Lest anyone harbor doubt . . .

. . .  about who is behind this insanity and to what part of the political culture it pertains, I'll outsource to Paul Campos.

And yes, there is distrust about the vaccine among some African-Americans, but it's for historical reasons, not because their political leaders are lying to them. Also, they aren't refusing, and they'll accept a mandate. They're just reluctant.

And just to make it absolutely crystal clear, county by county, the percentage of people who are vaccinated is strongly correlated with the percentage who voted for Biden -- or conversely, the percentage unvaccinated is correlated with the vote for the former guy. The linked document has a lot of complicated graphics and statistics, but I'll share this which I think is easiest to grok:

 

For some reason he shows the r^2; the r is more conventional in this situation, it's .67, and that is a very strong correlation. Most of the variance in vaccination rates can be explained by political allegiance, and it's visually obvious.