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Mayor Of Boston Equates Requiring Proof Of Vaccination To Jim Crow, ‘Trump’

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Mayor Of Boston Equates Requiring Proof Of Vaccination To Jim Crow, ‘Trump’
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Acting Boston Mayor Kim Janey thinks requiring city residents to proof they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 is tantamount to racist, Jim Crow-style regulation requiring individuals to “show their papers.”

“We know that those types of things are difficult to enforce when it comes to vaccines,” Janey, a Democrat, said Tuesday when she was asked if she might mandate “vaccine passports.”

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