President Joe Biden&#8217;s job approval has been steadily sinking over the last few weeks &#8212; he is at just 43% approval in the <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/354872/biden-approval-rating-hits-new-low-harris.aspx">latest Gallup poll</a> out Wednesday &#8212; but his decision to empower the Occupational Health and Safety Administration to police COVID-19 vaccinations in thousands of workplaces is tanking him with black voters, specifically, <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2021/09/22/biden-black-voters-vaccine-mandate-polling/">per Morning Consult</a>.
The news seems to coincide with a protest out of New York City alleging that Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s own vaccine mandate, which requires individuals seeking to dine indoors at restaurants have at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, is providing cover for racism and may, itself, be racist.
Morning Consult found that Biden&#8217;s approval dropped a striking 12 points among black voters since September 8th, the day before the White House announced a comprehensive new COVID-19 mitigation plan that included a new OSHA rule, which, when drafted, will demand workplaces with 100 or more employees either require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID or submit to rigorous testing for the virus.
&#8220;President Joe Biden’s sweeping federal rules to mandate vaccines hasn’t hurt him with the overall electorate, but it appears to have spurred a weakening of his standing with one of the most reliable pieces of the Democratic Party’s coalition: Black voters,&#8221; Morning Consult noted.
&#8220;Since Morning Consult Political Intelligence surveys conducted immediately before Biden’s Sept. 9 mandate announcement, the president’s net approval rating – the share who approve of his job performance minus the share who disapprove – has fallen 12 percentage points among Black voters, driven by a 17-point drop among unvaccinated Black voters,&#8221; the outlet said.
His approval rating among black voters is still high, but Democrats are looking at razor-thin margins in 2022, and 10 points from a key demographic could be the difference between holding both Houses of Congress or watching the federal legislature flip into Republican hands.
&#8220;The September erosion accounted for more than two-fifths of the decline in perceptions of Biden’s job performance to date among Black voters, providing a stark warning sign for Democrats ahead of next year’s midterms,&#8221; Morning Consult pointed out. &#8220;While Black voters, who helped push Biden over the top against President Donald Trump in key states last year, are unlikely to abandon the Democratic Party en masse to back Republicans on the ballot next year, low turnout from the group could have dire consequences for Democrats in Congress, who already face an early enthusiasm gap.&#8221;
The vaccine mandate appears to be to blame:
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61% of Black voters approve of Biden’s handling of coronavirus, down 9 points since he announced the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. <a href="https://t.co/WFvY34dco8">https://t.co/WFvY34dco8</a> <a href="https://t.co/lqkqvZsQzH">pic.twitter.com/lqkqvZsQzH</a>
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The poll speaks to perhaps larger concerns over how minorities may fare if vaccine mandates become the norm. In New York City, a recent incident at Carmine&#8217;s Italian Restaurant on the Upper West Side ended up as a racial dispute with a Black Lives Matter group blasting the New York City dining mandate as racist and a cover for racism.
“Being a doctor does not protect you from anti-blackness. Having a vaccination card does not protect you from discrimination. The 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits the actions of Carmine’s. It says it is illegal to discriminate against you on the basis of race,” Chivona Newsome, a co-founder of BLM Greater New York said.
“Seventy-two percent of black people in this city from ages 18 to 44 are <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-unforeseen-consequences-of-new-york-citys-vaccine-passports/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ylk="slk:unvaccinated" data-rapid_p="12" data-v9y="1">unvaccinated</a>. So what is going to stop the Gestapo, I mean the NYPD, from rounding up black people, from snatching them off the train, off the bus?” she added. “We’re putting this city on notice, that your mandate will not be another racist social-distance practice. Black people are not going to stand by, or you will see another uprising. And that is not a threat; that is a promise.&#8221;
&#8220;The vaccination passport is not a free passport to racism,&#8221; Newsome said.
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Biden Job Approval Tanks Among Black Voters Over Vaccine Mandate

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A hospital in Alabama has rescinded its mandate requiring employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Just one month after mandating all employees get the jab, the University of Alabama at Birmingham reversed the order and will await details from the federal government on its mandate.
&#8220;President of the Alabama Hospital Association Dr. Don Williamson said most hospitals in the state aren’t requiring the shot right now anyway, UAB was one of few,&#8221; WRBC-TV <a href="https://www.wbrc.com/2021/09/18/uab-no-longer-mandating-employees-be-vaccinated/">reported</a>. &#8220;He said hospital staff have high vaccination numbers, anywhere from 50% to 80% in different locations, which Williamson said many achieved through incentive programs.&#8221;
The hospital continues to offer $400 to employees who get the vaccine. “Hospitals have successfully navigated the waters of getting people vaccinated and for the most part, they have been able to do it without mandates,&#8221; Williamson said.
Other hospitals have been mandating vaccines for all employees &#8212; and some have even fired employees who refuse.
Houston Methodist Hospital, which manages eight hospitals, gave employees just weeks to get the vaccine or face suspension or termination. On June 7, the deadline, the system suspended 178 workers without pay.
Before that, though, 117 full- and part-time workers filed a lawsuit.
But U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes of Houston <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-throws-out-houston-hospital-workers-vaccine-mandate-lawsuit">ruled</a> that the argument from lead plaintiff Jennifer Bridges that the vaccines are “experimental and dangerous” is false. The judge also said Bridges’ contention that the vaccine requirement is tantamount to the Nazis’ medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners during the Holocaust to be “reprehensible.”
And Hughes also said that a business can require workers to get a vaccine and is not coercion, as Bridges claimed in the lawsuit.
“Bridges can freely choose to accept or refuse a COVID-19 vaccine; however, if she refuses, she will simply need to work somewhere else,” Hughes wrote.
“If a worker refuses an assignment, changed office, earlier start time, or other directive, he may be properly fired. Every employment includes limits on the worker’s behavior in exchange for remuneration. That is all part of the bargain,” the judge said.
The plaintiffs’ lawyer, Jared Woodfill, disagreed and vowed to file an appeal. “All of my clients continue to be committed to fighting this unjust policy,” Woodfill said in a statement.
“What is shocking is that many of my clients were on the front line treating COVID-positive patients at Texas Methodist Hospital during the height of the pandemic. As a result, many of them contracted COVID-19. As a thank you for their service and sacrifice, Methodist Hospital awards them a pink slip and sentences them to bankruptcy,” Woodfill said.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not fully approved the vaccines, instead issuing only emergency use authorization. They alleged the hospital is “illegally requiring its employees to be injected with an experimental vaccine as a condition of employment.” Since the lawsuit was filed, however, the FDA <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fda-approves-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine">has approved</a> the Pfizer vaccine.
The complaint also cited the Nuremberg Code, which “bans forced medical experimentations, again in effect arguing that the vaccine is experimental and potentially unsafe,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-hospital-lawsuit-forced-vaccination-policy">reported</a>.
Before the judge’s ruling, Woodfill said the hospital was just trying to make money. “To promote its business and increase profits at the expense of other health care providers and their employees’ health, defendants advertise to the public that they ‘require all employees and employed physicians to get a COVID-19 vaccine,’” Woodfill <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/117-employees-sue-houston-methodist-hospital-requiring-covid/story?id=77977011" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told</a> ABC News.
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