'This is misappropriation of a movement that really is not over and proves to be challenging to overcome,' Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) said.
In an effort to prevent future measles outbreaks, California passed a law Monday restricting many of the medical exemptions parents in the state currently use to avoid vaccinating their children when enrolling them in public schools. The law was met with immediate protests from anti-vaccination supporters, some of whom are accused of appropriating themes from the black civil rights movement to further their cause, with one lawmaker calling their actions"borderline racist.
"This is misappropriation of a movement that really is not over and proves to be challenging to overcome," Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove told POLITICO."The whole conversation around vaccinations is actually one about privilege and opportunity. It's a personal choice. It's a luxury to be able to have a conversation about medical exemptions and about whether or not you think your child should be vaccinated.
The anti-vaccination protesters stormed Sacramento, the state capital, over the course of the past week as the bill became law. The new law gives public health officials more leeway to revoke medical exemptions for children who are not vaccinated in schools where fewer than 95 percent of the children are vaccinated, the threshold public health experts say is needed to achieve"herd immunity" in schools. Anything below a 95 percent vaccination rate is considered a public health risk.
The mostly white anti-vaccination protesters who flooded the halls of the state capital sang the black civil rights anthem"We Shall Overcame," chanted"no segregation, no discrimination, yes on education for all" and many wore shirts that read"Freedom Keepers." During the debate over the then bill, one protester threw what many claimed to be a menstrual cup of blood on legislators from the gallery.
"I'm doing this for the babies that died, so their voices can be heard," Rebecca Dalelio said as she was arrested for throwing the blood."Their blood is on your hands, you who make the laws."I just want to point out, if constituents from my district waged months-long social harassment campaigns against a member, threatened them w/death, harassed & threatened their family... then came to the Capitol and disrupted session for hours... they would definitely be arrested.
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