Originally Posted by justabubba

we did not "invent" syphilis either we tested it, not unlike the nazis, on an ostracized race.
so, if anything i would be able to fanthom that HIV testing could have similarly occurred with black subjects.
but while i personally do not believe that happened, i can see the potential. even more, i can see an African American contemporary of the Tuckegee subjects, who has ministered to black folks oppressed during the jim crow era, willing to believe that the United States is capable of such heinous behavior ... what is past is prelude

Originally Posted by BuckNaked

You realize they offered them no treatment, and used them basically as lab rats?

Originally Posted by Celestial Child

Is Aids an attempt to exterminate Blacks

Originally Posted by BuckNaked

Granted on that point, but they thought they were being treated. Most were never even told exactly what they had!

http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm





Lab rats!

Originally Posted by justabubba

let's look at this from the perspective of an elder black person who ministered to those who had to endure the indignities inflicted on our African-American population during the jim crow era:

http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/.../jul/tuskegee/

anyone see where any white folks were included in that experiment, where humans were subjected to life threatening disease and left untreated? anyone recall how the nazis would single out the Jews to suffer "medical" experiments to see how much cold they could tolerate before they died?

now, let's look again at the question which the OP raised:

probably not. but can we be sure, based on what has happened before? answer that question as a person of color would whose contemporaries died because of the withholding of medicine during a medical "experiment"