S E416: Dr. Imani Perry: "How Do We Trust The Vaccine?"

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Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Dr. Imani Perry, American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature and African-American culture and currently the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, talks with Karen and Lurie Daniel Favors about the vaccine rollout and the entry point to educating about our history.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub.
0:10.0	And joining us for the first time. I'm so excited because I've been wanting to have this woman on
0:13.5	because she's a powerhouse. She is a professor of course. Hughes Rogers Professor of African American
0:18.8	studies at Princeton University. Let me welcome Dr. I Mani Perry. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me.
0:27.0	Thanks for coming through. So I'm glad you're here. I posed the question before you got here because there's so many
0:33.8	people resistant to taking this vaccine which now Pfizer and Moderna are rolling
0:40.1	out Europe became a great Britain became the first Western country to our entity to take, you know, have the vaccine spread. I think the first person to take it was an elderly woman. I think she was 90 something years old, first person
0:53.5	injected with it. We had last week a doctor, Dr. Chris T. Parnell, who was
0:58.7	actually a number during a trial, and she had laid a lot of my anxiety and fears around it.
1:03.2	I'm open to it now when before I was like Tuskegee and radiation,
1:07.2	they've been experimenting on us and not treating us.
1:09.6	Why do we think, blah blah blah?
1:11.0	And she was like, nope, this, this, this, and this. And she was like, this, this, and this.
1:12.6	And I was like, all right, that makes sense.
1:14.0	Okay, I'm good.
1:16.4	So I was saying to myself today,
1:17.6	what if the whole resistance to this
1:22.2	is baked into the rollout of this and then I was also thinking about the
1:26.8	notion that countries sat around and I think about this to this day you know in a
1:32.3	room you know Great Britain was like,
1:34.4	all right, we're gonna take Nigeria and Ghana.
1:36.6	France was like, I want the Ivory Coast in Benin.
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