Why blacks are skeptical (for Sal)
Posted on: April 12, 2021 at 13:20:04 CT
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a recent Kasier study found that that nearly a third of Black Americans are skeptical about the coronavirus vaccine. The distrust stems from the fact that Black people have been used as medical guinea pigs throughout history. That includes such infamous incidents as the so-called "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," in which white scientists lied to Black men saying that they were treating them for "bad blood" when they were actually watching them suffer and die; or Dr. James Marion Sims' brutal treatment of enslaved babies during neonatal tetanus experiments, where he beat holes into their heads with a shoemaker's awl. Sometimes, the medical establishment doesn't experiment on us but rips us off, like with Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose mutated cancer cells were cultivated and experimented on to this day, without her consent.