AIDS is quite possibly one of the most horrific developments
this past century. Millions of dollars are being
poured into research and yet a cure still seems all but
completely elusive. Gone are the days of carefree sex ’n’
drugs ’n’ rock ’n’ roll, as the deadly virus does not seem to
be at all choosy in who it targets.
Shocking as the whole phenomenon would be if this really
was a natural plague, theory has it that the AIDS virus
was in fact artificially manufactured by the U.S. government
to kill African-Americans and this is being taken
very seriously by the black community. Rumors are being
circulated that the disease was developed to kill off the socalled
“useless eaters” of the human race—blacks, homosexuals
and drug users to be more precise. The Minister of
Health for Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, Dr. Abdul
Alim Muhammed, has called for a formal investigation. In
his words:
“We know from the Congressional Report that money
was appropriated for the creation of artificial biological
agents to defeat the human immune system. This took
place in July of 1969. Ten million dollars was allocated to the U.S. army. So . . . let there be hearings to uncover the
files.”
Many African-Americans quote this experiment, which
took place at Tuskegee as grounds for skepticism about the
government’s intentions. From 1932 to 1972 about four
hundred poor black men were used as guinea pigs as scientists
studied the effects of syphilis left untreated. And
what’s more, as Thomas Blocker, Director of Health Professions
at Morehouse College says: “A number of people
have the idea that the re’s always the possibility that people
who are disadvantaged may be used as guinea pigs in terms
of medicine.”