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Originally Posted by Olustee bus
now help me understand. Is Biden saying that the reason rural and minorities are not getting vaccines is because they don't know how to get in lines? Is that really the problem. I don't think so. I have heard other reasons. Hell, I saw on tv the other day that it is because of what happened in Alabama 70 years ago.
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I guess one of our black members will have to chime in on that one. I never heard of the Tuskegee debacle until the COVID vaccine. From what I understand, it was a withholding of the syphilis vaccine. Looking 70 years in our past is a bit of a stretch. Are Japanese Americans still afraid of being locked up?
The troubling part is it went on so long without any medical workers saying anything. Tell me again that you want the government deciding your health care!
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TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — Decades later, it’s still hard to grasp what the federal government did to hundreds of black men in rural Alabama — even if you’re among their descendants, lighting candles in their memory.
For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for unsuspecting men infected with a sexually transmitted disease simply so doctors could track the ravages of the horrid illness and dissect their bodies afterward.
Finally exposed in 1972, the study ended and the men sued, resulting in a $9 million settlement. Twenty years ago this month, President Bill Clinton apologized for the U.S. government. It seemed to mark the end of this ugly episode, once and for all.
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https://apnews.com/article/race-and-...ff042285b54d0e