IT’S MORE A FETISH THAN A SUPERSTITION, REALLY:

The Tuskegee outrage was real. But the notion that the Tuskegee experiment–which began in the Jim Crow era (1932) and ended in 1972, eight years after the Civil Rights Act became law–reflects the attitudes of American governmental and medical institutions today is an urban legend, a superstition–and potentially a deadly one.

The Times’s account suggests that girls in Chicago were denied potentially lifesaving vaccinations because Michelle Obama pandered to racial paranoia instead of standing up for the truth. Is that why they pay her the big bucks?

Don’t be silly. They pay her the big bucks because she’s married to a Senator.