Medical Apartheid
March 31, 2009 @ 6:25 am by NobleThis is a Democracy Now interview with Harriet Washington M.D. author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.”
Updated with some remarks below.
UPDATE: Polly made two wonderful comments and I want to highlight some of the points for those who can’t be bothered to read the whole thing.
- Such stupidity about the “differences” between blacks and whites by the medical establishment can not be simply boiled down to stupid racism, but a callous, conscious social program to perpetuate a permanent slave class with no rights.
- J. Marion Sims, the father of modern gynecology, did all of his medical experimentation on black slaves. He wanted to remove the jawbone of one slave (for a medical experiment) who did not consent, and so he tied the man down to a bar stool and performed the operation with no anesthesia. He learned many medical techniques experimenting on black slave women without anesthesia, which were later performed for profit on white women with anesthesia. He was later made president of the American Medical Association and a statue was built in his honor in Central Park.
- Prison inmates were a regular and steady source of medical experimentation subjects up to pretty much the present day. Some of the horrible medical experiments done for Big Pharma and the cosmetics industry are documented in the book “Acres of Skin” by Allen Hornblum.
- We eject people from the public arena for the most petty reasons (for example, the Howard Dean “scream”), and then we wonder why we’re run by a bunch of psychopaths.
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Comment by Polly
— March 31, 2009 @ 9:39 am
Saying blacks aren’t intelligent; that they don’t feel pain or that they’re resistant to some disease or another, is not an honest mistake of a Jurrasic mind. I see it as the perfect “excuse” to put people (ppl that the community doesn’t give a shit about) to work in the fields. Also, it affords them the opportunity to do medical experiments, just as certain wars have given opportunities to do the same (to the Jews). This is clear because they were testing shit on blacks that they wanted to use on whites. This means that their entire rational for treating them that way (that they were very different from us) is a lie. If they are so different, why would vaccine testing, for example, be of any use or import to whites?
If two individuals can mate and produce offspring with qualities of both, that means they are of the same species. Since a black person and a white person can mate and produce fertile offspring, they are of the same species. End of story.
I’m just beginning to see that these racist belief systems really weren’t what this is all about. O there’s racists, but those who were conducting all these horrible experiments, didn’t believe it for a second. They just saw an opportunity to use racism to procure humans to poke and prod. You know, to see what happens when you inject someone with antifreeze.
And the dr who held the black guy down, tied him to a bar stool, then operated on him to remove his jaw without anasthesia? He became the president of the AMA. That’s outrageous.
So much for the idea of a meritocracy. I don’t care what they tell you in school, you’re unlikely to attain success by merit (usually that gets you the hard work that no one else wants to do). More often, it’s by evil. Operation Paperclip, for example.
And using prisoners for experiments would be easy. Because inmates can’t vote. As you know, I disagree with anyone who says that inmates have (rightly) lost their right to vote. I think it’s wrong and unconstitutional, but this is the way it’s been. This is why prisons are black holes, these ppl have no voice. They can’t vote.
They have a hard time writing to the outside world to complain about their treatment by abusive personnel, because ALL mail—incoming and outgoing—is strictly censored. They black out anything they want to.
I tip my hat to this woman. She names names. Good for her. We need more ppl like her. Whistle blowers need our support.
Comment by Polly
— March 31, 2009 @ 10:05 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Marion_Sims
Sims has a statue in Central Park. He didn’t get that for all his hard work. Nor for his “genius” (proof of which I have yet to see). He’s no Einstein; he did horrible things to human beings.
So—in this so-called meritocracy that we’re supposed to live in, we actually build statues and memorials to torturers.
Ain’t america grand? (I can’t capitalize it anymore, it doesn’t deserve a capital letter.)
And in the end, how is this any different than Jeffrey Dahmer drilling a hole in someone’s head to try to make “slaves”?
I see no difference between Dahmer and Sims. Except that Sims has a monument in his honor in Central Park.
We.
are.
sick.
We say we want our leaders to treat us right, but we don’t vote for anyone who shows human emotion. We WANT, and specifically ASK FOR, psychopathic leaders. When Howard Dean got just a little TOO excited, and screamed, “YEAH!”, we mocked him and he was no longer viewed as presidential material.
Then we complain when we get psychopaths in charge.
Comment by Noble Lie
— April 4, 2009 @ 7:22 am
Your comments were so good I had to highlight them in the post. Thank you for your insight.