History is replete with examples of White physicians brutalizing African Americans rather than healing them.
Tuskegee syphilis study
Stop blaming Tuskegee, critics say. It’s not an ‘excuse’ for current medical racism
‘It’s an excuse. If you continue to use it as a way of explaining why many African Americans are hesitant, it almost absolves you of having to … admit that racism is actually a thing today.’
