Apr 6, 2020
“The United States government did something that was wrong —
deeply, profoundly, morally wrong, it was an outrage to our
commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. To the
survivors, to the wives and family members, the children and the
grandchildren, I say what you know: No power on Earth can give you
back the lives lost, the pain suffered, the years of internal
torment and anguish. What was done cannot be undone. But we can end
the silence. We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you
in the eye and finally say on behalf of the American people, what
the United States government did was shameful, and I am sorry.”
President Bill Clinton, issuing an apology, on May 16, 1997, to the
eight remaining survivors of one of the biggest denial of humanity,
one of the highest demonstration of racism, an unforgettable crime
in the history of black people, that destroyed for long the trust
that many African Americans held for medical institutions.
Hello and welcome onboard to revisit together the infamous Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.”