In 1990, 10% of black *believed* the AIDS-virus theory and another 20% thought it within the realm of possibility.

Sounds crazy? -- well, so did the Tuskegee Experiment, in which our Public Health Service, up to and including the Surgeon General, deliberately lied to and withheld treatment from 100s of black men, watching them die from (and infect their families with) syphllis so they could find out what the disease does to bodies. If you know, without doubt, that your government would do that .......
(The Infoplease write-up of the Tuskegee Experiment has information about the 1990 AIDS survey)

please google "Tuskegee Experiment" or better yet, here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_experiment

i've copy-pasted the gist for you below:

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The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male[1] also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Pelkola Syphilis Study, Public Health Service Syphilis Study or the Tuskegee Experiments was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, in which 399 (plus 201 control group without syphilis) poor — and mostly illiterate — African American sharecroppers were denied treatment for Syphilis.

This study became notorious because it was conducted without due care to its subjects, and led to major changes in how patients are protected in clinical studies. Individuals enrolled in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study did not give informed consent and were not informed of their diagnosis; instead they were told they had "bad blood" and could receive free medical treatment, rides to the clinic, meals and burial insurance in case of death in return for participating.[2]

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this is how certain people in the Black community find it remotely possible that AIDS could have been set up by the government as well -- after all the CDC was in full knowledge and support of the so-called experiment, a 40-year experience of human sadism and depravity befitting only Dr. Mengele and his Nazi war crimes.

I remember seeing Harriet Washington on C SPAN speak at the Pratt Library about the subject of medical experimentation on blacks in the United States. It sent a chill up my spine.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/31/RVGNGN44B91.DTL

First, do no harm (to whites)
Reviewed by Alexander Zaitchik

Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
By Harriet A. Washington

"If race is the haunted house of American history, Harriet Washington opens the door on the torture room in "Medical Apartheid," her blood-spattered history of black America's long and frequently nonconsensual relationship with experimental medicine."

I assume you're going to demand an apology from Obama, as well. He's the guy who has heard Wright preach for 20 years, and said he found what Wright said to be offensive. But I'm sure all of you have a much longer history with Wright.

Well, I have a much longer history with my Mormon family and the church I grew up in. Our church didn't allow blacks to hold full membership until 1978. Lots of less-than-palatable reasons offered from the pulpit for why that might've been. Oh well. They're good folks for the most part. Just a bit misguided and ignorant. Or maybe you're suggesting they ALL should walk? How many pews would be empty if all of us decided to walk the next time we heard anything offensive from the pulpit? Plenty. Maybe that'd be a good thing. But, in any case, maybe it's not as easy an option as you suggest.

Yes ,my grandmother and Bill Clinton too.

Come on, Bill Clinton's exposure was 20 secs. Can you say 20 years?

If Clinton had shuned Wright, can you imagine the out cry, and million man marches ,that Rev's Al and Jessie would have instigated??

I watched the video and then had my husband watch. He still found the rant of the "footnote" section incredibly hard to watch but after an interesting discussion considering what the rest of the sermon meant he understood the point Pastor Wright was making. He also saw a very different and thoughtful man so different from the video clip.

For those who wonder way Obama stayed at this church for 20 years I suggest you listen to the sermon in its entirety. Wright is a pastor who asks people to think, to contemplate deeper issues carefully. In this particular sermon Wright is asking his congregation to look deep into themselves after the terrible 9-11 attacks and consider what can happens when we are caught up in a revenge mode. There may be no choice but for America to counterattack but when we get so caught up in payback that we begin to believe it is ok to, as he quotes from the bible, dash the heads of our enemy's children upon a rock, then maybe we have lost our right to be ok with God. He asks his congregation to look deep into themselves and explore what revenge can trigger. This is a man who served in the Marines. He knows what happens in war not only to innocent victims but to the perpetrators themselves no matter how just the war.

Obama wrote this speach all by himself, and practiced, and practiced, and still how trouble reading from the tele-prompter, and is still trying to explain what he meant about his grandmother. If you watch closely, you see that he is starting to sound like G. Bush (trying to make a speach). Is he really after all just like us??

Is writing your own speech similar to a lawyer who has a fool for a client, or how ever the saying goes?

Trying to write my own stuff, difficult. It shows in a lot of other's comments as well .

Thank you kindly prw. I'm still using an old underwood typewriter, without the latest rev of mechanical spell checker installed.

some say speach, some say speech, or was that tomato or whatever.

With all due respect surely you could come up with a better comment. What about punctuation? How about a sentence diagram or two.

I'm sorry, maybe you are just an angry Obama supporter, clearly unthinking at this time. Don't blame you, if I was an Obama supported, I would be angry too, How about that pass port file?