Claiming that the U.S. govt deliberately injected blacks with syphilis is hardly provocative; it’s a lie.
Coming from a pastor, that’s pretty bad.
Racist conspiracy theories
Obama’s pastor is hardly the only person voicing such conspiracy theories. Among other prominent promoters:
* In 1991, Bill Cosby told The New York Post that AIDS “was started by human beings to get after certain people they don’t like.”
* Spike Lee told Rolling Stone in 1992, “I’m convinced AIDS is a government-engineered disease... [But] they never realized it couldn’t just be contained to the groups it was intended to wipe out.”
* In a 1998 interview in Rolling Stone, Will Smith said that he “felt that AIDS was created as a result of biological warfare testing. ... Someone was messing around in a laboratory, trying to find biological weapons, and created AIDS.”