The Tuskegee Study

In 1932 the United States Public Health Service commissioned a study on the effects of untreated syphilis. 600 poor black men from Alabama were selected to be a part of the study and were told that they were being reviewed for “bad blood.” From there, the Tuskegee Study took a turn for the worst.
Medical professionals were able to successfully diagnose two-thirds of the men in the study, and by 1940, a known treatment was available. But, instead of offering treatment, medical professionals opted to chart the course of the disease versus offer the known cure to the black men. In would take over 40 years before this study officially ended, and even longer before an official apology came from the United States government.
In this episode of Black History in Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. - with additional commentary from Imani Perry of Princeton University and Hasan Jeffries of Ohio State University - we relive a horrific moment of unethical treatment and deceptive practices that still haunts African-Americans today.
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  • @emptyspacebluefireball
    @emptyspacebluefireball3 жыл бұрын

    This is why we should not give the government more power. Well this and a lot more.

  • @1990758

    @1990758

    3 жыл бұрын

    Give they already have

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    oops, too late. They just did it again with the covid 'vaxx', but only on a world wide scale. Time to get a bit less naieve perhaps?

  • @emptyspacebluefireball

    @emptyspacebluefireball

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scififan698 how am I naive? Or are you referring to humans as a whole?

  • @gabbyball2162
    @gabbyball21623 жыл бұрын

    That is so heartbreaking, no wonder for years my parents would only take me to black doctors and dentists.

  • @dub2536

    @dub2536

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely terrifying! This was exposed. Imagine what might not have been!!?!

  • @highlyfavoredMG

    @highlyfavoredMG

    3 жыл бұрын

    Even the black doctors are sell out.It is sad

  • @pwieland3934

    @pwieland3934

    3 жыл бұрын

    Researchers in the US are all taught about this and other crimes/failures, and must do more to prove they're not going to harm research participants. But the research still suggests that if you are Black, you have better outcomes with a doctor who looks like you. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-patients-black-physicians-need-improve-health-outcomes-african-americans-n1000696

  • @Muunkee

    @Muunkee

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Twist is now they leave out their were injected with syphilis !

  • @premadonna717

    @premadonna717

    2 жыл бұрын

    The nurse who coerced the men into being a part of it was black.

  • @BlackJesusdotcom
    @BlackJesusdotcom4 жыл бұрын

    This is excellent. These bite size Black History/American History facts will help to fill in the historical gaps that are intentionally not taught in America's schools.

  • @lemonhead9628

    @lemonhead9628

    3 жыл бұрын

    yeah i didn't even learn that in school i had to look for it smh

  • @dub2536

    @dub2536

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now they wanna get us to be vaccinated. SMH!

  • @granolachola3669

    @granolachola3669

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dub2536 Remember, the treatments worked. The Tuskegee men were denied treatment.

  • @dub2536

    @dub2536

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@granolachola3669 To my knowledge the Tuskegee men were infected with a disease by the govt. Allegedly some have died from this most recent vaccine. I am confused as to what "the treatments worked" or which treatments you are referring to.

  • @notsureiL

    @notsureiL

    3 жыл бұрын

    The X-Files filled me in. They mentioned the Tuskegee experiment and now I'm here to learn more.

  • @wai0937
    @wai09373 жыл бұрын

    I found this through learning about the character of Isiah Bradley in Falcon & Winter Soldier.

  • @estevezalexa

    @estevezalexa

    3 жыл бұрын

    same. I'm not american so idk if they learn this in school (i'm guessing they don't) but this is was the first time I heard about this and it's so horrific.

  • @charlielarson1582

    @charlielarson1582

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@estevezalexa We did not learn this in school. We didn't learn a lot of things we should have. There are still people fighting to not have racial issues and history like this taught in school (and from a non-whitewashed perspective). We've got a lot of work to do here in the US.

  • @Idkman707

    @Idkman707

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@estevezalexa depends on the school district. Most public schools don't teach it, not surprising that the government wants to cover up the fact that they experimented on their own citizens. There's a better chance that kids in private schools and home schools have learned about it.

  • @coreymerchant5482

    @coreymerchant5482

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ms Evers boys , a 1997 movie about this

  • @radiolobo9970
    @radiolobo99703 жыл бұрын

    10 million is pennies for what they went though. Not a mistrust of scienice a mistrust of the gov

  • @Trollamollex

    @Trollamollex

    2 жыл бұрын

    Look at what they did to Fat so they could sell more corn and sugar. Remember, science isn't the scientific method. What makes that worse is that the scientific "facts" can be bought and manipulated willfully for the right price.

  • @NaviR64
    @NaviR643 жыл бұрын

    This is the history we should teach more of

  • @sylviayarrell8421

    @sylviayarrell8421

    2 жыл бұрын

    Each One, Must Teach One!!

  • @jjnoey6777
    @jjnoey6777 Жыл бұрын

    And now they’re doing it to everybody!

  • @ANAHATAJADE
    @ANAHATAJADE3 жыл бұрын

    How does a government correct the horrors, the shame, the insults, the intentional pain and suffering of its own people? It's not enough to say you are sorry when it was intentionally done, And it seems easy for someone else to give the apology when that someone was not involved in the suffering even though they may represent that government.

  • @1990758

    @1990758

    3 жыл бұрын

    For some people you just give him a lot of money I said some people not all

  • @malindalewis5715

    @malindalewis5715

    2 жыл бұрын

    They're not as sorry as they're going to be!

  • @THEREALGATES

    @THEREALGATES

    Жыл бұрын

    Reparations

  • @benjammin5252
    @benjammin52522 жыл бұрын

    My small town high school told me about this and showed us a movie on it after we learned about it. So edifying you learn to not always take what you hear at face value and ask questions.

  • @railroadtrash09
    @railroadtrash092 жыл бұрын

    A coworker who is Black said this is his reason for not taking the covid shot. Now I understand why.

  • @lesabooth5243

    @lesabooth5243

    2 жыл бұрын

    But that was then, this is now. Do you know that syphilis was also a pandemic with white people as well ? Especially in Europe. There also was many many pandemics. Oh please get over it

  • @lesabooth5243

    @lesabooth5243

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh please whites and every nationality were dying of multitudes of plagues too . School yourself and learn how not to be so narrow minded

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    smart guy who actually learned something from history, unlike many many other fools.

  • @artisanshrew
    @artisanshrew3 жыл бұрын

    I didn’t think u could summarize so quickly but this is EXCELLENT! THANK YOU!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @krisMcA82
    @krisMcA822 жыл бұрын

    That’s absolutely horrible ! What a thing to do to people . Why ? Because they were Black Americans ? 🤦🏻‍♂️ …. As a Brit 🇬🇧 this is the 1st I’ve ever really heard about this . How awful . We are judged on our character, NOT on our skin colour. Well in 🇬🇧 we are . Americans have a very strange fascination with race . It’s crazy . Everything is about race . Guess what ? We ALL the Dan same , we all bleed red , all have lungs 🫁 and a heart ♥️ and a brain 🧠! Absolute madness

  • @April-201
    @April-2013 жыл бұрын

    This hurts my heart!

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    the covid vaxx does that literally, so you're not far off.

  • @Spirituallydevine916
    @Spirituallydevine9163 жыл бұрын

    They r doing it now.

  • @MichaelHeinz4
    @MichaelHeinz4 Жыл бұрын

    So much more to learn about what all has happened in all those dark years, decades, yes, centuries....!

  • @anaramirolopez9148
    @anaramirolopez91482 жыл бұрын

    very sad, I can not imagine how devastating and heartbreaking this was.

  • @ruthlesslife6154
    @ruthlesslife61543 жыл бұрын

    God is going to judge you guys.. It will be 10 time the amount, evil people..

  • @jailinecornejo3629

    @jailinecornejo3629

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen 🙏

  • @Music-gd4qn
    @Music-gd4qn4 жыл бұрын

    Black History in Two Minutes

  • @scribbledip53
    @scribbledip533 жыл бұрын

    I learned about this from a Dave Chapelle joke

  • @malindalewis5715
    @malindalewis57152 жыл бұрын

    They (all) will pay for their wrong doings! There will be (none) that will go unpunished!

  • @tanyalove1661
    @tanyalove16612 жыл бұрын

    Even though there's a bunch of information about this subject within this video, understand that there is more.

  • @noahmuggleston6309
    @noahmuggleston630911 ай бұрын

    It’s wild how I’ve just never heard of this.

  • @roaba2683
    @roaba26832 жыл бұрын

    Learn from history, this is why informed consent is important. Question everything!

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    do I smell a covid vaxx denier, hmmm? Safe and Effective, remember, sheeple!

  • @johnny96888
    @johnny968882 жыл бұрын

    and yet we should take their advice on covid recommendations. Someone please clarify this for me!

  • @zzzwy777

    @zzzwy777

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly , I will never trust governments and big pharmaceutical corporations.

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    of course not. Only if you're one of the sheeple and believe everything they say. It's so obvious even a fool could see it, if only they were not so dumb to believe the people in the white lab coats. hahaha.

  • @delmar418
    @delmar418 Жыл бұрын

    But it didn't stop. The study continued in Guatemala up until the eighties.

  • @lundelpeters2653
    @lundelpeters26535 ай бұрын

    Horrible injustice to humans, 😔

  • @erikjua4894
    @erikjua4894 Жыл бұрын

    They did the same in Guatemala 😢

  • @tiffanysouissi2051
    @tiffanysouissi20516 ай бұрын

    This is a horrible injustice to human beings. I hope God punished the ones who carried out this horrible act.

  • @jammelfosquez5394
    @jammelfosquez53947 ай бұрын

    This is shameful and horrible. I totally can understand any distrust of doctors. Even now in 2023 I can see how someone might not want any vaccines or any medical treatment that can potentially save their lives. Shame on the government.

  • @MR_MOB3x
    @MR_MOB3x10 ай бұрын

    Never saw this in any of my history books growing up

  • @TheeSecondSon
    @TheeSecondSon2 жыл бұрын

    Think about it, this wasn’t even 100 years ago….people from this time are still alive . Scary 😟.

  • @MrDiedaily
    @MrDiedaily3 жыл бұрын

    You're being treated for covid-19

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    exactly. eugenics is the name

  • @dirtydingoringo3121
    @dirtydingoringo3121 Жыл бұрын

    Just think of what they do today.

  • @lesabooth5243
    @lesabooth52432 жыл бұрын

    Who was the boy in the field in the beginning? Frank and Elenore Roosevelt were my favorites of all time.

  • @johnb.7369
    @johnb.73692 жыл бұрын

    This is like a flaming toaster oven to the heart

  • @Lucky4991
    @Lucky49912 жыл бұрын

    $10 million is not enough! Each person should have received 1 million

  • @joshable337

    @joshable337

    2 жыл бұрын

    I say 20 million each at least!

  • @RobAllbanks
    @RobAllbanks3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing this video with whats going on with this vaccine today, how some #reparations

  • @romacalor
    @romacalor3 жыл бұрын

    Bounced on my boys racial injustice for this for hours

  • @dannysimukoko6511
    @dannysimukoko6511 Жыл бұрын

    This sense of distrust will perpetually remain longer than we anticipate in the medical history....#BLACKLIVESMATTER!

  • @dilyb05
    @dilyb054 жыл бұрын

    😔😔

  • @OldMovieRob
    @OldMovieRob Жыл бұрын

    Learned about this from Fox Mulder

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    there's always some truth in predictive programming, after all. Otherwise it wouldn't work as well.

  • @Muunkee
    @Muunkee2 жыл бұрын

    The Twist is now they leave out their were injected with syphilis !

  • @oliverflorence539
    @oliverflorence539 Жыл бұрын

    Yup.

  • @torvlogs7390
    @torvlogs7390 Жыл бұрын

    I need clarification from someone that understands the facts. Were they infected with the syphilis disease by the healthcare team, yes or no?

  • @abelvalle6188

    @abelvalle6188

    3 ай бұрын

    Short answer.No. The scientists did not give the patients syphilis. I recommend the book Bad Blood by jones. The study started from a public health services attempt to treat the wide spread cases of syphilis in the rural South. Due to many issues (I believe funding and lack of progress since and the time the treatment involved mercury and wasn't very effective). From this one of the doctors wanted to try and get something useful from all the effort and essentially began observational study to determine the long term effects of syphilis on African Americans (to support the beliefs that syphilis affects blacks differently I want to say). This is a problem even as a study since all of the subject had already received some sort of treatment, especially since the men weren't idiots and could talk to eachother and find out if they were getting a treatment (meaning there were no controls for comparison as in an actual scientific experiment.). During the study Penicillin was discovered (syphilis is caused by sprockets bacteria treatable by the antibiotic) but it was not provided to the subjects. Additionally, someone had discovered the funny business and asked the cdc questions about the study but was completely ignored. Years later a journalist rediscovered the study and asked questions about it as well. The cdc ignored the journalist and it squashed the stories for acouple more years until the journalist forces the issue again and that's when it all blew up.

  • @ascensionqueen6075
    @ascensionqueen60752 жыл бұрын

    They track record LONG. Oh but GOD sits high and looks low. 🙏🏾

  • @jailinecornejo3629
    @jailinecornejo36293 жыл бұрын

    :( 💔

  • @deanbr1792
    @deanbr17922 жыл бұрын

    And they wonder why we won’t take that Covid shot.....Naw I’m good

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    smart one here! unlike most of the sheeple, alas.

  • @red-tailangelspitfire3075
    @red-tailangelspitfire30753 жыл бұрын

    nothing surprises me anymore.

  • @SusanShriverHowell
    @SusanShriverHowell Жыл бұрын

    We have so much history hidden.

  • @sanjayvaidya4925
    @sanjayvaidya4925 Жыл бұрын

    Preaching human rights to the globe.

  • @ramoddjob
    @ramoddjob Жыл бұрын

    Youre not supposed to be held liable for failing to act.

  • @user-vf6nn6hx9x

    @user-vf6nn6hx9x

    Ай бұрын

    "First do no harm" Hippocratic Oath and duty of care says otherwise.

  • @muthaafrika6137
    @muthaafrika6137 Жыл бұрын

    Deep down he ain't sorry

  • @icebox4476
    @icebox44763 жыл бұрын

    Thxs ad no jumper

  • @viciousd5190
    @viciousd51902 жыл бұрын

    Deep

  • @derickalfonso5103
    @derickalfonso5103 Жыл бұрын

    Now look at 2022 lmfao bruh........

  • @imgrant794
    @imgrant7942 жыл бұрын

    Kyrie Irving be like

  • @Grateful6395
    @Grateful6395Ай бұрын

    What else is new?

  • @TKO67
    @TKO673 жыл бұрын

    COVID 19

  • @pickelstylz2373
    @pickelstylz2373 Жыл бұрын

    speak up for your rights everyone in america they think they have us fooled✊🏽

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    they do, actually. The sheeple went to the slaughter once again with the covid jab. quod erat demonstrandum.

  • @deanbr1792
    @deanbr17922 жыл бұрын

    And KZread always turn comments off, F*%k the system

  • @ritalake
    @ritalake3 жыл бұрын

    Can you spell COVID?

  • @sixtacos

    @sixtacos

    3 жыл бұрын

    COVID?

  • @pankacks5368

    @pankacks5368

    3 жыл бұрын

    👀

  • @elizabethchelagat1596

    @elizabethchelagat1596

    3 жыл бұрын

    My thoughts 🤔

  • @joshable337

    @joshable337

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sixtacos it's an experiment on humanity. Get it?

  • @Teamnosl33p
    @Teamnosl33p2 жыл бұрын

    They still doin it 💉👀

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    yep. and the sheeple still fall for it.

  • @Buck_Bentley
    @Buck_Bentley8 ай бұрын

    LMAO!! Funniest Dave Chapel sketch ever!

  • @user-qk7lh4wl6e
    @user-qk7lh4wl6e2 жыл бұрын

    And in the picture it’s a black man testing on another black man.

  • @FHBStudio
    @FHBStudio8 ай бұрын

    For me this video only has dislikes? Any reason?

  • @Or5mr
    @Or5mr Жыл бұрын

    Sounds kinda familiar this in 2022... Why would it be?

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    I wonder, I wonder ;-)

  • @AdarianSmith
    @AdarianSmith2 жыл бұрын

    Damn.. sounds like the "covid vaccine "...

  • @jacobzaranyika9334
    @jacobzaranyika9334 Жыл бұрын

    "1984" in 2023.

  • @THEPLANETEARTH
    @THEPLANETEARTH3 жыл бұрын

    😐

  • @saltybildo9448
    @saltybildo94483 жыл бұрын

    FTG

  • @sunshinebreck
    @sunshinebreck2 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/ma5l0bOnj7bffLA.html Part 2.

  • @tybeentrill3748
    @tybeentrill374810 ай бұрын

    Once again Africans not being seen as human but as property

  • @extraolive2006

    @extraolive2006

    4 ай бұрын

    Right. By other African Americans at an African American college.

  • @user-vf6nn6hx9x

    @user-vf6nn6hx9x

    Ай бұрын

    The experiments were carried out by white doctors from government agencies and private institutions during Jim Crow. Even the college was duped

  • @user-vf6nn6hx9x

    @user-vf6nn6hx9x

    Ай бұрын

    Ws triggered af

  • @lekenollemoita9343
    @lekenollemoita93433 жыл бұрын

    Who's here from Dave Chappelle?😂

  • @TheComedyHistorian

    @TheComedyHistorian

    3 жыл бұрын

    When did Dave talk about the Tuskegee Experiment?

  • @joksimradovic4040
    @joksimradovic40402 жыл бұрын

    Great, let us all get vaccinacted.

  • @scififan698

    @scififan698

    Жыл бұрын

    hahaha, no thanks. it's the same thing, just a little bit variation. The sheeple on the other hand, they fall for it by the bush.

  • @johnf817
    @johnf8172 жыл бұрын

    These men were required to have late stage syphilis, of which there was no cure for until mid 1950s. This study started in 1932. There was no viable treatment for syphilis, and 30 percent of people in Tuskegee had it. The reason the study lasted 40 years was because the subjects lived long full lives, most of them with latent syphilis which is dormant and shows no symptoms. Even IF their organs began failing in their old age due to their syphilis, a 1950s course of penicillin would not have helped them. This program was started and ran by blacks, namely Eunice Rivers a black nurse, and progressive liberals the entire time. Even though they may be crazy leftists, they weren't locking up and torturing black men watching them die from bleeding sores as they take notes and watch. That did not happen. I would take a look at "Tuskegee re examined", an article from 2004 of which youtube has banned from posting a link to.

  • @trw4war322

    @trw4war322

    10 ай бұрын

    Not True.The cure for syphilis came out in 1943!

  • @user-vf6nn6hx9x

    @user-vf6nn6hx9x

    Ай бұрын

    Triggered ws defending evil