Is is common among blacks to suspect that the government deliberately infected them with Aids?

Question

Obama's minister made an accusation of genocide. Do many blacks really suspect this to be true? Is their belief for real or is this another example of extreme paranoia of victimization?

Answer 1

I think youll find a large majority of african americans would think that accusation is crazy.

Answer 2

I was going to ignore this question since I doubt that you're being neutral. However, one person mentioned what I was thinking the first time I read this question ( which I'm sure is thinly veiled racism). If you think that Black people are so crazy, take some time away from Yahoo Answers and look up the Tuskegee Airmen. Then come back to us and tell us how squeaky clean the US government is.

Answer 3

There is truth in what they say. I think the infected men or women were not treated for the disease and watched like lab rats instead. I'm not sure as to whether this government had anything to do with infecting them with the Aids Virus. The same thing happened to them dealing with Syphilis.

Answer 4

I supposedly have heard that aids were transferrable from either monkeys or goats. And no..many black americans do not beileve in this myth. obamas minister is just hyped on himself to put his own congregation in a state of paranoia. Dont beilive it...

Answer 5

Sands means the Tuskegee EXPERIMENT.  It was nicely dramatized in a 1997 movie called "Miss Evers' Boys" with Alfre Woodard and Lawrence Fishburn.  

For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. They were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness.  The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death.

Is it "common" among Blacks or anyone else to think the Government might not have their best interests at heart?  Well, yeah.  

As for deliberate infection...I suspect malign neglect is closer to the truth.