After the reading on the topic Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis study, by Allan M. Brandt I was completely terrified by the facts that were mentioned in the text. I so surprised that the most horrific analyses were coming from people who had the highest level of education behind their shoulders.
             According to the way I understood the reading African people were considered almost an animals or 'primitive people that could not be assimilated into complex, white civilization'. African people were considered the lowest creation primarily because their skin tone was slightly different from others. At the end of the reading it was mentioned that there would have been no difference if Caucasian people participated in the experiment, they would have been treated in the same way. How could they say that there was no racial side to that experiment? I am sure that if Caucasian people had syphilis they would not be just an experiment, they would most likely be really treated from that venereal disease. They would not be given any noneffective drugs that will make them think that it is the drug that will treat their 'bad blood'.
             I believe that scientists decided to experiment on black people not because the 'infection happened to be in black community' but because they thought that black population will deteriorate anyways. I cannot believe that trusting African people were like lab rats for those doctors who used African people's lack of knowledge about syphilis at their advantage. Although we preach equality among man, in the past and for the years to come, it is obvious that there will always be an invisible barrier separating people with different racial backgrounds. Unless if we all initially willing to unite and look through our skin color and find out that there is no difference between all of us.
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