election, race, religion, etc.

A lot of the political discussions I've heard lately have consisted mainly of bashing Obama because of his pastor's comments.

I'd just like to point out that the minister's ideas about current racism and especially about the government inflicting AIDS on blacks might be wrong, but they certainly aren't unfounded suspicions.

I pasted the following from infoplease.com.

For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages 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 its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,”1 their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”

You can also check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Study_of_Untreated_Syphilis_in_the_Negro_Male
if you want to read more.