Tribe.net. Local Connections Maglaurus http://blackmen.tribe.net/thread/919e337a-6542-4ff3-bc56-c1e6de1839bf#738a900c-5150-470e-9ba3-9c3003e21916 2008-10-13T23:45:13Z 2008-10-13T23:45:13Z

To Whom it May Concern, My name is Stephen Wall and I am a Ph.D. candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Department of Folklore. As part of a seminar project, I am studying stories, rumors, arguments, and legends associated with the U.S. government’s perpetration of harmful conspiracies against the greater African-American community. I am interested to know if members of this forum site are familiar with such conspiracies and how they came to know about them. It would benefit my work greatly if any members of this forum could volunteer answers to the following questions: Have you ever heard stories, rumors, arguments, or legends of the CIA, FBI, or other U.S. government agencies intentionally harming African-Americans in any way? Examples might include—but are certainly not limited to—plotting/committing assassinations, intentional neglect of vulnerable individuals or groups, or distributing illegal drugs or fatal diseases* in urban communities. If so, please describe these stories, rumors, arguments, or legends in as much detail as possible, including the setting in which they were told (i.e. between classes in high school, in the middle of a phone conversation, at the dinner-table with family, etc.). Who discussed these stories, rumors, arguments, or legends with you? Were the stories, etc. treated seriously by the teller(s) or were they mentioned jokingly? Upon hearing such stories, rumors, arguments, or legends, what emotional reaction did they elicit in you personally or in others hearing them at the same time as you? Do such stories, rumors, arguments, or legends impact your opinion of U.S. agencies or elements of the U.S. bureaucracy? If so, how? If not, why not? If you would like to attach age or gender information to your answers, please feel free. I would be happy to receive answers to these questions in the form of responses to my post, or as private messages within the forum’s system. Feel free to contact me through the private message system if you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts regarding my project; and please rest assured that I will withhold all personal information (i.e. usernames) from the final project write-up and subsequent discussion of what volunteers elect to share with me. *Please note that I do not consider the indisputable facts of the 1932-1972 “Tuskegee Syphilis Study” part of such stories, rumors, arguments, or legends. Rather, I think of this tragic and unethical miscarriage of public health administration as part of a foundation for debate of further intentional harm perpetrated against African-Americans by the U.S. government. Thank you for your time, Stephen E. Wall Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Folklore Memorial University, Newfoundland

Maglaurus 2008-10-13T23:45:13Z