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Link Love : Your ‘conspiracy theory’ is my blood and flesh

08:51 H | Topics: Linking Latinos

I'm crazy behind this morning in my blogging pero go give a looksie over at All About Race and a recent post about how conspiracy theories about people of color and our children globally have been played as the guinea pigs of science all in the name of progress.

In the winter of 2004, a source first told me that the Federal government had sanctioned testing an AIDS vaccine on mostly black and Latino foster children ages1 month to late teens. I did not believe it. When finally convinced that it was true, I sobbed openly as we walked through the park. I had only the back of my hand to wipe my eyes and my nose, but I didn’t care. I was so enraged and so impotent. It was excruciating and useless to have this knowledge because I didn’t have enough of the story to go to a reporter and it would be almost impossible to prove anyway cloaked as it was in the “private records” of foster children.

I'm currently reading Andrea Smith's Conquest (a fuller review will come when I'm done) and it's heartbreaking and anger inducing, but it is also a call to action when you comprehend and digest how ethics get thrown out the window when it comes to the bodies and minds of people of color.

Check out the entire post here.

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