In his book, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, James H. Jones argues in chapter 14 “AIDS: Is It Genocide?” that “No scientific experiment inflicted more damage on the collective psyche of black Americans than the Tuskegee Study.” Jones goes on to explain how when the forty year experiment was revealed and later an AIDS epidemic occurred the black community in America were suspicious of AIDS being a repeat of the past. In this chapter Jones goes on to explain how AIDS was disproportionately affecting the black community and how that led some to believe that AIDS may have been created as a way to eradicate blacks in America. What stood out to me the most was when Jones discusses an article in the American Journal of Public Health
