I went to the play on Thursday night and I'm so glad I did. Overall the play was great and it was a great message. The actors did a great job at performing, mastering their chacracter, and staying in role. It was nice to go to a function where talented African Americans were doing something good to get a message across. It was also great to see so many people support them. Whether they were there because they were forced or their to support I think we all learned something that night.
The play was about the unfortunate and unjust event that took place in 1932. The U.S. Public Health Service made an experiment called, "The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male." The experiment was done because they were trying to eliminate the whole race of African Americans. They thought that by giving black males syphilis it would eventually kill the black race. They told the participants of the study that they would provide them with free food, medical care, and burial expenses. They told them that they had "bad blood" and they were going to be cured. They used a nurse to recriute them who they called in the play Miss Ever's. Even though they eventually found they cure, they denied them it.
After reflecting on this play it just shows how poorly treated African Americans were and how eveil they were to us. They tried to act like they were helping us but they were really killing them off. This pllay puts the light on the veil done to African Americans and empasizes just one of the hardships we have faced.
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