About 100 kids rolled up their sleeves for the Pfizer vaccine Thursday, including 15-year-old Sydney Lewis.
“It was a long and much-anticipated wait,” Tanisha Lewis, Sydney’s mother, said. “It’s all about returning to normal.”
Both of Sydney’s parents are vaccinated, and now it’s her chance to get the same dose and the same two-shot regimen as them.
The vaccinated population in D.C. may be overestimated in this map because some non-residents who work in D.C. are included in the totals.
“We’ve been waiting quite a while, and she’s been very anxious to get it as well,” Roger Lewis, Sydney’s dad, said.
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And Friday they will be recognized for their efforts by ESPN and Special Olympics.
“This celebration means to the school is like a gift, a gift makes me proud and happy,” Tommy Conner, a student, said.
“It feels amazing because Postlethwait made it a priority to emphasize inclusion and to show care, kindness, and respect,” Sydney Lewis, a student, said.
“We’ve been successful in including everyone in our school, no matter what their differences may be,” Alanah Demko, a student, said.
I’m told in 2018, Postlethwait started the process of becoming a Special Olympics Unified Champion School, which brings students with and without disabilities together.
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By Dr Selwyn R. Cudjoe
March 01, 2021 No society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences, and the consequences are chaos for everybody in the society. James Baldwin,
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There are two troubling aspects of slavery and colonialism that remain within our consciousness even though we claim that slavery and colonialism are conditions of the past. The first is the self-hate that these socio-economic formations have created in Black people and a resulting tendency to do everything to prevent fellow Blacks from moving forward. Frantz Fanon discussed this condition in
Black Skin, White Masks.
The second aspect of these phenomena was the tendency of incoming groups (immigrants) who, when they met Black people in these Americas, assumed all the biases of the dominant group, and treated Black people with as much scorn and contempt as the oppressor group.