A doctor took cancerous tissue from the uterus of a Black woman (Henrietta Lacks) w/o her consent. And scientists have used her cells and profited from it while her family (tricked & traumatised) have yet to be compensated.

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A Black doctor, Dr Charles Drew (also known as “the father of the blood bank”) was allowed to establish a blood donation initiative during the war, saving COUNTLESS lives... but wasn’t allowed to donate his “negro blood”.

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Prominent scientists in history (and most likely today) were avid eugenists, pushing the narrative that certain races are more superior to others. This has fueled white supremacy ideologies.

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Enslaved African-American women were operated on as practice models, to perfect a gynaecological prodecure intended for white women.

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As a scientist if you think politics, power dynamics and science don’t go hand in hand you are being wilfully ignorant. And your silence in the face of social injustice makes you just as guilty as the perpetrators.