• Obama, Shaquille O’Neal, and Charles Barkley urged Black people to get the coronavirus vaccine in a new video.
• Obama noted demand among the powerful: “That means everybody should know it’s a good thing to get.”
• Berkley said he was urging “every Black person” to “please go out and get vaccinated.”
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Former President Barack Obama spoke with former basketball players Shaquille O’Neal, and Charles Barkley in a bid to address vaccine hesitancy among Black people.

They spoke on an NBC special released on Sunday night, where Obama noted the demand for the vaccine among the richest and most powerful people in the US: “If the wealthy and powerful in our society are all lining up to get shots, that means everybody should know it’s a good thing to get.”

Barkley also said to “forget what happened back in the day,” a reference to the Tuskegee experiment, where scientists experimented on 400 Black men with syphilis between the 1930s and 1970s instead of curing them, without telling them. 

Barkley said he was urging “every Black person” to “please go out and get vaccinated.”

Watch the video here:

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll, conducted between March 15 and March 22, found that Black adults saw the largest increase in vaccine enthusiasm of any groups between December 2020 and March.

 

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