I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children,

on some idealism which you assure me

exists in America, which I have never seen.

Welcome back to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge

white people about black history.

I'm Brad, and on today's show, I show on my co-host Katina and Aaron.

Today's topic is the Tuskegee Syphilis study. We first addressed some common misnomer

regarding this study, discuss a little bit about what syphilis is, talk about how the study got

started and the initial beginnings of it, some of the deceptive practices that took place during it, and then we slowly

get into the unraveling of the study. This is part one of two episodes, so make sure that after

you're done with this, you go and listen to part two. We hope you enjoy the discussion.

Okay, so I just found out right before we hit the record button here that we're going to be talking about the Tuskegee Syphalus study.

And I had told Garen and Katina, Katina, laughed at me because all I had ever heard of was the Tuskegee Airmen.

And then you guys told me that there was no correlation between the two, or at least not.

Yes, I'll laugh at you.

So let's talk about what this is, because is this a study? Is it a place? Is Tuskegee a place?

What's, let's, let's dive in. So that's actually the first thing I need to address is that the name of the study is a misnomer.

That we call it, and it is commonly come to be known as

the Tuskegee Siphilis study, which puts the blame on Tuskegee Institute for what happened,

which Tuskegee is a black institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington and trained black

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