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CL HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT

Thursday, September 10, 2009

( A doctor administers a blood test to an unidentified subject )

The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment began in 1932, when the Public Health Service started working with the Tuskegee Institute to study the effects of syphilis on the human body. However, the nearly 400 poor black men who participated in the study were never informed they even had syphilis nor were they treated for it.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the men were told they were being treated for “bad blood”, a local term used to describe several illnesses, including syphilis, anemia and fatigue. In exchange for their participation, the men were given free medical exams, free meals and free burial insurance. Although originally projected to last 6 months, the study went on for 40 years.

Dr. Taliaferro Clark is credited with the origin of the study after he suggested the racial variation in the effects of syphilis so that Southern legislators would increase funding for treatment programs. Clark believed Macon County would be the perfect location for the study as it had one of the highest rates of syphilis in the nation.

Tuskegee Institute agreed to support the study if it received “its full share of the credit” and black professionals were involved. Dr. Eugene Dibble, and nurse Eunice Rivers, who both worked at John Andrew Hospital at the Tuskegee Institute, were recruited.

Following Clark’s retirement, Dr. Raymond H. Vonderlehr was appointed director of the research program. Instead of studying syphilis during a defined period of time in the population, as Clark had proposed, he decided that the study would continue until all the men died and their bodies could be examined.

At the beginning of the study, there was no proven treatment for syphilis. Even after penicillin became a standard cure for the disease in 1947, the medicine was withheld from the men so scientists could continue to study how the disease spreads and kills. With the assistance of local and government health officials, Tuskegee Institute, physicians and draft boards, the men were never to be treated.

The experiment went on for four decades, until Peter Buxtun, a social worker and epidemiologist, leaked the story to the media. By then, dozens of the men had died, and many wives and children had been infected. In 1973, a class-action lawsuit was filed, awarding a $9 million settlement to be divided among the study’s participants and free health care to be given to survivors, infected wives, widows and children.

In 1997, President Bill Clinton formally apologized for the unethical study, saying what the government had done was deeply, profoundly and morally wrong:

“To the survivors, to the wives and family members, the children and the grandchildren, I say what you know: No power on Earth can give you back the lives lost, the pain suffered, the years of internal torment and anguish.

What was done cannot be undone. But we can end the silence. We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you in the eye and finally say, on behalf of the American people: what the United States government did was shameful.

And I am sorry.”

Ernest Hendon, the last living survivor of the study, died Jan. 16, 2004. He was 96.

VIDEOS ABOUT ‘THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT’

LINKS / REFERENCES: Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Tuskegee Timeline, Wikipedia

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1.

afrobella82

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

That whole thing was just wrong on so many levels.

2.

ZULU

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

LMAO @ the look on the face of the white dude holding the syringe. He should be the poster child for white people and their agenda worldwide.

3.

Taj

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

wow .. and smh

4.

Trailblaza

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Unfortunately this is still goin on today except now it’s called hip-hop.

5.

KIDDO

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

p.s. I DON’T TRUST THE SWINE FLU SHOT!

6.

LA

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Now days black people are just straight up ignorant, even after history of blacks being experimented, spit and beat on.

7.

MY2SENSE

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

NOTHING NEW HERE!!! HISTORY HAS ALREADY REPEATED ITSELF, DOC’S ARE GIVING BLACKS AIDS ALL OVER THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY IN AFRICA!!!

8.

TJACK25

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This is one of the reasons why WPs & the government can’t be trusted. There is always a motive or hidden agenda behind something. Just mentally corrupt since the beginning of time!!

My day was going good, yall bout to get me upset!

9.

AlexIS

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Ahhh, Kiddo! Me either…there are hella kids on my campus with swine flu. I hear everybody will soon be required to get the shot But I refuse. I just have a really bad vibe about the whole thing for some reason.

Anywho- I’ve heard of the Tuskegee Experiment before and even now I’m shaking my head- how God awful and wreckless and careless…and all of those horrible things. Umm, reasons like this I kinda just don’t trust the government.

10.

cbreezie007

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

….and ppl still think they can trust the gov’t..smh!
this a damn shame and angers me to highest extent.

11.

April

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

It is sad that after so much pain and turmoil racism is still alive and kicking it goes from a senator being outwardly racist and disrespectful to the undercover racism in cooperate America and other places of employment why is America such a sad place just because of the hue of someone’s skin tone, how sad……

12.

RIP TO THE MARTYRS

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

rigshit…
you see “syphillis experiment..”..right?
they damn well knew the effects ..thats how you know that all of theses STDs are bogus and have been made in labs…i bet that there was no damn syphillis rate in that town before but becuase it was a small town, mostly lived in by black people, it was the perfect place to do this ‘experiment’…
those poor people…

13.

Hmm

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Everytime I hear/read about this story it reassures me of the evil intent in some people. May God bless their surely damned and condemned souls.

14.

Negrita

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

So Wrong…There’s a Movie About It With Laurence Fishburne & Alfre woodward.

15.

jazmin

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

wow! its a shame how uneducated i was on this. 40 years??????? wow.. just wow

16.

sj

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This was a shame…and this experiment is the reason why I won’t and don’t get “flu shots”.

17.

Mikki

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

this is sick but I’m not shocked none the less. The Gov’t smh. Like #1 said this is wrong on so many levels

18.

Capital G

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

The United States Government has perpetrated many inhumane offenses on African Americans to include:

The Port of Chicago Incident ( Naval Court-Marshall of Black sailors)

Black Wallstreet Massacre (Tulsa , Ok.)

The “trail of tears” death march (Relocation of Black Indian tribes to Ok.)

the infiltration and destruction of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.

The United States has always looked at Afrikans as “sub-human/chattle” and it is evidenced by the “2/3 of a man” reference in the U.S. Constitution. (Yes, it’s still in there)

Blacks have earned the full rights of citizens of the United States by virtue of the fact that Blacks have fought and died (with unequalled bravery) in every war ever fought in this country under the stars and stripes! Yet, we are noted for the worst healthcare standards and early deaths in America. Does anybody know the numbers on the percentage of Black war veterans that are amoung the homeless ranks in America? I dare say ….”lots.”

The even that opened my eyes about what the American Government really thought about black people was hurricane Katrina. The way that was handled showed me all I really needed to know about what they think about black people here.

Kanye West was right, “The governemnt don’t care about Black people!”

These experiments in Tuskegee only further serve to confirm that belief.

19.

ANGELONFIRE

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

@ 14. That’s not the same thing. That movie is about ‘The Tuskegee Airmen Experiment’

20.

S. DOT

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

I had no idea. Great coverage.

21.

Negrita

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

@Angel Oh Ok, Thanks

22.

SassyT

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This is one of many blotches on our American history. It’s a sad shame that issues such as these are still happening today not just in the U.S., but all over the world. Our government has always been shady; I don’t trust them.

23.

pz

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

everytime i see this it hurts my soul and tarnishes my faith in this country!!!! God have mercy on us!

24.

helenadufresene

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

I thought about that movie too when I read the part about bad blood so that was a totally different experiment…thanks for the knowledge I missed the history post…

25.

luveymonroe

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This is why a lot of black men don’t go to the doctors today.

26.

ROYALFLUSHLADY

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Historic Reminder - Thank You - Be ENVIED Black MEN.

27.

Enneirda07

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

@ 19 no they are right there is a movie about this starring them called Miss Evers Boys

As a student at Tuskegee University its great to see this spotlighted. A lot people don’t know about this (including on campus) so its great to see something educational on the blog from time to time.

28.

bea

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Yea “EXPERIMENT” MY ASS!

They were testing on people or just giving to them, callin that shyt studying for the diesease. Yea alrite.

People better wake up! They be doing shyt under your nose and you if you ain’t to smart to read between the lines and think out the box they gonna get your ass too!

Protect your self espically with that Swine Flu( knock, knock)

Natural Herbs, Jucies, Be Healthy,. Be Safe.

am out.

29.

Minnie

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

i remember reading about this…

this is the same exact reason why blacks are very suspicious of so called vaccinations now

30.

Been Prissy Since1908

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Glad u guys posted this up, i did a term paper on this during undergrad 4 my psych class! it was simply SICK all across the board

31.

MWNY

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

It seems like every step we take “they” think of a way to push us back i.e. LIE!! I bet there are still some type of “experiments” going on that we don’t know about. I don’t put anything past the US Government anymore. They will do whatever they have to do BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. Bush or Cheney anyone?

32.

Lacy

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Get good Cl! Features like this is what set you apart from the other Blogs ….

33.

ANGEL

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

@ 21 & 27. I stand corrected. I assumed she was talking about the Airman movie. Didn’t realize that Laurence Fishburne starred in both films. Completely forgot about ‘Miss Evers Boys’

34.

DREI

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

OUTRAGED!!!!

35.

helenadufresene

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

LACY I totally agree with that you on that one…

36.

MY2SENSE

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Of course it goes on today.

That’s why you better listen to your President. He said it last night.

The whole healthcare system is a scam. Dr’s are paid to misdiagnose or not to diagnos at all. The healthcare system is a billion dollar business.

The healthcare opposers dont want change b/c its less money in their pockets. The will be held accountable under a govt sponsored hc system.

Dr.’s get kickbacks from the medicines they prescribe and from all the referrals they give to other dr.’s. it’s a business.

the only way to become aware is to become educated.

The U.S. govt always will treat blacks as second class citizens, this should not be a n eye opener to any one who knows their history!

37.

whatsreallygood?

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Trailblaza you said it perfectly. This was very sickening to read, that is why we always got to keep ourselves aware and educated.

38.

peacekeeper

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Good post.

Now, if people can leave over 100 replies about nothing regarding a Ciara pap shot, this education piece should attract even more attention.

39.

Lisa

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

* You all should know that the new H1N1 flu vaccine comes in a nasal spray, as well as in needle form — Get you doctor to give you the nasal spray version.
(They did a news story of this on CNN last week)

* You all need to know that testing for AIDS can now be done without getting blood drawn with a needle. Doctors can now use a large q-tip to swab the gums in your mouth, and test that swab to find out if you have HIV, or AIDS. Ask you doctor to swab your gums to test for HIV, and AIDS.

(By the way, a black doctor showed a demonstration of this gum swabbing method on BET’s 106 and Park show , a few months ago. It is just as accurate as getting blood drawn with a needle - so ask you doctor about the swab test for HIV and AIDS )

40.

KIDDO

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Oh my word! PEACEKEEPER!

I was just saying the same damn thing!

who gives a shit about what kind of nail polish Ri Ri has on!

Do you see how blacks get the tail end of the stick! this is why!

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER PEOPLE, WAKE UP!

41.

AN UPGRADED NEW NEGRO

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

It is well known that our government has done some shady things to people of color in the past but what do we do about it? Sit around, shake our heads and complain or take action. Our destiny is in our hand people, take control of it!

42.

beaky

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

sh#ts disgusting.. Im a black man from london england so this is the first time iv heard of this.. And i have to admit my eyes became moist whilst readin that article smh

43.

dctrinigyal

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This is why i love Concreteloop! I learn something new everyday!

44.

GregStar

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Wow damn shame…thanks Dakar

45.

GO GO GO

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Things like this still happen in Africa… watch the film “The Constant Gardener”

46.

Jamila

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

I remember watching the movie “Miss Evers’ Boys” a few years back about it. I’m so skeptical of any shots. Way too many conspiracy theories out there. Everyone stay safe and stay smart! ♥

47.

theComplex

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Great feature!

And don’t think something like this has not happened since or will not happen again. This is a big reason I rather have the FLU, which I have now…

48.

JUDAH

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

——Lmao at some of these actors on this thread. Some of the same names that call
——everything a “conspiracy” and the people who are aware of it “conspiracy
——theorists”. The Tuskegee experiment is the very tip of the iceberg in regards
——to the germ warfare that has been, & is still being waged on the black, hispanic,
——and native american communities, and the dark races worldwide by the devil that
——the Bible speaks of. The only way to get a negro to believe it is a documentary,
——unfortunately. One of the main modern day weapons for the propagation of AIDS
——in the black comunity that the white man is currently using is the
——microbioinoculator. That, in tandem with the demonization of the black male is
——intended to lower the population by making blacks fear procreation with each
——other, which indirectly promotes h*mosexuality and l*sbianism. It’s something
——that the white man has always done in his history, but the American whites got
——many of their ideas from the Nazis after they brought their scientists to America
——in what was known as “Operation Paperclip”.

49.

Whoever

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Very Interesting and informative post!!! I have no words though…. This is just unbelievable! I saw this on another site a few days ago and I looked it up…. some people say that it never happened… sounds like they were trying to sweep the issue under a rug! The relatives of those infected need to be heavily compensated! They lost precious time with loved ones to this! 9 million for relatives of 400 people is not enough! Not to mention they exploited these vulnerable people who were probably uneducated and did not fully grasp the consequences!

50.

Vee1

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

I read about this ish. The goverment took advantage of poor, uneducated and illerate black men for some expirmental mess. Sphyllis will eventually start affecting your brain before you die causing things such as demtia….just terrible the many injustices our people have suffered at the hands of the goverenment. Burial insurance though..cause they knew the outcome wasn’t going to be good. SMDH

51.

MY2SENSE

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

@JUDAH - the American govt didnt need the help of the Nazi’s to experiment on Africans/Blacks or the Indians. Americans created the most sadistic violent society against Africans/Indians that was never seen before.

Maybe the Nazi’s introduced a new way but I doubt it. Africans were plagued w/ different diseases contracted from those nasty ass Europeans in route to America or the Caribbean. Europeans/Americans poisoned the Indians garmets/cloths and killed thousands of them, it’s called the “…….. Trail” the name escapes me. But the point is European/Americans are the most vicious sadistic type of persons in the world.

Like Malcolm X said. This govt cant go to any country and declare that they brought peace to that land. The US govt is only associated w/ violence. It’s in their nature. This country was stolen by the scum of the earth - ousted by the European govt.

Food for thought people, Im done doing dishes!

52.

brezzy lol smiley face

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

for one thing i dont understand why blacks have higher rates in having an std than other races
and another thing people of no matter race can still do you dirty ex: the government
why people say this and that about whites when its the same if whites say blacks could rob them. like i said b4 anyone could do you dirty at any given moment no matter what race.

53.

sunlight

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This is shameful. And the woman Miss Evers, a black woman, lead all those men to their deaths and they gave her an award. I am a black woman, and nobody could make me sell my brothers down the river like that!

54.

sunlight

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This is shameful. And the woman Miss Evers, a black woman, lead all those men to their deaths and they gave her an award. I am a black woman, and nobody could make me sell my brothers down the river like that!

55.

Olly

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

I won’t be surprised if the HIV virus was introduced in the same way!!! Pharmecutical companies have been known to be testing experimentative drugs in african villages as well.

56.

DizzyGuy

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This shiz was terrible. I am going to get a flu shot…I WILL BE CHECKING THAT NEEDLE SYRINGE…lolz..j/k. That is really terrible. That guy is somewhere in hell right now with a lighter fluid diaper.

57.

simplylovely

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

See, this the kind of shit that make me want to rob white people!

58.

sigh

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Lmao @ 57!!!!!

Stuff like this makes me hate white people.

59.

N.M.J.

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Tp many emotions running through me as I read this article and the thought and fear this is could be happening now…omg, God please help us…smh

60.

LaShana

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Wow, shocked! “People” can be so evil.

61.

Jacory

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This was a incredible tragedy,but there is going to be stuff a lot worse than this,if those Republicans ever get the Presidency back.Those Conservative Republicans are on some serious Nazi shit.

62.

Lorenzo

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

It`s true that American whites got a lot of their racist ideas from Nazi`s,but te Nazi`s got their racist views on black people,from Arabs and the ISLAMIC religion.Islam is black peoples biggest problem, Arabs have been persecuting Blacks a lot longer than white people.,we are talking thousands of years and even today they are in Sudan and Somalia and other parts of Africa,teaching the racist concept that blacks are animals and slaves. a Black people,Ethiopians,discovered India,thousands of years ago,today they are called Dravidians or the Tamil, Arabs invaded India and commited genocide against the blacks who founded India,and Hitler called these Arabs,ARYANS,AND HE sent scientists to India to study how Arabs invaded and killed Blacks so that he could use the same methods on the Jews.

63.

THISISME

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

thank you concreteloop. I am so sick of the evil that thrives in this country and they expect us to sing the star spangled banner loud and proud!

64.

College Girl

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

@ 27 (Enneirda07) I am also a student at Tuskegee, though I’m assuming one younger than you because I had orientation last year. Last year they added a program into orientation class in which we learn about the Tuskegee Experiment. More people will know about this as long as this program stays in place. Oh, and TU…YOU KNOW! lol.

65.

Mississippi Scarlet

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

i knew about this since my uncle gave me this book called ” Emerging Virus: Aids and Ebola” y’all need to cop this book..HIV was also invented and tested in one of the W.H.O secret labs in Geneva. Believe me ppl they actually have a lab where they run test on how to weaken the human immune system by taking all sorts of animal components and other chemical composition to infect our body they experiment in hopes of getting rid of certain ethnicity and population, the last time I checked no one has ever won the human race. and dont believe anything that is FDA approved they are all run by W.H.O! Thank you CL for sheding the light.

66.

a4amazn

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

Does anyone ever take a minute to think about the history of our world. LIke really really think about all the fucked up shit people have done to other people. smh.

67.

darklove

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

i hate white people

68.

Mississippi Scarlet

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

to shed the light on HIV for the curious minds.’ll give a lil insight on what i’ve been researchin concerning HIV.
HIV wasn’t heard about until the late 60’s early 70s. the test were first done in a small village in the Congo(Hence the reason why people are made to believe HIV started in Africa). The claim is that a man ate or even had sex with a gorilla or a monkey(too many twisted stories) and transmitted to others but little do people know that certain diseases that certain animals contract cannot infect the human body. I’m no scientist but the last time I checked the HIV virus contains the following mind bothering things; visna virus (sheep); bovine virus (cows); equine virus (horses); feline virus (cats) and simian virus (monkeys). As I have stated before many virus that infect animals cannot infect human beings, this leads me to ask the following question how in the world did they manage to infect the human immune system with animal virus???..I know I havent said much much it will take 365 days to fully explain this whole saga..I leave it up to you search the truth…

I also want to say that I’ve been reading the bible alot lately and one thing I’ve noticed is that when a nation has strayed away from God, he tends to plague them with all sorts of diseases and wars n mishaps and he not doing it because he hates us he does it so we can cry unto him to show us the right way to live.

69.

de

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

This is the most craziest thing I have heard in a while. How can white people say they don’t know what the hell racism is when this is proof right here. America is going to pay!

70.

JL

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

@ 67

You’re reverse racism is a blinder which can ultimately lead to your destruction. When you open your eyes, you will see that evil can come in all colors.

71.

JL

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

“They” are using racism against us, so that we support ANYTHING “black” and hate everything “white”…

72.

sowhat_12345678

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

@71

WRONG! “They” successfully manage to make us hate ourselves!

73.

dree

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

welp Karma is a bitch, and all the crap the government as a whole has cause is coming back to it, The things we did as a country whether knowingly our unknowingly are going to affect us all. I only pray for us to realize what we’ve done, so that we can become better than this.

target the poor, especially the black poor cause know one will bother to notice, of course no one but God

74.

TOONS

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

You take that H1NI virus if you want to. For your FYI here are the ingrediants. BTW There is legislation in place to force these vaccines, if you refuse you will not be able to go to school or work or travel.

Live H1N1: Flue Virus
Nutrient Solution: Cancerous cells from animals, namely monkeys
Formaldehyde : a preservative used in corpses
Thermerasol : Mercury
MF-59: a) Squalene a vaccine used on GIs, strongly linked to Gullf War Syndrome which killed thousands

b)GP120- belonging to the envelope of the AIDS Virus, HIV proteins and peptides

The plan is for Whites to be the rulling class and Chinese to be the subservient class. It’s Hitler all over again, they are exterminating the population slowly.

75.

JL

Thursday, September 10, 2009 /

@ 72

Our President is Black!
How did they “successfully manage” to make us hate ourselves?

“Black Pride” is a large part of what got Obama to the White House and “Black Pride” is also the blinder that leads us to support everything he does.

You have to Think, and not Group Think.
Thanks.

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