Posted on 02/19/2010 1:26:51 PM 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.
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Lol...just plain lol...
Oh please gimme a break on the victimhood, Soledad. This 2010.
Even IF all of the story were not a myth.
The idea of current day black americans being afraid of seeking medical care is a real triumph of class and race politics over reality.
We live in a society in which business owners fear a charge of racism like teh plague, yet kids are being brought up believing teh KKK is out there along with police dogs to attack blacks.
Another American tragedy. IF all this racism exited, youy’d think maybe our black president would be doing something about it? Or our liberal democrat Congress?
Tragic.
The irony of this is that one of the biggest ‘plots’ to kill black people is abortion.
I keep trying to figure out why people who hate white people and hate this country continue to stay here.
Is this article correct? Is the Tuskeegee story really a myth?
Self-loathing is addictive. Victim-identification is addictive.
That’s why they stay here.
““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.”
A better argument against socialized/government health care I cannot think of.
Where is the free Health care for Poor White people?
Where is the free Health care for Poor White people?
““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.”
A better argument against socialized/government health care I cannot think of.
Well, they like the country fine.
They just intend to make it their country, to the exclusion of you.
pro·jec·tion (pr-jkshn)
NOUN:
Psychology
The attribution of one’s own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others: “Even trained anthropologists have been guilty of unconscious projectionof clothing the subjects of their research in theories brought with them into the field” (Alex Shoumatoff).
The attribution of one’s own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.
Oh for ....! Men don’t go to the doctor because we are MEN! It’s just part of our nature.
pro·jec·tion (pr-jkshn)
NOUN:
Psychology
The attribution of one’s own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others: “Even trained anthropologists have been guilty of unconscious projection of clothing the subjects of their research in theories brought with them into the field” (Alex Shoumatoff).
The attribution of one’s own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.
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