A NOTE TO READERS: This piece was originally published on NewsOne on August 11, 2026.
White supremacy in this country is so damn evil that it will summon old diseases defeated generations ago just to poison the inheritance of Black and Brown children who represent the end of white America’s presumed ownership of the future.
On Monday, the Trump regime signed an executive order that will begin dismantling federal protections and deliberately weaken the public-health infrastructure that protects children from getting infected and dying from preventable diseases. We must not dismiss the Trump regime’s new rollback on childhood vaccines as just another fresh eruption of stupidity, as “parental choice,” religious conscience, anti-science lunacy, or administrative incompetence.
What we are witnessing is racial sabotage against America’s now majority-nonwhite childhood population.
Among the vaccines the Trump regime is removing from the recommended universal list are hepatitis B, flu, and COVID-19. Why target these three?
Because the COVID vaccination is a right-wing symbol of government tyranny. Anti-vaccine activists have questioned why newborns need protection from Hepatitis B, a supposedly “adult” disease associated with sex and drug use, even though it can also pass from mother to infant during birth and spread through infected household members. And the annual flu shot was added to this list because it feeds the narrative that kids already receive too many vaccines.
Trump’s order also calls for breaking the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) into three separate shots and administering them to children during separate medical visits. Why? Because there’s a long-debunked anti-vaccine fantasy that giving kids multiple vaccines together overwhelms their immune system and causes autism. This lie has now been elevated into federal policy.
This administration is seeking to replace dependable public-health standards with confusion, individual negotiation, and parental suspicion. Not to mention, what should be just one lifesaving appointment will be turned into cost and time burdens for families.
Already cash-strapped and stressed-out families will face more logistical barriers, transportation costs, and missed work time to ensure their children get fully vaccinated. Affluent parents with insurance coverage, trusted pediatricians, reliable transportation, and flexible jobs will be able to navigate repeated appointments for their children.
This new schedule will leave children in marginalized communities unprotected longer between shots, and it makes it easier to abandon halfway through. And then, when vaccination rates decline and diseases spread, the administration will blame individual families for the outbreaks it helped create in the first place.
And Trump’s order comes at a moment when we’re witnessing the highest resurgence of measles caseloads in 35 years.
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