Copyright © 2009 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center for non-profit editorial use
Here are some of Harriet Washington’s words from an interview she did in 2007 with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! The Medical scholar and author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” commented on medical experiments done on Black children in the 1990s with “behavior problems”.
HARRIET WASHINGTON: Right, who are alleged to have behavior problems, yeah. And also on Black boys, specifically, who they think might have a genetic predisposition to violence.
But there’s no rationale for only looking at Black boys.
If you’re looking at predisposition for violence, you should be looking at all boys, and most American boys, of course, are white.
But it’s black boys who have been singled out for these very dangerous experiments, such as a fenfluramine experiment that took place right here in New York City between 1992 and 1997.
JUAN GONZALEZ: What was that about?
HARRIET WASHINGTON: Oh, they took, let’s see, from 110 to 36 Black boys and gave them fenfluramine, which is half of that Phen-Fen drug that was taken off the market, because it was cardiotoxic, caused heart problems.
They gave it to these boys in an attempt to see whether they would show some inclination toward violence. And they found the boys, because the boys were the younger brothers of children already in the juvenile justice system, so that was coercive in itself.
They used the juvenile justice system to identify boys. And again, the protocol, which I read, only indicates black boys are eligible. White boys were not eligible. ~democracynow.org
Here’s part 1 of the interview with Harriet where she explains most of the scientific advances in gynecology where made by experimenting on enslaved Black women.
To read the entire interview click on democracynow.org
Related posts:
- BHM QUOTE: GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER OF COURSE “It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither...
- BHM QUOTE: LISA JACKSON, HEAD OF THE EPA, ON BLACK PEOPLE GOING GREEN EPA Administrator Lisa P.Jackson addresses the Brownfields2009 Conference in New...
- BHM QUOTE: CARTER G. WOODSON FOUNDER OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH “[Woodson] literally made this country, which has only the slightest...
- BHM QUOTE: MAJORA CARTER ON GREENING THE GHETTO “I believe that you shouldn’t have to leave your neighborhood...
- BHM QUOTE: MICHAEL JACKSON ON THE ENVIRONMENT The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed...
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
February 16th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
i saw this interview with her in 07, i finally bought the book last year. i say that to say if i read it i’d have something interesting to say about this now.
February 16th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Hilarious! My hope was that reading this quote alone could give some info and maybe spark interest in further reading on the subject, lol I appreciate your comment natTurnerJr!
[WORDPRESS HASHCASH] The poster sent us ’0 which is not a hashcash value.