The United States Government did something that was wrong deeply profoundly, morally, wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment of integrity and equality for all citizens clearly racist, President Clinton's apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the remaning survivors, May 16,1997.

For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S Public Health Service (PHS} conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the last stage of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of it's seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for "bad blood" their doctor's had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all.

The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopisies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenrate under the ravages of teritiary syphilis, which can include tumors, heart desease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. "As I see it" one of the doctor's involved explain, we have no further interest in these patients until they die"