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03/25/2008: "Blacks were not injected with Syphilis"

One peculiar footnote of the Jeremiah Wright controversy has been the repetition -- by educated black men on national television -- of a stubborn myth. That the U.S. government "injected black men with
syphilis."

Rev. Wright said from the pulpit, in a video clip shown on Fox News: "The government lied about the Tuskegee experiment! They purposely infected African-American men with syphilis!"

In the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," federal researchers refused to treat a group of black men who already had syphilis, long after a cure had been found.

[ Just a little reality in the midst of the rhetoric. ]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-mills/blacks-injected-with-sy_b_92896.html