This is just one of several unethical medical studies on African-Americans that has been documented. Also, racism negatively has impacted African-Americans' health. D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, an undisguised racist film, was recently rated by the American Film Institute as No. 44 of America's top 100 films. This movie depicted black people as subhuman creatures. Gangs, such as the Ku Klux Klan, unite because of racial hatred.
Violence is prevalent in America.
In the past two years alone, more Americans died from gunshot wounds than were killed during the entire Vietnam War. More than half also used an illegal drug on a monthly basis. The misperception immortalized daily by the media and other entities is that crimes are committed in poor neighborhoods inhabited by dark people. All African-Americans, regardless of their educational and economic accomplishments, have been and are at risk in America simply because of their skin colors. Sadly, my family and I experienced that to be one of America's racial truths.