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Wright's accusations about AIDS
Kamiya's claim that Wright's "assertion that the U.S. government spread AIDS in the black population is a caricature of paranoid black demagoguery" indicates that Kamiya is unfamiliar with the notorious Tuskegee sylphilis experiments in which 399 black men infected with sylphilis were left untreated for forty years so doctors could observe the course of the disease. Most of his article is right on the money, but it's arguable that blacks have good reason to be suspicious in this areas as well as in others.
Here's a link about the experiments: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html.