Targeting Women and Men. Eugenics and Identity. Ethics and Morality. Know the Past, the Present, for a Better the Future. April 2026

Know history.
 

In the 1900’s.  Is it still present in 2026. 

 

Are we going backwards in time but more with a global perspective

“Challenge it the best way you can.”

EUGENICS.  Black and Native American Women

BLACK WOMEN https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUDI4c4CdlW/?igsh=OWFkeGs1MGgxdXZx    THE MISSISSIPPI APPENDECTOMY  “The Silient War on Black Women” They went to the hospital for care. They left unable to have children. From the 1920s to the 1970s, thousands of Black women across the United States were secretly sterilized under government-approved programs. Doctors called it treatment. The government called it policy. Communities called it the Mississippi Appendectomy. Generations were erased quietly   Native American Tribes Even up to 2019.         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f91AKH_x__U   Eugenics against Native Americans in the 20th-century U.S. involved forced and coerced sterilizations, targeting up to 25–50% of Native women between 1970 and 1976. Driven by racist ideologies that viewed Indigenous people as "unfit" or "inferior," these programs were executed by the Indian Health Service (IHS), frequently targeting minors or using deception.   Forced Sterilization (1970s): A 1976 Government Accounting Office (GAO) investigation found 3,406 sterilizations of Native women by the IHS between 1973 and 1976, though many cases went unreported. Many women were sterilized without consent, under sedation, or under threat of losing children

 

 

 

TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT

In 1997, President Clinton issued a formal Presidential Apology. In his apology he announced an investment to establish what became The National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. Many records can be found in the National Archives   The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis as well as a control group without.   https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9422551/   Abstract Purpose: The participation of minorities in clinical studies is the subject of much discussion and has even become the subject of Federal law. The project known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and officially titled "The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," is one of the great debacles of American medicine and a national shame. Despite the fact that its existence is well known, many do not know the historical facts of the study nor the context of the study. My purpose here is to recount the facts of the study and its historical context.

 

 

Identity: 

      Not just Black American’s BUT OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS (Latino, Caribbean, American Indigenous Tribes, and more.

 

                             “..the system had gotten into his head.”

 

In 1968, NET — the National Educational Television network, which later became PBS — produced a documentary called "Still a Brother - Inside the Negro Middle Class".   The film explored a part of Black America that rarely made headlines: Black professionals, educators, and families who had achieved a degree of economic stability in a country that was simultaneously burning down around them. MLK had just been assassinated. Cities were in uprising. And the civil rights movement was fracturing along lines of class, strategy, and identity.   This clip captures one of the most honest moments in the entire film — a Black middle class man sitting in front of a camera in 1968 and admitting, out loud, that the system had gotten inside his head. That he had spent most of his life distancing himself from working class Black people, and measuring his own worth through a white middle class lens — without ever fully realizing it.