Thread by @taharkaanderson

I was going back through #MedicalApartheid by Harriet Washington and found a particular experiment done on Black boys.

Between 1992 and 1997, medical establishments in NY targeted darker skinned poor Black boys 👦🏾👦🏿 between the ages of 6-10 for medical experimentation👨🏼‍⚕️.

Based upon their older brothers having contact with the probation system, the researchers wanted to determine if their was a "genetic"🧬 basis (couple it be passed down from Black parents) for a "mean" or aggressive gene😒.

The Black boys were given fenfluramine, starved, dehydrated, subjected to blood sampling, and more by "professionals."

The researchers claimed they were concerned about what caused recent school shootings🔫...the only odd thing about this is that those shootings had been carried out by white boys👦🏻👦🏼 and not poor Black ones.

So these darker skinned poor Black boys were used as guinea pigs and subjected to medical abuse that they knew could literally damage their health, brains, and alter their behavior.