ficers returned to Tuskegee and converted the treatment program into a nontherapeutic human experiment (Jones 90). The goal of the progam now was to aquire as many autopsies as possible that will support the argument that people of African descent reacted differently to venereal diseases such as syphilis and that this disease in character was a black disease.Once the Tuskegee expiriment began it thrived from its own momentum. The intellectuals who were aware of the study did not reject to it. The black professionals affiliated with Tyskegee institute at the time the experiment was taking place did not object either. The question remains why did Black healtth professionals not challenge the study? The information concerning the details of the experimnet was not at all private; the disclosure of information concerning Tuskegee seemed very calculated. In fact they appeared in many of the major health and medical journals of the time period,places were the average person may not ordinarily look.However, Black health professionls like Dr. Paul B. Cornely of Howaed University,a black public health leader since the 1930s knew about Tuskegee but did not object. He understood the nature of the study and followed it closely, never questioning it. He explained in retrospect:I was there and I didnt say a word. I saw it as an academician. It shows youhow we looked at human beings, especially blacks who were expendable...I have guilt feeling about it, as I veiw it now...because I considered myself to be an activist. I used to get hot and bothered about injustices and inequality, yetright under my nose something is happening and Im blind (Smith 103).Many Black professionals hide behind the suppositions that what was occuring at Tuskegee Institute would draw much needed attention to the desolate social, economic, and medical environments of the Black community.There is no doubt that the history of racial subjugation, class-consciousness, and...
