James Finn
Jan 30, 2024

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You know, one thing that strikes me about the history of the Tuskegee Experiments is it nobody ever talks about what happened to the depraved racist monsters who intentionally withheld the inexpensive syphilis cure from Black men.

Were any of them ever charged with a crime? Did any of them go to prison for murder? Did they even lose their jobs?

I don't think there was any accountability, even though their actions literally fit the definition of premeditated murder.

Are any of them still living? Is it too late to go after them, like we still go after elderly Nazis complicit in the Holocaust?

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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