Charlamagne Tha God recently sat down with Dr. Oz, where the popular media personality weighed in on the conversation around African Americans' skepticism about taking the COVID-19 vaccine. He also gave his take on LeBron James, choosing not to disclose his plans for the vaccination.
“I think that we live in this era where we think public figures have to make everything public," said Charlamagne. "I think that LeBron understands the power of his voice meaning that if he does feel that way about the vaccine or he does have some distrust towards the vaccine, he's not going to just put it out there and say it because then that would probably make other people not want to make their own decision."
"They will be like, 'LeBron is not taking it so I'm not going to take it either,'" he added. "For him to say, 'It's going to be a private decision between me and my family,' I thought that was the responsible thing to do.”
Widening the scope of the conversation to black mistrust of the vaccine, Charlamagne noted, “Well, I can't speak for the whole black community because black people aren't monolithic," but "it definitely is a distrust when it comes to just the systemic racism in the medical system. People will point to the Tuskegee experiment; they'll point to the Henrietta Lacks case. For me, I've had people from the Biden administration, I've had people from Governor Cuomo's team reach out to me and asked me to be on these task forces to help lead people to get the vaccine, lead black people to get the vaccine."
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