Posted on 06/25/2021 2:46:58 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
President Joe Biden on Thursday blamed vaccine hesitancy among black Americans on the past experimentation by the U.S. government on the Tuskegee Airman, conflating the famed World War II pilots with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
“The reason why it’s been harder to get African Americans, initially, to get vaccinated because they are used to being experimented on — the Tuskegee Airmen and others,” Biden said.
While originating in Tuskegee, Alabama, the Tuskegee Airman are famous for being the first group of African American fighter pilots to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps. First trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama in 1941, they would later go on to fly more than 15,000 individual sorties in Europe and North Africa during World War II. Altogether, the estimated number of participants ranged from 15,000 to 19,000, including pilots, mechanics, flight instructors, doctors, and more.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, on the other hand, was an experiment conducted by the U.S. government from 1932-1972 to “observe the progression of a number of diseases, particularly syphilis, untreated in black males.” More than 600 men agreed to participate in the study in exchange for meals, transportation, and health care....
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Hey no fair criticizing the intelligence of his voters! IQ tests are unfairly geared toward the living.
The emporer has no brain.
Here we go again...the race issue. Cannot we just be all people who need vaccinations?
Has the Main Stream Marxists media corrected. JoeK on this statement?, Just what I thought.
Said it yesterday, along with Latinx remark.
Well he confuses it because his brain is obviously affected by syphilis.
I met a Tuskegee airman. His son, a shooting acquaintance, brought him to an antique gun show and we met up. It was a major honor of my life.
The Germans KNEW that Old Shatterhand loved Mustangs...
Tuskegee Airmen, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, they all look pretty much the same to Joe.
If there were ever any doubt that this man is a sufferer of senile dementia, it should have ended long ago. This is a bit different, though. I don’t think Biden even knows much about either story: the history of the Tuskegee Airmen, or about the inhuman experiments on black individuals suffering from Syphilis, and the withholding of medical therapy.
He does not do his own homework. If some staffer did do it, they did not realize that Biden could not get it straight, or they gave up, facing the fact that no one can think for him. Joe just wanders mentally across a distorted illusionary mental landscape, all by himself. Biden is a mental basket case, and it is only going to get worse.
Wow. Karl May. I too know German literature.
Manchin is standing right behind Byrd.
“Look, mannnn, even white kids get syphilis. Go get shot!” - Joetato
The worst insult was the movie George Lucas made about them using every southern stereotype that exists. Terrible movie and a absolute insult as bad as Biden’s remarks.
Whole lot of conflatin going on out dare…
Somebody clap…
Let’s cut to the chase. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was not done without problems. But did the Medical Industry learn enough about syphilis to to find ways to fight it?
President Joe Biden on Thursday blamed vaccine hesitancy among black Americans on the past experimentation by the U.S. government\\
Hmmm,, just one of the reasons I’m hesitant also joe !
Let’s cut to the chase;
The prez of the United States should know the difference between a distinguished and historical military unit and the name of the study that black people cite as the source of their suspicion about medical advice from government.
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