Of course they WANT to say that the reason is because blacks are as “uneducated” as Republicans, but they know they can’t get away with saying that,
So, they try to write it off as a natural reaction to Tuskeegee Syphilis experiment.
But then, they can’t really admit that Republicans might be vaccine hesitant for the exact same reason.
So they try to virtue signal, by blaming (white people) for historical wrongs, while implying (black people) have a legitimate reason to be vaccine hesisant, and (white people) don’t.
What they really can’t bring themselves to admit, is that maybe black peoples vaccine hesitancy is the smart course of action,
and their own “trust the science” is not a smart course of action.
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/x0lkb4/republicans_and_blacks_most_hesitant_to_get_covid/
Black people and Republicans (not RINOs) have this in common:
It's stupid to trust the government.
edit for clarity