I decided to give this a thread of its own. Take a break from the porn and listen to this:
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Interview with the author of the book
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/jan/audio/dn20070119.ra&proto=rtsp&start=17:00
You can read the transcript here: You can read the transcript here: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1432231
Damn. You have to listen to that interview. Shit is very disturbing.
One thing that caught my ear:
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Harriet Washington, who has written the book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Can you talk about Holmesburg Prison? And I ask about this, because there's this latest news about a federal panel talking about loosening regulations around experimentation on prisoners. So, if you could address both...
HARRIET WASHINGTON: Sure. I’m actually going to start with the federal panel, which just a few months ago made a recommendation that prisons, which have been mostly closed to research since the 1970s, be reopened. This is a very bad decision, and although it's not legally binding, all indications are that the government is going to take this recommendation to reopen prisons. And the reason why this is a problem is, if you look at the history of research in prisons, it's been the site of the worst abuses, very troubled. There were experimental agents administered. Men were crippled, killed. There were mind-control experiments. And the worst thing about it is that the concept of consent in a prison is very problematic. The coercive nature of prison makes it very difficult for a prisoner to say no.
Our people are disproportionately housed in those prisons. Could they not simply infect Black men and women in prisons and release them back into the community to spread new diseases?
We've got to get our shit together. These people have never slowed down their efforts to solve what they consider the Black "problem" in this country.
A lot of us have gotten shit twisted because we can now live in the same neighorhood with whitey or marry his son or daughter.
They managed to depoliticize Black youth, the next threat to their power, while they continued their work toward neutralizing us.
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Interview with the author of the book
http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/2007/jan/audio/dn20070119.ra&proto=rtsp&start=17:00
You can read the transcript here: You can read the transcript here: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1432231
Damn. You have to listen to that interview. Shit is very disturbing.
One thing that caught my ear:
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Harriet Washington, who has written the book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Can you talk about Holmesburg Prison? And I ask about this, because there's this latest news about a federal panel talking about loosening regulations around experimentation on prisoners. So, if you could address both...
HARRIET WASHINGTON: Sure. I’m actually going to start with the federal panel, which just a few months ago made a recommendation that prisons, which have been mostly closed to research since the 1970s, be reopened. This is a very bad decision, and although it's not legally binding, all indications are that the government is going to take this recommendation to reopen prisons. And the reason why this is a problem is, if you look at the history of research in prisons, it's been the site of the worst abuses, very troubled. There were experimental agents administered. Men were crippled, killed. There were mind-control experiments. And the worst thing about it is that the concept of consent in a prison is very problematic. The coercive nature of prison makes it very difficult for a prisoner to say no.
Our people are disproportionately housed in those prisons. Could they not simply infect Black men and women in prisons and release them back into the community to spread new diseases?
We've got to get our shit together. These people have never slowed down their efforts to solve what they consider the Black "problem" in this country.
A lot of us have gotten shit twisted because we can now live in the same neighorhood with whitey or marry his son or daughter.
They managed to depoliticize Black youth, the next threat to their power, while they continued their work toward neutralizing us.
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