Posted on 02/24/2010 11:33:41 AM PST by 198ml
On February 14, CNN aired both segments of its special series “Black in America," and used the opportunity to perpetuate a harmful racial myth.
In the first installment, reporter Soledad O’Brien took viewers to Project Brotherhood, a clinic in the south side of Chicago offering free medical care and advice to its black residents.
“We are seeing an increasing amount of men with resources, who are just reluctant to access services elsewhere,” Dr. Pete Thomas, a clinic doctor told O’Brien.
“Why the reluctance? Dr. Thomas says black men are afraid of being exploited – a fear caused by history and the revelation that for forty years unsuspecting poor black men were used as medical guinea pigs in the infamous Tuskegee experiments,” O’Brien said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Did you ever expect CNN to tell the truth?
Well, white people, Asian people, and Hispanice people are being exploited through having to support so many on welfare for generations.
Although there might be an argument to be made that we should not harshly judge this study based on modern standards, I think this Newsbusters piece comes too close to implying that, even by modern standards, there was nothing unethical about the study.
WaPo Blog Compares Black Conservatives to Genocidal Dictators
THE STATE OF GEORGIA Legislation to protect unborns from abortion for gender preference or race of unborn.
H.B. 1155 “Prenatal Non-discrimination Act” (PreNDA)
This piece of bipartisan legislation was introduced in the Georgia House by our good friend Representative Barry Loudermilk and cosigned by 5 other Representatives. Four out the first six names are African Americans and two out of the six are Democrats. The bill would make it a crime for anyone attempting to coerce or solicit a female to abort based on the race or sex of her unborn child. It also would be a crime to perform an abortion, while knowing it was motivated by the baby’s race or sex. Likewise, it would be a crime to perform abortions intended to control the population of a specific race or sex.
Good point, but...
“a major medical and scientific issue at the time was the need for a baseline against which to evaluate the effectiveness of any therapy (all of which were known to be hazardous and therapeutically weak). They suggest that at that time ‘knowledge of the chronic course of syphilis was inadequate to reliably distinguish therapeutic effect after the initial phases of the disease from the variability of its chronic course.’ In other words, the disease was self-limiting or self-correcting in most cases - yet no one knew for which smaller sub-population of patients that was not true or how they could be identified. In addition, it was hard to tell whether arsenical poisoning or any other therapy administered during the early stages of infection, really had a sufficiently beneficial long-term effect.”
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGVkN2QyODUwNzJlNTU0MGI0ZGY2YTY...
“it is only in the early stages of the disease, when sores appear on the body, that it is contagious. This was the only stage at which arsenic had any effect at all. After that, syphilis goes into a latent state, in which there are no symptoms, and the patient is not infectious.”
http://www.vdare.com/taylor/tuskegee.htm
“By the mid-1950s, however, penicillin became available as a standard cure for syphilis. Should not the Public Health Service have stopped the study and treated the men? Wasn’t it “racist” not to?
No. By the 1950s, the men had been infected for 20 or 25 years. Some number had died of heart disease probably brought on by tertiary syphilis, but for those who were still alive in the 1950s, the disease had very likely run its course. Ninety men were still part of the program at the time of the last examination in 1963. Penicillin treatment, even when it first became available, would probably have done them no good. Prof. Shweder suggests that by then these men may well have had life expectancies as high as black men of the same age who had never had syphilis at all!”
I've been saying for years that black people are getting their revenge for slavery by voting for Democrats to enslave the rest of us.
Perhaps so. But I JUST CAN’T understand why they can’t or won’t get it together. They’re having a merry time and bullying and provoking as many people as possible. I don’t understand it.
Perhaps so. But I JUST CAN’T understand why they can’t or won’t get it together. They’re having a merry time and bullying and provoking as many people as possible. I don’t understand it.
The issue American blacks have isn’t race; it’s their culture. It’s a failed culture, plain and simple.
So that made it alright?
And in spite what current wisdom and most-prominently publicized archival footage would lead you to believe, black health care professionals were involved at all stages of the study, the study was endorsed by the prominent black organization, the Tuskegee Institute, and as late as 1969 a team consisting mostly of black doctors participated in the Tuskegee “experiments.”
And that made it alright?
In this case the "correction" is worse than what it presumes to "correct."
Put down the broad brush, you might strain yourself.
Twenty five percent of adult black American males are under the control of the Justice system in one capacity or another (prison, parole, probation). Seventy percent of gang related murders in Chicago were black. Seventy percent of black children are to unwed mothers. Fifty four percent of gun violence victims are black males between the ages of 14 and 17.
Go back and read Dr. Bill Cosby's damning critique of popular black culture. Was he using too broad a brush?
Denial of a problem guarantees that no solution will be found. Pity the poor black kids growing up in this environment: most simply don't stand a chance.
How do we point out the insidious nature and magnitude of the exploitation of black children without immediately being labeled "racist" by the race hustlers?
Your thoughts?
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