|NEWS| Meet The Woman That Infected 600 African American Men With Syphilis

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:04]Let's look at some information I know a lot of folks do not know about because I myself didn't and I know that some others are going to run from this information.

[00:00:13]So, we have the woman here by the name of Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie.

[00:00:21]It states that beginning in 1932, Rivers worked for the United States Public Health Service on the study of untreated syphilis in the Negro male in Macon County, Alabama.

[00:00:33]Properly known as Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, she recruited 600 African-American men with syphilis for the study and worked to keep them enrolled [music] as participants in the program. In exchange for their participation, the study offered participants free medical care, which Rivers provided. Rivers was the experiment's only consistent full-time staff member. [music] Although the study was initially planned to run only 6 months, over time the endeavor extended to a duration of 40 years. During the entire study, the participants were not informed that [music] the element they called, quote, bad blood was actually syphilis. When the study started, arsphenamine and neosalvarsan were [music] the only available treatments for syphilis and both compounds had dangerous side effects. However, even after the 1940s, when the discovery of penicillin offered a reliable and safe cure for the disease, study participants did not receive treatment. After the New York Times and Washington Post revealed that study participants had been allowed to suffer rather than receiving a known safe treatment, the Public Health Service ended it in 1972.

[00:01:46]Historians have offered a variety of interpretations for why Rivers continued her role in a project that by modern standards of medical ethics was completely unethical.

[00:01:58]Following the public disclosure in 1972 of the unethical practices associated with the Tuskegee studies, Rivers largely withdrew from public comment on the matter. Interpretations of her role in the study have since varied from support to condemnation. Some regarded her as a dedicated nurse who carried out her duties within the framework of the study continuing to provide care to participants. Other view her actions more critically suggesting that she used her education and position to maintain employment and favorable standings while contributing to the continued exploitation of the study subjects involved. Rivers played a central role in both recruiting and retaining participants in the study. In addition to her administrative responsibilities she provided participants with limited medical care and emotional support including listening to their concerns advising on non-hospital resources offering comfort and distributing basic treatments such as vitamins. She was instrumental in establishing the Miss Rivers Lodge a program that offered financial assistance for burial expenses to participants families in exchange for their continued involvement in the study. While the study occasionally facilitated access to care for conditions unrelated to syphilis it ultimately withheld effective treatment for the disease itself resulting in preventable deaths and lasting harm to the individuals involved and their communities.

[00:03:41]Let me tell y'all something right now.

[00:03:43]This is again, miss me with the whole what whatever people want to say. Yo, I ain't know none about this. This was not taught in school and I went to an all black Baptist school. This was This was not taught. Anytime that anybody's ever brought up the Tuskegee experiment, they never bring this part up where you got this black woman who specifically worked there full-time. She was the only person basically working on this, and she specifically got 600 black men. Not just that, but also made sure to keep them there so that this test trial that was supposed to be 6 months It shouldn't have happened in general. But, the test trial that was supposed to go on for 6 months lasted 40 years.

[00:04:23]She knocked out She helped to knock out generations.

[00:04:26]She's up there with Margaret Sanger.

[00:04:29]Can't nobody tell me nothing. Like I said before, like, "Yo, yo, for for a lot of y'all that don't like me sitting up there making videos and talking about stuff, hey, y'all numbers are in the rafters forever with this one. Woo! What?

[00:04:43]What? Six 600 black men. You know how many generations?

[00:04:49]You know how many generations ended up being affected by this that ended up not existing from this? You know how many black women got infected because of this black woman? Wow. It's crazy. It's crazy. Yo, let me tell y'all something.

[00:05:04]If If If a lot of these divestors and the ones that hate black men with a passion, if they want to look up to anybody, look no further. You don't got to look up to white women no more. You don't You don't got to look up to Margaret Sanger or nobody like that. You don't got to look up to Hillary Clinton and nothing like that. Look up to this woman here. She should be your A1. You better sit up there have a T-shirt. You better start making Twitter handles and profiles and YouTube handles and profiles and all of that.

[00:05:33]Like I said, this is wild.

[00:05:35]Do you Do you Cuz this is how crazy this is. Do y'all understand that if they stated that a black man single-handedly infected hundreds Let's Let's Let's just up the number. Hundreds of thousands, one black man infected a hundreds of thousands of women with multiple STDs or or whatnot or whatever that cannot be cured. Do you understand how people would make sure to bring that up every single time and every single argument whenever they have a a a negative sentiments or feelings about black men.

[00:06:08]Do you understand how that would be levied and used every single time in order to like, "Hey, this is what black man this is what black man sit up here and did." And we know that that would be the case. Don't sit up here and lie.

[00:06:19]Don't don't try to scapegoat. Don't try to move the goal post. We know it to be true. We know how this will work.

[00:06:25]We know how this will work.

[00:06:27]So, like I said, I'm looking directly at this and I'm like, "Ooh, that's crazy."

[00:06:32]That's wild.

[00:06:34]This woman knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the black men there were going to look at her and trust her because she is a black woman. She can talk to them. She They more than likely seen women in their families that look just like her that are reflective and they're like, "Yo, she's smart. You know, she went to school. She know what it is that she's talking about. I don't have no reason not to trust this black woman who medically knows what is going on behind the scenes with these white men."

[00:07:08]I don't have no reason not to trust her because she's going to look out for the best interest of me. If that black woman tells me that I got bad blood, that there is something wrong with me, I'm going to trust her because she is more educated. She went to college. She knows the medical. She knows the jargon. She knows how to read any and everything.

[00:07:29]She understands and she researched it.

[00:07:31]I'm going to trust her.

[00:07:35]And you see where those 600 black men decided to trust her. You see what that got them.

[00:07:45]You see what that got them.

[00:07:48]That's crazy.

[00:07:49]And she knew the truth the whole time.

[00:07:53]The whole time.

[00:07:56]The whole time.

[00:07:58]Somebody stated that the last survivor I think passed of the Tuskegee experiment passed I think in in in 2014 or 2017, something like that. Something recent.

[00:08:10]This woman passed in like the 1980s.

[00:08:15]And you mean to tell me that you [music] were around for that whole 40 years of the experiment basically going on and then because you didn't want to deal with the consequences, you didn't want to deal with what people were going to say, you decided to back out of the limelight.

[00:08:38]That's crazy.

[00:08:41]That's crazy That's Yo, that is that is 1,000% diabolical, dog.

[00:08:46]When I sit up there and tell y'all and and just to sit up there and When I sit up there and tell y'all, I have some slight tears just thinking about that.

[00:08:57]Because it's crazy to know that you got a a black woman that is so medically inclined that that is that is so smart that is intelligent that that that knows that she decided to trick 600 of her own men that look like her brothers, father, her uncle, grandfather, they look reflective of the men that she grew up with. She decided to get 600 black men who unknowingly signed up for something that was going to, you know, change their lives forever. And not just their lives, but generations.

[00:09:37]And she was a part of it. She was she was a fixture.

[00:09:41]Because I promise you more than likely the the the whole test still would have happened but they wouldn't have been able to get 600 black men as easily as they were able to do because a black woman was there. It would have been more difficult for them to do that and to also keep those black men there.

[00:09:59]This is what it looks like when you decide to you know trust your own people who are working as the left hand of those who have always been against you this whole time in this country.

[00:10:12]My condolences to those black men.

[00:10:17]And my condolences to the black women that were infected >> [music] >> because of this black woman.

[00:10:25]A lot of people like to sit up there and state that you know black men just go out there and do this and do that and all this other type of stuff but what a lot of people don't want to acknowledge and understand and pay attention to is the fact that you have black women that are behind things such as this.

[00:10:41]That are the causation for the hurt and the harm that happens to other black women directly out there.

[00:10:48]And their kids.

[00:10:50]But anyways, let me know what you guys think about this video and everything that I stated in the comment description below. And as always, peace, love, and stay tuned for the next video.