Did The Government Manufacture AIDS and Make Drugs Available in Inner Cities to Attack Blacks?
A sizable number of people would agree with at least one of these accusations. In a 1990 poll, reported in the October 29, 1990 edition of The New York Times: Near one-third (29%) of black New Yorkers indicated belief that AIDS was “deliberately created in a laboratory in order to infect black people,” versus one in twenty (5%) among white New Yorkers. More than half (60%) of black New Yorkers indicated belief that government “deliberately” made drugs available to poor black people, versus a little more than one in ten (12%) among white New Yorkers. In another 1990 survey, reported in the November 2, 1995 edition of The Boston Globe: More than one-third (34%) of black churchgoers polled in five cities agreed “the AIDS virus was produced in a germ warfare laboratory.” The 1997 Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University nationwide poll discovered: More than half (52%) of Americans believe it is likely that the CIA allowed drug dealers from Central America to sell crack cocaine to Africa
