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Black genocide in the United States refers to the systematic eradication of innocent blacks based on the gruesome and unpleasant institutions created by whites during the era of slavery. Black genocide has mostly been around since the Post Reconstruction era of the United States. With the fall of the South after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, tension between blacks and whites in the South grew evermore vehemently. Whites wanted to make sure the institutions they created for blacks would continue to survive as well as keep them in their "place." As a result, many forms of genocide was and continues to be used as a scare tactic as well as a tool to eradicate blacks in the United States. They include: lynching, compulsory sterilization, and the “pill,” police brutality, abortion, prison, Vietnam, as well as the problems vaccinations pose for the black community (i.e. Human Papillomavirus(HPV) vaccinations). With these forms of black genocide occurring in the United States, many black movements and organizations have been established to stop them such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)and the Civil Rights Movement for example. The most recent of these movements is the Black Lives Matter Movement. This movement is working towards a “world where Black lives are no longer systematically and intentionally targeted for demise" Like this movement and others as well as current black organizations, they exist to protect the lives of the black community and make sure their well-being is protected.

Lynching

Lynching has been around before slavery was brought to the United States and a common practice at the time; however, during post reconstruction (1880’s-1950’s) of the United States lynching was used by whites as a strategy to keep blacks from rising to prominence in American society. Over the course of this time many blacks were innocently killed for crimes they had not committed without a trial or "crimes" that were not even illegal in the United States. These "crimes" include: felonious assault, rape, theft, insulting a white person, disputing with a white man, attempting to register to vote, unpopularity, self-defense, testifying against a white man, asking a white woman in marriage, peeping in a window, or sometimes no crime at all. What is even more absurd than the reasons why whites across the United States lynched blacks, but the amount of blacks that were lynched from the 1880’s to the 1950’s as well as how lynches were carried out. It is estimated that about 3,437 blacks were lynched by being hung, shot, maimed, burned, castrated, or a combination of all of the above mentioned. Whites in the United States, particularly in the South, were intimidated by the advancement of blacks in the United States. Blacks were becoming more active in American society by being political activist, running for political positions, registering to vote, forming labor unions, and establishing businesses. Lynching was a way for whites to maintain white supremacy and maintain control politically, socially, and economically. With the mobilization of the Civil Rights Movement, the urbanization of small rural towns in the United States, and the enactment of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill lynchings began to decrease substantially. In the 1930’s and 40’s, lynching’s plummeted to about ten and three separately and became even rarer, but not unheard of, in the 50’s for blacks to be lynched. Fast-forwarding to the twenty-first century, one can still see remnants of lynching in American society today of innocent blacks. There are several cases where the murder of blacks have similar characteristics to the lynchings of the post reconstruction era. For example Brandon McClelland was ran over and dragged 70 feet to his death by two white men after an altercation in Paris, Texas of 2008,but the charges were dropped even though it was obvious McClelland's death was a homicide .

Vaccinations in the Black Community

Vaccination in the black community is looked at as a form of black genocide to eradicate blacks. This can be specifically seen in black women that receive the HPV vaccine only to find out that they have contracted HPV despite having the vaccine administered. This is particularly because there is a scarce number of vaccines that protects against the certain strains of HPV that a large majority of black women contract as well as other minority groups. The vaccines that have been produced to keep women from contracting HPV only protect women against a limited number of strains out of the numerous ones that exist. There are about 100 HPV sub-types but the vaccines available to the public protect against sub-types 16, 18, 31, 33, 45, 52, 58, 6, and 11. Of these strains of HPV black women most commonly contract sub-types 33, 35, 58, and 68. The controversy of an HPV vaccine that protects against all strains, specifically in black women, is considered problematic and complicated in the medical community. Developing medicine based on one’s race is not looked into very heavily. For example, “A TIME magazine article in 2013 pointed out that scientists are often reluctant to factor race into medical discussions, mostly because it's insanely complicated: race-based medicine, as it's called, is based on genetic factors far more complicated than just skin color. And it's a seriously touchy subject, politically; claiming that different races require different medical care is seen as a "slippery slope" that might lead to deepened racial divides as medical treatment becomes more segregated, and to people excusing the health affects of social inequality as "just the way that race is".