Rep. Byron Donalds blasts Democrats institutionalizing vaccine 'segregation': 'That's their history'

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fl., fired back at Democrats seeking to mandate vaccines in order to engage in various sectors of commerce, comparing it to how Democrats instituted racial segregation following the Civil War on "Fox News Primetime."

On "Fox News Primetime", House Oversight Committee member Byron Donalds, who is Black, said that such policies inordinately affect African-Americans, pointing to the fact only 38% of the Black community has been vaccinated – while host Lawrence Jones noted the media wants to pin the blame on conservative Trump supporters, some of whom are also hesitant to get the jab. Donalds, of Naples, pointed out that until Biden entered the White House, he and other Democrats were forcefully and publicly skeptical of vaccines – pointing to Vice President Harris and embattled New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. "You had Joe Biden bring up Tuskegee multiple times on the campaign trail. That kind of rhetoric seeps into the body politic, so when you look at what is going on in the country, yes, the largest percentage of our population has vaccine hesitancy is the Black community," he said, referring to Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, in which the federal government experimented on Alabama sharecroppers who were instead told they were receiving free health care.