Who DId It To You... Roundtable Discussion with Dr James Jones....

Moor's Ford Lynching

More than 50 years after the death of two black couples who were mobbed, dragged, tied and shot 60 times by a group of white men nearly 60 miles from Atlanta, answers may finally be available. Monday, the 11th circuit of the United States Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that ordered the release of the grand jury transcripts. Judge Charles R. Wilson wrote that the “exceptional historical significance” that “the interest in disclosure outweighed the interest in continued secrecy.” The Moore’s Ford lynchings of Walton County, Ga. ignited nationwide outrage in 1946, forcing President Truman to order a federal investigation.

Race-Based Meds

The article "Race in a Bottle," by Jonathan Kahn, portrays the development of BiDil, the first "ethnic" drug. The controversy surrounding the medicine relates not only to scientific reasons for classifying the heart failure drug as medicine for African-Americans but to possible commercial motivations for seeking this designation. NitroMed, the company that makes BiDil, and the Association of Black Cardiologists, a group attempting to eliminate disparities in cardiovascular disease for African-Americans, have taken issue with one aspect of Kahn's critique—the use of race as a biological variable for assessing a drug's effectiveness.

Candice Owens

Reacting to a question about nationalism, Owens mentioned the Nazi leader, saying he was not a nationalist because he was “national socialist,” and if he “just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine.” However, she continued, the problem with the genocidal dictator was when he “wanted to globalize.”