Many black people's view of healthcare in America is already negative, https://theundefeated.com/features/new-poll-shows-black-amer... and negative experiences are often communicated first and second-hand.
Black americans are also more willing than other groups to believe in genocidal conspiracy theories,
There is an ongoing awareness of the Tuskegee experiment in the black community because in every group discussion (among just black people) of the covid vaccines I've observed someone will bring it up.
That said, I'd say it is just one piece of America's extensive history of race-targeted abuse that black Americans are hyper aware of and fuels belief in nonsense conpsiracies.
It does receive quite a lot of outsized attention in media like NPR and academia, to which the original article appears to be responding.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2569474/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16009745/
There is an ongoing awareness of the Tuskegee experiment in the black community because in every group discussion (among just black people) of the covid vaccines I've observed someone will bring it up.
That said, I'd say it is just one piece of America's extensive history of race-targeted abuse that black Americans are hyper aware of and fuels belief in nonsense conpsiracies.
It does receive quite a lot of outsized attention in media like NPR and academia, to which the original article appears to be responding.