Phil Robertson once said, "I think our problem is a spiritual one. Where there is no Jesus, evil always reigns." This is true about our world that is ruled with much hate and evil that it surrounds us. In this quote Robertson outlines how there is no good intentions in people anymore, because people always try to hurt one another in this world. This quote can be applied to many infamous tests that white doctors have done to black patients in the 1950 's. Many blacks during that time were used as test subjects for terrible experiments that ended with tragic deaths. Using blacks as test subjects was immorally wrong and inhuman because they were using humans as test subjects just so they could see how they would respond to a dieses that was injected into them. These were tests that were done in the past which many people say that it would not happen again and that blacks who go to checkups would not be abused of their rights. However, today there is still many mistreatment and racial bias done by white medical staff towards black patients. In today’s society mistreatment of black patients by white doctors is still a problem that is still going on today and must be stopped. To begin with, white doctors would use blacks as test subjects back in the 1950 's because they thought that blacks were durable testing subjects.
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To explain, back in the 1950 's blacks were tested on by scientists in many experiments that were very common back then. In fact, those experiments that were being conducted on the blacks were illegal and some government officials pretended that they did not know about these experiments. There was one experiment that doctors tested on blacks it was known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study some experts thought that these tests were inhuman just like Harriet A. Washington says, "the long, unhappy history of medical research with black Americans" (Grady). What Harriet was trying to say was that the Tuskegee syphilis study was one of worst and longest tests done to black Americans. In this test doctors would infect 400 black male patients without them knowing, with the syphilis disease in the year 1932. They were left untreated for 40 years just "so government doctors could study the course of the disease" (Grady). This is just one of many experiments conducted on black Americans back in the early 1900 's and the late 1800 's. Also, in addition most doctors would use blacks as their test subjects because of racial inequality back then. Right after the blacks were freed from slavery they were mistreated and were not given certain freedoms in the South. Doctors knew that doing illegal experiments on black Americans would not cause much attention in the media and people would not care because of the times that they lived. That is why some doctors took advantage over this situation and used black Americans as there test subjects. In fact, that is why the doctors who were part of the Syphilis Studies were able to get away with the experiment, because nobody cared for blacks then. By the time the Civil Rights movement was over the Syphilis Test was still going on until 1972 when a reporter told the media what was happening. “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.”” (Infoplease). Moreover, some doctors would sometimes pick black Americans as there test subjects because of their intellectual level. This just means that most blacks that lived in the South were very poor and some of them could not afford to finish school or even start it. Therefore, when many blacks visited the doctor 's they never asked many questions on what they were doing to them because they knew that the doctors knew what was best for them. This would then allow many doctors do whatever they want to their patients because they never asked what was being done to them. In fact, this
To explain, back in the 1950 's blacks were tested on by scientists in many experiments that were very common back then. In fact, those experiments that were being conducted on the blacks were illegal and some government officials pretended that they did not know about these experiments. There was one experiment that doctors tested on blacks it was known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study some experts thought that these tests were inhuman just like Harriet A. Washington says, "the long, unhappy history of medical research with black Americans" (Grady). What Harriet was trying to say was that the Tuskegee syphilis study was one of worst and longest tests done to black Americans. In this test doctors would infect 400 black male patients without them knowing, with the syphilis disease in the year 1932. They were left untreated for 40 years just "so government doctors could study the course of the disease" (Grady). This is just one of many experiments conducted on black Americans back in the early 1900 's and the late 1800 's. Also, in addition most doctors would use blacks as their test subjects because of racial inequality back then. Right after the blacks were freed from slavery they were mistreated and were not given certain freedoms in the South. Doctors knew that doing illegal experiments on black Americans would not cause much attention in the media and people would not care because of the times that they lived. That is why some doctors took advantage over this situation and used black Americans as there test subjects. In fact, that is why the doctors who were part of the Syphilis Studies were able to get away with the experiment, because nobody cared for blacks then. By the time the Civil Rights movement was over the Syphilis Test was still going on until 1972 when a reporter told the media what was happening. “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.”” (Infoplease). Moreover, some doctors would sometimes pick black Americans as there test subjects because of their intellectual level. This just means that most blacks that lived in the South were very poor and some of them could not afford to finish school or even start it. Therefore, when many blacks visited the doctor 's they never asked many questions on what they were doing to them because they knew that the doctors knew what was best for them. This would then allow many doctors do whatever they want to their patients because they never asked what was being done to them. In fact, this