Conclusion:

From a scientific and research standpoint, the COVID19 vaccine is probably the safest

vaccine you will or have ever received. From a historical standpoint, this is different than

the many times the medical community, specifically the American medical community,

has used Black bodies as pawns, curiosities, or guinea pigs in their pursuit of science

and health, for 3 main reasons. First, it wasn’t done in secret, which historically is how

they’ve operated since the abolishment of slavery. Second, it was given to the “elite”

first, again historically this normally happens the other way around (think small pox

vaccine). Third and lastly, the sample size and diversity alone is the best we have ever

had in the history of vaccine on sheer number size alone. That means that if/when you

receive the vaccine someone who is remarkably similar to you in make-up and back

ground has already had it and if we take into account of the small percentage of people

who have had severe side effects, the overwhelming chances are it is also safe for you.

Bottom line is, you are going to make a decision based on what you feel is right for

yourself and your family. This podcast series is to give you information to help you make

a well-informed decision.

40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study | Office for Science and Society -

McGill University

The Reason Black Americans Are Getting Vaccinated At A Much Slower Rate Is Not Because They’re

Reluctant | FiveThirtyEight

The Slave Who Helped Boston Battle Smallpox (undark.org)

How an Enslaved African Man in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox - HISTORY

West Africans and the history of smallpox inoculation: Q&A with Elise A. Mitchell | Royal Society

Study Links Disparities in Pain Management to Racial Bias | UVA Today (virginia.edu)

Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black and White Individuals in the US | Health

Disparities | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network

Smallpox - Our World in Data

In 1706, Onesimus was kidnapped from his homeland in North Africa, sold into slavery and gifted to Rev. Cotton Mather by his congregation... then he saved "America".

In the time where Americans enslaved millions of people to use for

labor and, well anything else they wanted, doctors frequently bought

Black people to be used as specimens. Authors and historians

James Breeden and Todd Sonitt wrote about this in more detail in

their journal article The Use of Blacks for Medical Experimentation,

1982. There were also places referred to as “Negro Hospitals” which

were closely linked to slave catchers and traders were the atrocities

that occurred there can barely be imagined. These “hospitals” often

offered “Cash for Negroes”. It was at one of these hospitals where

Dr. J Marion Sims would begin his career...