Leave it to Jonah Goldberg to set the record straight, after Jeremiah Wright’s notorious assertion that the U.S. government purposely injected black men with syphilis. It DID NOT!
So what did happen? In 1932, public health researchers set out to study syphilis, particularly among African Americans, who had higher infection rates than whites. They recruited 399 black men who already had syphilis. The doctors infected no one. In fact, the patients were selected in the first place because they were tertiary-stage syphilitics who were no longer contagious.
This article ought to be required reading for most of the Left, and at least half of the Right, who let these allegations go unchallenged (thinking of O’Reilly and Hannity in particular). I’m certain there is enough darkness in American history to satisfy anyone whose agenda is to tear it down, to damage it, to find reasons to justify their hate for it. There is no need to rewrite history in the way that Reverend Wright and much of the liberal media seem wont to do. By all means, take a moment to hit the link and read the full article. And don’t fall into the rewrite history trap. We can all detect major BS when confonted with it… I’m thinking of the latest pathetic holocaust accusation by Hamas. Most of us would be quick to denounce this kind of historical rewrite.
Jewish leaders concocted the mass murder of handicapped Jews in order to keep from having to support them, and this murder is what the Jews term “the Holocaust,” according to a documentary special that aired on April 18 on Hamas’s Al Aqsa television station.
We should all be as quick to denounce the poisonous crap coming out of the mouths of people like Wright. This kind of stuff goes way beyond the “dodging snipers” kind of story re-telling, this is wholesale rewritting of history to promote a political agenda. And the truly sad thing is that most folks don’t know enough history, or just don’t care, to be able to put the liars down.
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