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The Tuskegee Experiments occurred staring from 1932 until 1972 and involved infecting black men with syphilis without their consent. Ironically, the Experiments were commissioned by the US Public Health Service, a branch of the government formed by an act of Congress in 1798 to provide for the care and relief of sick and injured merchant seamen.
The Experiments started when FDR and the Dems took control of the Federal Government. Let's say that again: Tuskegee started in 1932 once the Democrats took Congress and FDR and the Dems took the White House.
The Democrats ran the Tuskegee Experiments for 40 years.
Whenever you hear mention of Tuskegee, if they mention it at all, the LMSM's immediate reaction "Tuskegee Bad, Bush lied" or anything else to change the subject.
Can you imagine if Prescott Bush ran the US Public Health Service during Tuskegee? You'd never hear the end of Republican Nazi like hatred for colored folk.
But because Democrats ran the experiments, it's just a darn inconvenience because Dems have done so much for blacks: Public assistance, public education, public housing and the Tuskegee Experiment.
CFrank, you really are a dunderhead. FDR was elected POTUS in November, 1932. and inaugurated on March 4, 1933. So, (try and do the math Frank) if the experiments began in 1932 the President was not FDR, it was Herbert Hoover (aka the father of the great depression, a Republican).
Jim Crow was also started under Democrats--Bush Lied!
You can find terrible moments in any presidential term. People make mistakes, and lose sight of what they're doing while trying to figure out the "Big Picture".
It's when you have consistent repetitions of being on the wrong side throughout a presidential term you have to start wondering what the hell was going on.
And keep in mind, a president is shackled by his Congress. Bush was shackled by his DEMOCRATIC congress for the majority of his presidency.
Not that I am a Bush fan, either one. Though the second was worse. Way too "reach across the aisle" for me. You choose right over wrong, and you stick with it, you don't fucking negotiate.
Just keep in mind...hindsight is always 20/20.
Or maybe the intervention, with out being attacked, in WWI, or the provoking of American involvement in WWII, or the interventions in Korea and Vietnam.....As was the suppression of the Filipino Insurrecto 1899 - 1902 a terrible legacy of the Republican imperialists.
I wonder what that fiasco is reminding me of right now?
A graphical depiction of CF's attempted backpedal and overall premise of his op.
Bubba could be a good guy at times, this was one of them.A deeply shameful part of this nations history. Every bit as bad as the official approval of torture by the last administration. However, the nation did not know of this until 1972. Had it become public knowledge sooner, it would have been stopped sooner. I am sure that if Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, or Nixon had known the specifics of this, they would have put an end to it.
NPR : Remembering the Tuskegee Experiment
By then, dozens of the men had died, and many wives and children had been infected. In 1973, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed a class-action lawsuit. A $9 million settlement was divided among the study's participants. Free health care was given to the men who were still living, and to infected wives, widows and children.
But it wasn't until 1997 that the government formally apologized for the unethical study. President Clinton delivered the apology, 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."
These people were treated like animals, there is no doubt about that.
Just makes one yearn for a free government health care system don't it?
Using Human Beings as Laboratory Animals
The true nature of the experiment had to be kept from the subjects to ensure their cooperation. The sharecroppers' grossly disadvantaged lot in life made them easy to manipulate. Pleased at the prospect of free medical care almost none of them had ever seen a doctor before these unsophisticated and trusting men became the pawns in what James Jones, author of the excellent history on the subject, Bad Blood, identified as the longest non-therapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.
The study was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites the theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis, whereas blacks were more susceptible to cardiovascular damage. How this knowledge would have changed clinical treatment of syphilis is uncertain.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
Very interesting article....it took Clinton, who must have felt an immense amount of guilt being from the same political party that condoned these experiments to finally apologize. I can see why the African American community likes him so much.
Bush was liberated by his Republican congress for most of the Presidency and ran this country into the ground. Don't blame Bush's abysmal failure on the Dems. And if the Dems fail in this term to push through health insurance reform before next year's elections, the Pubs are not at fault.
Jim Crow was also started under Democrats--Bush Lied!
No it wasn't!
List of US Presidents
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Andrew Johnson1865-1869Republican
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Ulysses S. Grant1869-1877 Republican
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Rutherford B. Hayes1877-1881 Republican
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James A. Garfield1881 Republican
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Chester A. Arthur1881-1885Republican
Jim Crow Laws started in 1876. That was the year Rutherford B, Hayes, a Republican, was elected.......
Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The History of Jim Crow
Jim Crow in America Timeline
Or maybe the intervention, with out being attacked, in WWI, or the provoking of American involvement in WWII, or the interventions in Korea and Vietnam.....As was the suppression of the Filipino Insurrecto 1899 - 1902 a terrible legacy of the Republican imperialists.
I wonder what that fiasco is reminding me of right now?
Physician, heal thyself.
