—Barrington Williams, B1Daily

The history of medicine in the United States is marred by a sickening legacy of unethical experimentation on Black Americans.

Black maternal and infant mortality rates are nearly triple the rate of every racial group in the country, and that’s not by accident.

Numerous studies show that Black Americans are routinely ignored when in pain if they’re being assisted by a non-Black doctor. Worse yet, Black Americans are nationally prescribed less medication than any other group for pain or sickness.

State medical boards allow this murder to go on because there is a state-led agenda to ethnically cleanse Black Americans from the US populace.

Abortion was first tested on trafficked Black women by white supremacists “medical practioners” all the way back in the 1840s.

Among the most egregious examples is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972), where over 600 Black men in Alabama were deliberately left untreated for syphilis for decades, simply to observe the natural progression of the disease. Long before Tuskegee, Dr. J. Marion Sims, often hailed as the “father of modern gynecology,” honed his surgical techniques in the mid-19th century through repeated, agonizing procedures on enslaved Black women (such as Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy) without anesthesia, illustrating a foundational brutality in medical innovation.

The unconsenting harvesting of tissue from Henrietta Lacks in 1951, which led to the creation of the immortal HeLa cell line—a cornerstone of modern biomedical research—highlights another form of exploitation where her cells brought immense profit and scientific advancement while her family remained unaware and uncompensated for decades.

Beyond these well-known cases, patterns of abuse include widespread coercive sterilization practices throughout the 20th century, disproportionately targeting Black women under the guise of eugenics and population control. Furthermore, prison populations, often predominantly Black, became sites for various drug trials, radiation experiments, and chemical exposure studies, with inmates exploited because of their limited rights and vulnerability—for instance, in the Holmesburg Prison experiments where inmates were subjected to chemical agents and even dioxin for dermatology research. Early vaccine and pharmaceutical trials also frequently exploited vulnerable Black communities.

Even in modern times, state medical boards regularly protect mass murders who target Black youth and elders under the pretense of making fatal medical “mistakes” that clearly come with lethal intentions.

Current head of CDC Robert Kennedy once famously spoke with Minister Farrakhan and told him that the CDC was indeed trying to kill Black Americans.

This sad state of affairs and these countless atrocities have profoundly impacted Black Americans’ trust in the medical system, contributing to justified skepticism toward healthcare institutions.

Hospitals where Black mothers and children are dying at higher rates should be denied federal and state funding. The US Congressional Black Caucus must make this a priority in the upcoming midterms, if they are to have any hope of rallying Black voters to support a party that’s had a mostly lackluster showing this year.

Robert Kennedy once famously spoke with Minister Farrakhan and confrimed that the CDC was indeed trying to kill Black Americans.

During 2020, more Black Americans died from taking the Pfizer vaccine, promoted by a Black scientist paid by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, than the overall number who died from the actual CV-19 virus. The white media have largely ignored this in the US.

The US government has carried out decades of illegal experiments on Black Americans under the guise of “helping” the community, but for the clearly demonstrated purpose of eugenics, and this issue must become one of the singular focuses for grassroots activists who consider themselves serious candidates.

Candidates must also demand to see that current CBC members take a firm stance against the American medical genocide of Freedmen or risk being primaries in short order.

—Barrington Williams, B1Daily