Welcome to Alabama, everyone. Before you listen to this week's episode. I just want to thank everyone for listening in as Celina and I share these stories. We are now half way through the country and while we share a lot about tragedy, there always seems to be resilience with the families we talk about. This week however Celina shares about something so horrible I almost didn't have words. Every time I hear about another way that our country mistreats its citizens especially in the black community, it just brings more light on why we say BLACK LIVES MATTER!!! When people try and draw attention away from that it makes me so angry. We have shared a number of stories on this podcast on how black people are treated in America and this week Celina is sharing another part of our history that I had never even heard of. I think it is amazing that when we hear the name Tuskegee, we associate it with the brave black men that put their lives on the line, in World War II. Fighting against Nazi Germany. Now if you are reading this I want you to read up on the rise of Hitler in the 1930s and how Nazi Germany was formed and see if you see any parallels in Trump and the rise of what I am stating is the forming of a Nazi America. Please lets not let what the Tuskegee Airmen put their lives on the line to defeat, start forming here in the United States. History can and does repeat itself and we want to make sure that doesn't happen. To do that we need everyone to vote!!!
Amber's story:
When a truck driver came across the body of a young woman on the side of the road. Police had a mystery on their hands as she had no identification on her, she had been shot multiple times and she was found with her pants around her ankles. When the very next day after the body was discovered, the concerned parents of Shea Graham called the police department to report their daughter was missing. The police realized that they were able to connect Shea's finger prints to the body they had found. Now that Jane Doe had a name they needed to find her killer. It wasn't very hard to do as her friends had witnessed her leaving with Kenneth Walton, who had recently been fired from Shae's dad's construction company. His story however was not what anyone expected.
Amber's resources:
https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2017/08/08/monsters-among-us-lisa-graham-hired-a-hitman-to-kill-her-20-year-old-daughter-stephanie-shea-graham-sentenced-to-death/ https://www.leagle.com/decision/inalco20190712021
Snapped: Season 20 episode 10
Celina's story:
Celina's story this week has sadly put a rock in my stomach that hasn't gone away. I know that modern gynecology was pioneered by James Marion Sims. He practiced surgical techniques on enslaved black women. He didn't give them any pain medication or give them anesthesia, believing that they didn't feel pain like white people did. Totally disgusting and also there are statue of him put up. However that isn't the story Celina shares, this week she is focusing on the Tuskegee experiments. Where for 40 years they had black men in Tuskegee in a medical trial to see if the effects of syphilis were different on black people than white people. They didn't share with these men that they had syphilis and they often went untreated. This is so horrible and the fact that it was going on until 1972 is crazy.
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