Newsweek commentator Allison Samuels scours the landscape for some new exploitation and abuse of African Americans and uncovers evidence of cancer cell thievery. She seems to overlook the fact that it occurred in the course of free treatment of a dying patient and had no impact at all on their medical condition, but let's not get hung up on the details. The fact that most Americans of that generation had to sell the farm, pass the hat, or die when faced with a major medical problem is an inconvenient truth that would utterly ruin the drama of this story.
"In a just world, Henrietta Lacks's descendants would have health care given to them free for the rest of their lives, like the victims of the Tuskegee study. But instead her case stands as yet another example of the medical establishment's mistreatment of poor and minority Americans, the aftereffects of which linger to this day."
F*ck you, Allison. No institution in American society has bent over backwards to provide care to the indigent and the ungrateful as much as medicine has. We've passed laws as a society requiring them to. The only thing they have failed to treat with any success is the incurable sense of victimization and entitlement carried by people like you.