On Tuesday, our class discussion was very interesting talking about the Negro Project and the Tuskegee Experiment and the issues of race, gender and sexuality. I was very interested in this because I thought it was just about race.
When we started this discussion, I was going to say that it was race based, then Angela made the point that it just tested Black men and women were not included. After that Joyce said that it was because on men, Syphilis is more easy to spot on men than it is on women. This explains why gender is very important in this explanation. I believe race was such a crucial factor because of the time period. If it was later in time, I feel as though that black men would not have been exposed to such harsh treatment. Sexuality also played a major role in this experiment. Blacks (men and women) were seen as very sexual and always being sexually active. This is a reason why they are related to monkeys and animal like. They believe that black got Syphilis form being sexual.
All of these factors play into the ethics behind this experiment and why it was so wrong.
Leslie Walter
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