Health
Tyler Perry Gets Covid-19 Vaccine on TV to Reassure Black Skeptics – The New York Times
The Madea creator and studio head talks about the history of the medical and government establishment’s exploitation of Black people.
On the BET special, Perry spoke of several infamous episodes in history that have led to a lack of faith in the medical establishment and the government, among them the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, in which doctors deliberately allowed syphilis to progress in Black men by withholding treatment from them, and the case of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951, whose cells were used in research without her knowledge or consent.
We as Black people have healthy hesitation when…
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