No it's not. It's quite easy to "draw conclusions about today's government" based on information like this. Partisan hack, much?
Not really, Poodle.
You see, back in the day when the study started, they still treated syhphilis sticking mercury in dude's dicks. The study was started before pennecillin was found to be a cure for EARLY stages of the disease, and by the time it was discovered, most of these men were in the advanced stage of the disease.
While there was some racism involved, it's not what you are portraying it as... an evil government plot.
It was just that the science at the time was bad.