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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Navajo teenager who went viral reporting on coronavirus: 'I just want us to be seen'
Larry Jackson, 16, would not describe himself as political. Last night he was celebrating the end of his junior year exams by eating chicken wings, playing Fortnite and FaceTiming his friends.
But last month, Jackson unwittingly went viral after he released a TikTok video raising the alarm on the huge number of Covid-19 cases hitting the Navajo Nation, a territory occupying parts of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.
He compares the situation in the Navajo Nation now first in the US in terms of cases per 100,000, with 4,253 cases and 146 known deaths, to West Virginia. West Virginia spans 24,038 square miles making it smaller than the Navajo Nation, at 27,413 square miles. Despite this, Jackson explains: West Virginia is living on 163 grocery stores, were living on 13. They are living on 63 hospitals, we are living on six.
Today we live on broken treaties and broken promises from the US government This is America, he finishes.
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The Navajo teenager who went viral reporting on coronavirus: 'I just want us to be seen' (Original Post)
LiberalArkie
May 2020
OP
Hope this young man keeps it up, see him growing into a real adult before others his age
KS Toronado
May 2020
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. This young man is the future
leader of the Navajo Nation. Watch and see.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)2. He certainly should be !!
MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)3. Stay Safe and Healthy jojojaxn
We NEED people like you!
KS Toronado
(17,191 posts)4. Hope this young man keeps it up, see him growing into a real adult before others his age
Alex4Martinez
(2,193 posts)5. K&R (nt)