Between 1932 and 1972, 399 poor, illiterate black men from the Tuskegee, Alabama area were used in a U.S. Public Health Service clinical study of the syphilis disease. All of the participating men tested positive for syphilis yet none of them knew of or were ever informed of their illness. Instead, they were told by the physicians and scientists conducting the study that they had "bad blood" and would receive free health care as participants of this study. The U.S Public Heath Service fooled these men into thinking that they would help them when in reality, they had no intention on providing assistance. The purpose of this study was to follow the natural progression of untreated syphilis therefore no medical aide was provided to the participating men. Rather than providing care, the physicians in this study stood by and watched as innocent black men suffered and died from a curable disease. This study is most popularly known as the Tuskegee Experiment. This study was created and funded by United States Government.
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Between 1932 and 1972, 399 poor, illiterate black men from the Tuskegee, Alabama area were used in a U.S. Public Health Service clinical study of the syphilis disease. All of the participating men tested positive for syphilis yet none of them knew of or were ever informed of their illness. Instead, they were told by the physicians and scientists conducting the study that they had "bad blood" and would receive free health care as participants of this study. The U.S Public Heath Service fooled these men into thinking that they would help them when in reality, they had no intention on providing assistance. The purpose of this study was to follow the natural progression of untreated syphilis therefore no medical aide was provided to the participating men. Rather than providing care, the physicians in this study stood by and watched as innocent black men suffered and died from a curable disease. This study is most popularly known as the Tuskegee Experiment. This study was created and funded by United States Government.
After reading this article, NO ONE can convince me that our nation's recent obsession with race is not a conspiracy. This is all just so ridiculous….
If you click the link above you will see an article entitled Sherrod Story False, which, aside from being slightly well-written, is pure garbage. The author of this trash is Jeff Lord, a former political director for the Reagan White House. It is almost unbelievable that this man, having been in the position that he was once in, could write such absurdity.
If you don't feel like reading Lord's article in full (which I highly suggest you do) I will give you a brief rundown of what it says:
In general, Lord is accusing Shirley Sherrod of lying during her March 2009 NAACP speech. In her speech, Sherrod speaks about a family member, Bobby Hall, who she states was lynched by white sheriff Claude Screws, sometime in the 1940s. Sherrod states that despite the fact that Screws murdered Hall, he was never convicted of murder by his all white jury; he was instead convicted of violating Hall's civil rights. This story, as told by Sherrod, is one of a black man's lynching at the hands of a white sheriff. This story, as explained by Lord, is completely untrue.
According to Lord's research, Bobby Hall was not lynched by Claude Screws---he was BEATEN TO DEATH by Screws and two other unnamed men. Lord's research revealed that Screws was never charged with the lynching of Hall because he never actually hung Hall; he only beat him to an untimely death.
Lord continues his article accusing Sherrod of knowing that Hall was never "lynched" and he further accuses her of embellishing her story for effect sake. He compares her "untrue" story to that of Breitbart posting the edited video of her speech on his blog and FOXNEWS' subsequent posting of that video on their website. As it seems, the purpose of this article is to discredit Sherrod because of course, you can't blame people like Breitbart or FOXNEWS for their misrepresentations of Sherrod if you don't hold Sherrod accountable for her lies.
Well, I guess it would be understandable to check Sherrod just as we have done Breitbart and FOXNEWS, if she deliberately perpetrated a lie as the truth. But she didn't. And how do I know this? Well….
Since Lord decided to do all of that completely irrelevant research (because the point of the matter was that Bobby Hall was murdered and his white murder was never adequately charged), I decided to do some research of my own. I took it upon myself to go to a dictionary and look up the word lynch to see just how untrue Sherrod's story is. And guess what I found? I found that Sherrod's story actually is true. How about that?
According to MerriamWebster.com, lynch (v) is defined as:
To put to death (as by hanging) by a mob action without legal sanction
In addition, according to Dictionary.com, lynch (v) is defined as:
To punish (a person) without legal process or authority, especially by hanging, for a perceived offence or as a act of bigotry
I find it VERY interesting that, while 'hanging' is defined as one example of lynching, neither of the given definitions indicates that as the only form of lynching. Each definition specifies that to lynch is an action of punishment or murder that is committed without legal authority. Interestingly enough, Sherrod's story was that of a black man who was murdered by a white man without legal sanction or retribution, which is the exact definition of lynch.
So, all of the research conducted by Lord is worthless because he never took the time to simply define the word lynch. Had Lord looked in a dictionary before sifting through court cases and whatnot, he could have saved himself a lot of time and a large portion of his dignity. Sometimes it's the simple things that we forget…or rather purposely neglect to mention…..
I'm just saying.
Mz.Jonezy
The sudden attack on black 'reverse racism' and black bigotry fails to end where Geraldo Rivera left off (check this link for more on that).
Shirley Sherrod, a black USDA official has resigned from her position at the request of USDA deputy secretary Tom Vilsack, after it was discovered that Sherrod neglected to fully assist a white man who was in danger of losing his farm---nearly 24 years ago.
I wonder why...
I've been hearing about this practive of 'prison-gerrymandering' and I am a little perplexed. In my opinion, prison-gerry-mandering is a bit of a bad idea. With this practice, inmates are counted on the 2010 Census as being residents of the city in which they are incarcerated, not the city that they are from. Does that make sense?
If my uncle/brother/father/son/etc is set to do a 3 year bid in a prison in PA but will be back home in DE once released, why would you count him as a PA resident? That is ridiculous. We are encourgaing everyone to fill out the census form so that we can get an ACCURATE count of the people in each state, city, and town. The federal government determines how much federal aid that they will give to certain cities based upon the census results. How does the federal government expect ACCURATE results when they are allowing a total miscount of American inmates?
There is a supposed 10.4% of the total population of black males aged 25-29 is in prison. Since many inner cities do not have prisons in their juridiction, these men are being counted as citizens of cities to which THEY DO NOT BELONG. Yet the government complains about the inner city not receiving it's fair share of federal aid becasue people in the inner city often ignore the census count. Well, try counting our incarerated men (and women) as being citizens of the city that you pulled them from rather than the city that you placed them in. It may not make a drastic life-changing difference in our federal aid but at least it would help.
My common sense has me so confused by this, maybe I need to do a little more research into this whole 'prison-gerrymandering' thing....
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