Tuskegee Experiment

Regarding the letter by April Ward (5/15): There is no need to embellish the horrible treatment of the patients involved in the Tuskegee Experiment.

While there is no doubt that treatment was denied them, there is also no doubt that when the experiments began, the usual treatments were often toxic and unsuccessful. They were not infected with syphilis for 40 years as Ward and others claim. It is these kind of bogeyman theories that perpetuate the ill will and black victimology that is so obvious in Rev Jeremiah Wright’s vitriol.

So, yes, it is very far-fetched to believe the government created the AIDS virus to kill black people or any of the other crazy, kooky, absurd, paranoid delusions the Rev. Wright has preached about.

Barack Obama has clearly stated he doesn’t agree with the Rev. Wright on these subjects, and I, for one, will take him at his word.

I would like to hear less about the Rev. Wright and more about policies, plans and proposals.

Brian K. Kegerreis
Overland Park

Comments

[jack]

A campaign based on policies, plans and proposals? What kind of God hating liberal are you?

Dream on, Mr Kegerreis, if the Reps have anything to say about it this election will be a repeat of the last, nothing but fear and smear and vague promises.