On Sunday, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) — a member of the so-called “Squad” of left-wing House Democrats along with Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — stated that she wanted to prioritize prisoners who have been incarcerated in the rollout of the coronavirus vaccines that are beginning to be doled out. Pressley also stated that President Trump and the GOP-led Senate had exhibited “willful criminality” and that the medical community had exacted “ostensibly medical apartheid on black Americans, on indigenous people … on our most marginalized communities.”
CNN host Abby Phillip prompted Pressley’s remarks by stating, “According to the CDC, black Americans are almost three times as likely to die from the coronavirus as white people. And yet, this poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that only 20 percent of blacks want to get the vaccine as soon as possible versus 40 percent of whites. You were vaccinated yesterday. You tweeted about it. What do you say to the majority of black people that say they’re not rushing to do what you did just yesterday?”
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