# Louis Farrakhan Urges Africans and His Followers to Avoid Covid 19 Vaccine **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333 "2020-07-04T22:54:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/1 "2020-07-04T22:54:25Z")
> **[Farrakhan Accuses Fauci And Bill Gates Of Plotting To ‘Depopulate The Earth’...](https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/04/louis-farrakhan-fauci-bill-gates-vaccine-coronavirus/)** > > Louis Farrakhan accused Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates of trying to > [@](#): > > Speaking at Nation of Islam headquarters in Chicago, Farrakhan urged African leaders and his followers to avoid accepting vaccines and medications developed by Western scientists. > > “I say to my brothers and sisters in Africa, if they come up with a vaccine, be careful. Don’t let them vaccinate you with their history of treachery through vaccines, through medication,” Farrakhan said during the speech, which he gives annually on the Fourth of July. He is right that medicine has a horrible history concerning black people: > **[History of African-Americans and Medical Research Goes Beyond Henrietta Lacks](https://time.com/4746297/henrietta-lacks-movie-history-research-oprah/)** > > The story is as old as the nation is, an expert tells TIME But this advice at this time is just misguided. > [@](#): > > He then pushed a popular but unfounded conspiracy theory that Fauci and Gates are working on a vaccine for the purposes of population control. > > “They’re making money now, plotting to give seven billion, five-hundred million people a vaccination. > Dr. Fauci, Bill Gates and Melinda — you want to depopulate the Earth. What the hell gave you that right? Who are you to sit down with your billion to talk about who can live, and who should die?” Farrakhan said. > > “That’s why your world is coming to an end quickly, because you have sentenced billions to death, but God is now sentencing you to the death that you are sentencing to others,” he continued. Religion mixed with paranoia is infinitely more likely to depopulate the earth than a vaccine to a highly contagious deadly disease. > [@](#): > > Farrakhan’s remarks closely resemble those of anti-vaccination activists, as well as some conservatives who have leveled unfounded allegations about Fauci’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. > > One [popular conspiracy theory](https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/07/hydroxychloroquine-conspiracy-fauci-trump/) is that Fauci is prolonging the duration of the coronavirus pandemic by proposing a series of economic lockdowns and social distancing policies until a vaccine is developed. Great. We have the doucheliscious duo: Trump and Farrakhan, unraveling civilization from opposite ends of the spectrum. Now is the time for black and white people to come together to inoculate society against this dangerous crap. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/2 "2020-07-04T23:29:37Z")
Louis Farra-who? CMC ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/3 "2020-07-04T23:34:32Z")
Kahn!!! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/4 "2020-07-05T00:40:32Z")
I have a so-called president who thinks that wearing a mask is a hoax that only pussies fall for. I could give a shit about what Farrakhan says to his followers. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/5 "2020-07-05T01:19:34Z")
Is Trump telling his followers not to get vaccinated? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/6 "2020-07-05T01:23:42Z")
Hypothetical time! My favorite. Let me play: Is there a vaccine? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/7 "2020-07-05T01:25:51Z")
Does it matter? He is telling his followers that the vaccine will kill them and is being made to depopulate the world. Also, your president is mentioned in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/8 "2020-07-05T01:30:44Z")
It’s getting real weird now. Your last question (“Does it matter?”) was prety much: does it matter if a vaccine exists that Trump might hypothetically be telling people to avoid. Um, no? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/9 "2020-07-05T01:40:54Z")
My fault for being unclear. I meant does it matter if there is a vaccine NOW because Farrakhan is spreading the paranoid nonsense that people should not get the vaccine when its released because it’s a plot to kill them. This is the same sort of stupidity that Trump spreads by pretending that the virus is nothing for his followers to take seriously. These two are going to get lots of both of their followers killed. And lots of innocents who interact with them. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/10 "2020-07-05T01:43:53Z")
And one of them who gets a lot of people killed will walk away with lifetime Secret Service protection and a generous taxpayer funded pension with health benefits. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/11 "2020-07-05T01:46:53Z")
I hate Trump as much as you do. I asked a Mod if I could create a let’s assassinate Trump threas in The Pit. No go because it’s an Instaban offense. There isn’t much overlap in the he Trump/Farrakhan fanbase but both seem to want to kill lots of people ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/12 "2020-07-05T02:01:06Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > He is telling his followers Oh, well that makes all the difference! Pray tell, how many followers does Farrakhan have these days? CMC ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/13 "2020-07-05T02:02:59Z")
In recent weeks both Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube have come out defending him. The mainstream press doesn’t cover him but he is still popular in a segment of the black community. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/14 "2020-07-05T02:09:03Z")
Anyway, as long as my so called president would like to ignore the coronavirus, I could give a flying fuck what Farrakhan has to say about it. Bigger fish to fry, that kind of thing. Good luck, America! ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/15 "2020-07-05T03:15:05Z")
Entertaining. Louis Farrakhan has a small group of followers. He is… however damn good at promoting himself. The man hasn’t lasted this long not knowing how to promote his schtick. So i see the Daily Caller had a slow day… I guess Shaun King must have had taken a nap or something. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/16 "2020-07-05T06:42:37Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Anyway, as long as my so called president would like to ignore the coronavirus, I could give a flying fuck what Farrakhan has to say about it. Bigger fish to fry, that kind of thing. Good luck, America! I have no problem thinking both Trump and Farrakhan are idiots. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/17 "2020-07-05T12:16:17Z")
It’s the _dangerous_ part of “idiots” that’s problematic. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/18 "2020-07-05T14:56:52Z")
Anti-vaxxers are never not dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/19 "2020-07-06T21:17:26Z")
Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam have been promoting the antivax line for some time. They opposed SB 277, the California bill to crack down on “philosophic” vaccine exemptions, with Farrakhan saying: "Robert Kennedy Jr. was at my home a week or so ago, and Bobby Kennedy Jr. was representing a man (Dr. William Thompson) in the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) who “blew the whistle” that the CDC was responsible for developing a vaccine that is genetically prepared, or concocted, to affect Black males… “This is the Bible: “Kill the male, spare the female”—and it’s going on right now. They’ll take your baby; they’re sneaking in the ward where the baby is born, if the parents are not looking, to take the babies and inject them. What are they injecting them with?” > **[Cranks of a feather: The Nation of Islam and the Church of Scientology team...](https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2015/06/18/cranks-of-a-feather-the-nation-of-islam-teams-with-antivaccine-activists-to-oppose-sb-277/)** > > The saga of SB 277 just keeps getting stranger and stranger as its end game comes into view. SB 277 is, of course, a big deal. If it’s passed by the California Assembly and signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown, it would eliminate nonmedical... White antivaxers have previously targeted the black community (Somalis in Minnesota are another example, leading to measles resurgence). All we need are enough vaccine refusers to torpedo herd immunity to Covid-19 once we get a vaccine, and this mess will go on indefinitely. So no, we can’t ignore influential zealots and morons. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333/20 "2020-07-07T04:57:29Z")
Good luck, followers of Farrakhan and/or Trump. As usual, the question of who lives and who dies will be decided by Darwin. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/louis-farrakhan-urges-africans-and-his-followers-to-avoid-covid-19-vaccine/914333.md?page=2)