BLACK PERSECUTIONS
THE CHRISTIAN WAY
The following just touches little on what the Blacks have gone thru - taken from various places on the web. A simple web search on slaves will produce ship records of slave trades to North America, South America, & the West Indies.
Holocaust = a great or complete slaughter or reckless destruction of life. Millions of African lives have been lost to slavery, colonization & oppression. Muslim traders exported as many as 17 million slaves to the coast of the Indian Ocean, to the Middle East, & to North Africa. African slave exports via the Red Sea, trans-Sahara, & East Africa/Indian Ocean to other parts of the world between 1500-1900 totaled at least 5 million Africans sent into bondage. Between 1450 & 1850 at least 12 million Africans were shipped from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.
Slave women; - slavery was perpetuated through the status of the mother - not only was she enslaved for life, but so were her children. They were frequently the objects of aggressive sexual rapes from those who held power over them. The culture & economy of slavery imposed the role of "breeder" on these women & their ability to reproduce was equated with their worth as property to the masters.
1845-1849 J. Marion Sims, the "Father of Gynecology" in the United States, conducts gynecological experiments on slaves in South Carolina. Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives, especially the Black women & enslaved infants. According to his published articles, his procedures were only practiced on enslaved African babies & because he "owned" these poor, innocent children, he had free access to the bodies of the ones that died to use for autopsies, which he usually performed immediately after death.
At the time, African Americans were thought to be sub-human. Sims never felt the need to anesthetize his black patients in Montgomery, believing they couldn't feel pain like the Caucasians could. His support for anesthesia did not apply to slaves.
Dr Sims was the first physician to actually view the genitalia of his women patients. The morals of the time allowed a physician to palpate the area only. However, propriety went out the window when working on slave women. Experimental operations were without the aid of anaesthesia, most of his patients used for his experiments died nameless & faceless, many of them suffering for weeks before being relieved by death. The slave women of the time left no written record of their torture, since reading or writing was punishable by death if you were a Negro slave.
During the height of the lynching era 1880-1930 one black man per week was killed - died because of racism, bigotry & the color of their skin.
1930 United States of America - the typical lynching included taking body parts as souvenirs before & after death
In the United States, a black man is burned after being hung
American lynch picnic
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BARELY SCRATCHES THE SURFACE ON BLACK INJUSTICES
Interesting black persecution reading at http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
A fine example of why there was an American need for slaves is brushed upon in the following http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/kurt.mayer/Civilrights.htm.
1935 - The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency but failed to act since most of the deaths occurred within poverty-stricken black populations.
excerpts taken from http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html
President Clintons apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997
For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for bad blood, their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, & they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis - which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, & death. As I see it, one of the doctors involved explained, we have no further interest in these patients until they die.
The true nature of the experiment had to be kept from the subjects to ensure their cooperation. The sharecroppers grossly disadvantaged lot in life made them easy to manipulate. Pleased at the prospect of free medical care - almost none of them had ever seen a doctor before - these unsophisticated & trusting men became the pawns in what James Jones, author of the excellent history on the subject, Bad Blood, identified as the longest non-therapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.
When the experiment was brought to the attention of the media in 1972, news anchor Harry Reasoner described it as an experiment that used human beings as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone.
By the end of the experiment, 28 of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, & 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis. To ensure that the men would show up for a painful & potentially dangerous spinal tap, the PHS doctors misled them with a letter full of promotional hype: Last Chance for Special Free Treatment. The fact that autopsies would eventually be required was also concealed. As a doctor explained, If the colored population becomes aware that accepting free hospital care means a post-mortem, every darky will leave Macon County ... Even the Surgeon General of the United States participated in enticing the men to remain in the experiment, sending them certificates of appreciation after 25 years in the study.
It takes little imagination to ascribe racist attitudes to the white government officials who ran the experiment, but what can one make of the numerous African Americans who collaborated with them? The experiments name comes from the Tuskegee Institute, the black university founded by Booker T. Washington. Its affiliated hospital lent the PHS its medical facilities for the study, and other predominantly black institutions as well as local black doctors also participated. A black nurse, Eunice Rivers, was a central figure in the experiment for most of its forty years.
One of the most chilling aspects of the experiment was how zealously the PHS kept these men from receiving treatment. When several nationwide campaigns to eradicate venereal disease came to Macon County, the men were prevented from participating. Even when penicillin was discovered in the 1940s - the first real cure for syphilis - the Tuskegee men were deliberately denied the medication. During World War II, 250 of the men registered for the draft & were consequently ordered to get treatment for syphilis, only to have the PHS exempt them. Pleased at their success, the PHS representative announced: So far, we are keeping the known positive patients from getting treatment. The experiment continued in spite of the Henderson Act (1943), a public health law requiring testing and treatment for venereal disease, & in spite of the World Health Organizations Declaration of Helsinki (1964), which specified that informed consent was needed for experiment involving human beings.
The story finally broke in the Washington Star on July 25, 1972, in an article by Jean Heller of the Associated Press. Her source was Peter Buxtun, a former PHS venereal disease interviewer & one of the few whistle blowers over the years. The PHS, however, remained unrepentant, claiming the men had been volunteers & were always happy to see the doctors, & an Alabama state health officer who had been involved claimed somebody is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
In 1990, a survey found that 10 percent of African Americans believed that the U.S. government created AIDS as a plot to exterminate blacks, & another 20 percent could not rule out the possibility that this might be true. As preposterous and paranoid as this may sound, at one time the Tuskegee experiment must have seemed equally farfetched. Who could imagine the government, all the way up to the Surgeon General of the United States, deliberately allowing a group of its citizens to die from a terrible disease for the sake of an ill-conceived experiment? In light of this & many other shameful episodes in our history, African Americans widespread mistrust of the government & white society in general should not be a surprise to anyone. - BB
from http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/history/experiments.htm
- 1940 - Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg will cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust.
- 1990 - More than 1500 six-month old black and Hispanic babies in Los Angeles are given an "experimental" measles vaccine that had never been licensed for use in the United States. The Center for Disease Control later admits that parents were never informed that the vaccine being injected to their children was experimental.
also interesting reading http://www.rbs2.com/humres.htm
