Thinking about Tuskegee...

From my perspective, the conversation about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study became much more popular last summer in the midst of coronavirus, the global pandemic, and health disparities.

So, of course, I noticed the spike.

And as I continued to hear more and more about it, I began to get a little bit irritated...

Not because I don't want to hear (or I guess it would be read in some cases for articles and such) about the Tuskegee Study.

But because I noticed that a lot of media outlets do a poor job of explaining its significance, its history, and it's almost used as a cheap way to check off a box so that you can add the buzz phrase "health disparities" to the title.

If you're going to discuss health disparities, especially with the example of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, then give us the rundown!

Not only are there enough sources to be able to explain what happened in the case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, but also there are endless other examples of how health disparities have negatively impacted the Black community. Some of them occurred decades ago, and some of them occurred two weeks ago.

So, of course, I thought: Let me show them how it's done.

Watch me explain myself in part 1 and part 2 of "Why we should stop talking about Tuskegee"