BROOKLYN, New York—A group of almost 100 people, mostly African Americans, gathered at The Brooklyn Bank in New York to express their opposition to vaccine mandates on Oct. 2.
New York City has implemented vaccine mandates on healthcare workers, school staff, and all those who work or patronize restaurants, bars, nightclubs, catering halls, event spaces, gyms, fitness centers, pools, theaters, museums, aquariums, and zoos.
The meeting was vibrant, vociferous, and often involved talk of rallying spiritual power.
“Black Americans all across America are waking up! They realize modern-day slavery is upon them again,” Jenkins told The Epoch Times.
“In black communities, they are starting to have serious dialogue and are strategizing on how to fight back! They are saying no to the vaccine/slave passport and no to segregation. We have a long, dark history with bigotry and exploitation, and we are asking the world to stand with us! It’s time to fight back!”
Kwame Brown spoke during the gathering via videoconference, advocating for freedom of choice. He is the first high school basketball player in NBA history to be drafted in the first overall pick.
“Our community needs to remember that they told women it was ’their body, their choice,' when it came to abortion, and really realize what that means—that they don’t care about your body or your kids,” Brown told The Epoch Times.
“Stay strong and fight for your freedom of choice in a peaceful way,” he added.
King, who hosted the meeting, told The Epoch Times: “Medical apartheid is population control. Population control comes in different forms: vaccines, abortions, mass incarceration, and perverted sexual agendas targeting children. Population control is racist, from the womb to the tomb. It’s time y'all!”
Attorney Tricia Lindsay, another featured speaker at the meeting, told attendees, “[They] shut the churches down to force people ... to get indoctrinated into a whole new religion.”
Amid constant thunderous cheers and applause, she maintained that the media has pushed fear and hysteria over the virus and encouraged people to “put more faith in a vaccine” than in their God.
She said that the “elites” are pitching people against each other with “dog whistle” terms, which has seen family members stop interacting over disagreements about the vaccine. She called it a “demonic situation.”
“Think! Think! Don’t just roll over and take everything that they tell us,” Lindsay said.
“You tell me that you’re going to take away my education, my livelihood, food, travel, all the basic fundamental rights, if I don’t subject myself to your tyranny, to your poison? There is no consent; we have to hold the line.
“Don’t allow them to enslave us, don’t allow them to dictate what we do. Teach your children to stand up and get off Facebook,” she added.
She differentiated between God and religion, and told the people present that they should leave the churches that have been hijacked by untruthful people.
Lindsay was an educator for 24 years in both administrative and teaching positions.
“Trust me, the school system went to hell a long time ago,” she asserted.
“Vaccinated or unvaccinated, together we stand, united!”
