S5 E11: Black ‘guinea pigs’ in history: the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study

My African Cliches (English)

“The United States government did something that was wrong — deeply, profoundly, morally wrong, it was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. To the survivors, to the wives and family members, the children and the grandchildren, I say what you know: No power on Earth can give you back the lives lost, the pain suffered, the years of internal torment and anguish. What was done cannot be undone. But we can end the silence. We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you in the eye and finally say on behalf of the American people, what the United States government did was shameful, and I am sorry.” President Bill Clinton, issuing an apology, on May 16, 1997, to the eight remaining survivors of one of the biggest denial of humanity, one of the highest demonstration of racism, an unforgettable crime in the history of black people, that destroyed for long the trust that many African Americans held for medical institutions.

Hello and welcome onboard to revisit together the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.”