Gaffe: Joe Biden Blames Black Vaccine Hesitancy on Tuskegee Airmen Training Program

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Gaffe: Joe Biden Blames Black Vaccine Hesitancy on Tuskegee Airmen Training Program

Charlie Spiering 26 May 2021

President Joe Biden mistakenly blamed the “Tuskegee airmen” training program for fueling black American hesitancy about the coronavirus vaccine.

“By the way, many of the older members of that community had memories of experimentation on black Americans that were not told about, like what happened, with the, you know, Tuskegee airmen and all those tests,” Biden said. “And so there was a great reluctance.”


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[Wingnut]

Give joe a break.  All black Tuskegions with the Phyllis look alike....

[Smokin Joe]

 

[catfish1957]

This would be funny if the future didn't look so dim.

[christian]

Those were the days of real racism and the democrats were the worst racists back then of racists. So as Biden says blacks can't trust due to what happened back then, (with racists democrats in control).  biden nearly got it, he just needed explaining it further.  Confession accepted Joe, just be a little more thorough, eh ?
 

[Sled Dog]

i  could actually accept that as an honest slip of the tongue, except the tongue was lubricated with the most massive voter fraud operation in history and is owned by a hair-sniffing senile traitor.

I can also understand the Rodents' desire to make all military veterans look evil.

And I can even understand the Rodents' desire to hide their history regarding illegal medical experiments and racist abortion policies they still promote.

[Sled Dog]

Those were the days of real racism and the democrats were the worst racists back then of racists. So as Biden says blacks can't trust due to what happened back then, (with racists democrats in control).  biden nearly got it, he just needed explaining it further.  Confession accepted Joe, just be a little more thorough, eh ?
 

They're the worst racists of the racists, today, too.

They haven't changed much since 1619 when the first black slave was owned by a black businessman.  (Whatever the real date is.)

[Right_in_Virginia]

Yes, he got part of it wrong, but the memory of Tuskegee is very much alive in the black community.  We shouldn't be surprised if this memory is infuencing vaccine decisions.

The U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

The U.S Public Health Service (USPHS) Syphilis Study at Tuskegeeexternal icon was a clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972. The study was intended to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis. As part of the study, researchers did not collect informed consent from participants and they did not offer treatment, even after it was widely available. The study endedexternal icon in 1972 on the recommendation of an Ad Hoc Advisory Panel, convened by the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, following publication of news articles about the study. In 1997, President Clinton issued a formal Presidential Apologyexternal icon, in which he announced an investment to establish what would become The National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee Universityexternal icon. Many records can be found in the National Archivesexternal icon.

https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/index.html

The Tuskegee Timeline   https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm