority of need.  First, the elderly, and then those in “hotspots.”  But why should a segment of society get priority on the basis of skin colour rather than risk?  The game afoot here is to cement the current leadership in their positions by having vaccinations delivered on a special, prioritized basis, and because that isn’t happening, the leaders are squawking.  And making it look like members of their communities are dependent on them for vaccination, being incapable of arranging for it themselves, as members of the non-BIPOC community are expected to.

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