Burning Spear News "Between a rock and a hard place" The All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project answers your COVID-19 vaccine related questions May 7, 2021 Dr. Aisha Fields, AAPDEP International Director "Nurse prepares to vaccinate children" by World Bank Photo Collection is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
When my children were little, I hesitated to get them vaccinated. I was scared to pump their little bodies with anything that might potentially cause them harm. Although my mom is a medical doctor and I am a physicist by training, I have never completely embraced or trusted the colonial medical or scientific establishment. Why? For the same reason I don’t trust the colonial school system to correctly educate my children. And I reject the idea that African people should ever call the police to solve problems in our community.