Abstract Tuberculosis has been one of the deadly diseases that have been wiping the greatest number of people in the world today. This disease has been known to be existence for very many years, and it is caused by a mycobacterium which can replicate within hours. Different ethnic groups around the world have been known to be prone to the disease than others. A good example is the African Americans. In this paper we shall discuss in details about tuberculosis and why the African Americans have been thinking of the disease and how different treatment options, cultural beliefs and values have been impacting on the transmission and treatment of the disease. Introduction Tuberculosis, which is abbreviated as TB for Tubercles Bacillus, is one of the common diseases and yet very infectious and deadly on human population. This kind of disease is caused by a bacterium known as mycobacteria, usually referred to as Mycobacterium tuberculosis in man. This kind of disease shall attack the human lungs and might progress to some other parts of the body. The pathogenic organisms causing the disease can be easily transmitted through the air; this means that, when an individual having the disease sneezes, spits or coughs, chances are quite high that he might infect others. Most of the infections occurred in humans are usually known to result in specific asymptomatic conditions, and after a number of months the infections would end up developing into an active tuberculosis disease. One thing about this kind of disease is that it would result in fifty percent deaths of the infected individuals (Blumberg & Jasmer, 2005). There have been a lot of disparities existing with tuberculosis and would show varied persistence in different members of a given racial or ethnic populations in different parts of the world. In the year 2007, the majority of all the cases of the disease that had been reported at 83 per cent were all from the racial minority groups. These included the African Americans, the non-Hispanic individuals, and the Asians. This means that the racial groups are more prone to the diseases, an indication that there are a number of factors that must be making the groups quite vulnerable to the disease. The overall proportion of the disease with the African Americans has been the greatest going by the previous statistics. In the same year, 2007, among all the individuals born in the United States, 45 per cent of the individuals suffering from tuberculosis had been noted to be African Americans, both black and the non-Hispanic. Although it is true that the rates of the disease in both the blacks and whites in the country have been declining for the last few years, the same kind of disparity still remains (Blumberg & Jasmer, 2005), and with the blacks being greatly recording new infections. Addressing this kind of TB disparity within the African Americans as compared with the whites is something that should be addressed with the greatest urgency. Useful Discussions Relating to Tuberculosis The primary causative agent of this kind of disease is Mycobacterium tuberculosis , which is a very small non-motile aerobic bacillus. Due to the presence of high lipid wall of the organism, the bacterium has many properties which make it extre