#tuskeegee

[canticleofcanticlesforleibowitz]

Everyone being certified to conduct research with human subjects (of any kind, including administering or designing surveys) has to learn about this and pass a test about it.

That's not enough people who have to learn about it.

On this day, 25 July 1972, the US government admitted its role in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a horrific 40-year study of poor Black agricultural workers in Alabama who had syphilis but were not informed. Over the course of the study, 128 participants died of syphilis or related complications, 40 wives of participants were infected, and 19 children were born with congenital syphilis. The government owned up following leaks to the media about the programme. The resulting public outrage forced the introduction of federal regulation to protect human subjects in medical trials. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9751/tuskegee-experiment-revealed https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=667731932066692&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

[itstheheebiejeebies]

As good as the finale was I am still left in serious want for more storyline for the Tuskegee Airmen because wow they really got a quarter of an episode in ep8 and maybe 3 lines in this ep and we're supposed to be good?

We really should have had scenes with them across more episodes, and gotten at least a fraction of their story because the way they were shown really showed almost nothing

[quietwingsinthesky]

i mean, i guess one solution to adapting the racist orangutan story is to just. not address Any Of That.

[hboww2rewatch]

Welcome to HBO's WWII Fandom Rewatch!

You are cordially invited to join us in watching Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air in chronological order April 29 - July 14, 2024.

We will be watching three episodes a week and will have prompts to boost fandom creation as we watch together!

You can find the episode schedule and prompts below the cut. Individual posts can be found here and here if you prefer shorter posts.

If you are unable to watch the show at the same time as the schedule, no worries. While we are personally planning to liveblog together the episodes per the schedule, we understand everyone has lives outside of tumblr. Watch whenever you are able - our goal is to bond over our love for these shows and experience them again together. Pop in when you are able! :)

Please tag all your posts during this event with #hboww2rewatch and give us a follow for all updates on the rewatch.

Please reblog this post to spread the word!

Schedule:

We are tentatively planning to watch Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturdays, but that is not set in stone - watch when you are able during the week!

Week 1: Mon April 29- Sun May 5

The Pacific E1  (Dec ‘41- Oct ‘42) The Pacific E2  (Oct ‘42) The Pacific E3  (Dec ‘42- Fall ‘43)

Week 2: Mon May 6- Sun May 12

Masters of the Air E1  (Spring ‘43) Masters of the Air E2  (Spring ‘43) Masters of the Air E3   (Aug ‘43)

Week 3: Mon May 13- Sun May 19

Masters of the Air E4 (Oct ‘43) Masters of the Air E5 (Oct ‘43) Masters of the Air E6 (Oct ‘43)

Week 4: Mon May 20- Sun May 26

The Pacific E4  (Dec ‘43) Masters of the Air E7  (march ‘44) Band of Brothers E1  (June ‘44)

Week 5: Mon May 27- Sun June 2

Masters of the Air E8  (June ‘44) Band of Brothers E2  (June 6, ‘44) Band of Brothers E3  (June 7, ‘44)

Week 6: Mon June 3- Sun June 9

The Pacific E5  (Sept ‘44) Band of Brothers E4  (Sept ‘44) The Pacific E6  (Sept-Oct ‘44)

Week 7: Mon June 10- Sun June 16

Band of Brothers E5  (Oct ‘44) The Pacific E7  (Oct-Dec ‘44) Band of Brothers E6  (Dec ‘44)

Week 8: Mon June 17- Sun June 23

Band of Brothers E7  (Jan ‘45) Band of Brothers E8  (Feb ‘45) The Pacific E8  (Feb ‘45)

Week 9: Mon June 24- Sun June 30

Band of Brothers E9  (April ‘45) The Pacific E9  (April-June ‘45) Masters of the Air E9  (Feb-June ‘45)

Week 10: Mon July 1- Sun July 7

Band of Brothers E10  (May-Aug ‘45) The Pacific E10  (Aug ‘45) Saving Private Ryan (Bonus event)

Week 11: Mon July 8- Sun July 14 - post rewatch events to encourage fellow fans!

Reblog people’s creations

Leave comments on fics

Consider making a new friend in someone else who participated

Prompts:

Week 1: Mon April 29- Sun May 5:

Heading Out

First Fight

Friends

Orange

Week 2: Mon May 6- Sun May 12:

Crash

Crew

Superstition

Blue

Week 3: Mon May 13- Sun May 19:

Dancing

Reunion

Kinship

Red

Week 4: Mon May 20- Sun May 26:

Recuperation

Camp Life

Training

Green

Week 5: Mon May 27- Sun June 2:

Tuskeegees

Parachute

Injured

Purple

Week 6: Mon June 3- Sun June 9

Reunited

Replacement

Airfield

White

Week 7: Mon June 10- Sun June 16:

Typewriter

Loss

Cold

Pink

Week 8: Mon June 17- Sun June 23:

Shelling

Translation

Wedding

Brown

Week 9: Mon June 24- Sun June 30:

Discovery

Humanity

Celebration

Yellow

Week 10: Mon July 1- Sun July 7:

Bonding

Adjustment

Sacrifice

Dress Uniform

Black

Week 11 Mon July 8- Sun July 14:

Favorite Crew

Favorite Company

Best Friendship

Humor

Underrated Character

Character + Quote

Headcanons

Crossover

Something Missing

[jbarneswilson]

🌀Post the fic summary for a fic you haven't written/published yet. It can be hypothetical or something you really plan on releasing...

hi grace! thank you so much for this ask 🥰

bare bones of this: wwii au, bucky comes back home to delacroix with lots of ptsd, loosely inspired by “only skin” by joanna newsom and saving private ryan. the story starts with him coming back from the european theater and eventually weaves past and present.

summary: For as long as she can remember, Sarah Wilson has loved Bucky Barnes. She never expected him to even notice her, let alone return her feelings; it is the American South, after all, and Black and White don’t mix. But they’d found a way to meet in secret, deep in the bayou at an abandoned cabin where they’d spent hours dreaming dreams about a future in some city called Paris, where no one cared who you loved. Until the war came. They never thought Bucky would be pulled into the fight and then, the dreaded draft card arrived in the mail. Sarah spends two long years waiting for him to return, growing the family’s victory garden, trying not to worry about Sam at Tuskeegee, and holding her mama together at home. But, once Bucky’a back home, will he be able to leave the horrors of war behind or is the future they dreamed of dead like so many others?

send me WIP asks!

[dropyourammo]

*Masters Of The Air Spoilers*

On another episode of I'm the best aunt to my nieces and nephews::

I watched Masters Of The Air with my sister (36) and her children (aged 20, 12, 8, 6, and 3) today. Here are some quotes from their watch:

"Where's Bubbles?" - from all of them, the ENTIRE first few episodes. Apparently, huge Bubbles fans.

"Marge." - 20 year old mocking Gale with Bucky during episode 7.

"What happened to Meatball? Who's watching him?" - 8 year old

"He really does look like Johnny Depp!" - my sister about Austin Butler, no one had suggested that he looked like Johnny Depp 🤷‍♀️

"His lips really are perfect!" - 20 year old about Austin Butler

"Rosie, get out of the goddamn plane!" - 8 year old as Rosie is trying to bail out in episode 9

"Yay! He's flying!" - 3 year old as Rosie falls to No-Mans land in Ep. 9

"And.... kiss!" - the 20 year old and 12 year old after Bucky and Buck spoke to each other in EVERY episode

"That's a room I'd like to sit in!" - about the Tuskeegee Airmen briefing room

"Ooh he felt that." - My sister after Curt punches Bucky in episode 2

"But.. what happened to Buck?" - During episode 5

"Where is Bucky?" - 6 year old actually looking for Buck.

"But which one is Buck and which one is Bucky?" - 8 year old while watching episode 9

All in all, they all thoroughly enjoyed the show, and we had a bunch of great conversations about World War 2 and the history surrounding it. ❤️

[instructionsnotincluded]

Are the Tuskeegee Airmen going to feature a lot? I need them to also be fed up of Bucky's yearning for Stella. Like, we get it man, you miss your girl. And then Stella sends them things too.

I'm not sure if they'll be featured a lot, but I do hope to get them in there! I feel like they'll also get fed up with Bucky's constant monologue about Frank. We get it--we ALL miss our girls, dude.

YES AND STELLA SENDS THEM THINGS AND THEY'RE LIKE... "Ok...continue."

[lestbian]

ok im gonna focus my anger on to something else. anyways i rewatched night at the museum with my mom and it reminded me of how great the original one was and how god awful the sequel was. like yeah there were some iffy things in the first movie (larry going "civil war guys stop fighting slavery is bad" and they immediately stop fighting and agree with him + the romans and the cowboy miniatures allowed to roam free while the maya are locked up + avid bison hunter teddy roosevelt dating sacagawea + despite their incredibly rich history there's zero black people present etc) but overall the film itself was fun and had a plotline that made sense. it was cheesy and kind of obvious but its a kids movie. then the sequel happened.

ohh my god this movie was so so so bad. like racist/misogynistic bad but also narratively unsatisfying. the worst crime to me was that they literally removed almost all of the old iconic characters from the first film? teddy only shows up in the beginning and the end, ahkmenrah is completely irrelevant, scagawea and attila are locked up most of the time, jed is stuck in the hourglass...none of them have any importance to the actual action despite being THE reason that larry returns to the museum!!

oh and larry totally ditches his son like nick gives him a bunch of information then he loses service on his phone and then...never attempts to contact him again. this poor kid is probably worried sick that his father is being killed by lions or sabretooth tigers.

second worst thing to do with characters: literally all of the new characters were so so incredibly boring, and also didn't have like. a theme around them? it just felt so messy and thrown together, lacking the cohesion that everyone at the natural history museum had. none of the villains have much in common with each other either... and like im not a history expert but i find it very hard to imagine that al capone would work with royalty like come on. oh and kahmunrah was so boring, no real motivations at all. also whyyy is there an octopus.

actually i lied this is probably a worse crime. the mischaracterization of historical figures. i feel like im watching fucking hamilton here! im sorry but napoleon would not give a shit about larry and amelia's potential relationship and that joke wasn't even that funny anyway. WHY DID ABRAHAM LINCOLN ACT LIKE THAT (he was much more tolerable when he came back to the rescue but he was so awful when we met him). the einsteins were annoying. i could go on and on brother

ok moving away from bad writing to address the stuff that's just morally messed up. um. everything about general custer oh my fucking god. i will never forgive them for making sacagawea put up with his stupid ass. he is quite literally most famous for the fact that he tried to kill indigenous people. yeah it wasn't in sacagawea's lifetime but i find it hard to believe that things would just be totally chill between them. not to mention the fact that custer literally contributed nothing, he has an entire moment where larry coddles him for being a failure, then goes into the fight, immediately gets knocked out, and then tries to act like he led the battle. classic white man behavior.

and again, massive lack of black history. there's a moment of solidarity with amelia and the tuskeegee which was nice! genuinely sweet moment. but despite yknow being the race that has existed longer than any other. the tuskeegee are the only black people we see.

and of course the elephant in the room, the obnoxious focus on romance throughout the entirety of the film. the cherubs were super annoying. the thinker showing off his muscles to some random nymph statue or whatever. very weird. and the constant never ending awkward flirting between amelia and larry. like amelia is supposed to be a trailblazer for being a woman doing something impressive that was considered a man's job! so why are you reducing her to a pretty girl who punches people sometimes but mostly just kisses the protagonist even when he says he's not interested!! part of what made the og movie so good was that there were women in the story but none of them were romantically involved with him at all. even rebecca, who seemed like she was set up to be a love interest, was just a good friend of larry's. they were independent women with agency (aside from sacagawea but she shares that lack of agency with the other museum displays) and their own wants needs etc. and of course they had to add in the weirdness of having larry repeatedly say he's not interested in amelia (which makes sense, it would feel out of character for him to immediately be into it) and then have amelia kiss him anyways. really gross. oh and they cast amy adams to play amelia which. nothing against amy adams she's a brilliant actress but not the one for this role. google amelia earhart she's a pretty masculine/rougher woman. not the femme fatale in the movie.

ok i don't have a real conclusion here just my thoughts all dumped. if you read all of this o7 i salute you. feel free to comment/rb with your thoughts btw!

[itstheheebiejeebies]

For Week 5 of HBO WWII Rewatch Promts: Tuskeegee, Parachute, and Purple

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[mar-sibilina]

Cuddy: You don’t prescribe medicine based on guesses. At least we don’t since Tuskeegee and Mengele. House: You’re comparing me to a Nazi? Nice.

[trashwaaveactual]

Tuskeegee experiment II: MRNA boogaloo

[hboww2rewatch]

Prompt List for HBO WWII Rewatch

Use these prompts for fanart, gifsets, fanvideos, fanfictions, etc - whatever inspires you!!

You can find the rewatch schedule here.

Please tag your posts #hboww2rewatch and give us a follow for all updates on the rewatch.

Week 1: Mon April 29- Sun May 5:

Heading Out

First Fight

Friends

Orange

Week 2: Mon May 6- Sun May 12:

Crash

Crew

Superstition

Blue

Week 3: Mon May 13- Sun May 19:

Dancing

Reunion

Kinship

Red

Week 4: Mon May 20- Sun May 26:

Recuperation

Camp Life

Training

Green

Week 5: Mon May 27- Sun June 2:

Tuskeegees

Parachute

Injured

Purple

Week 6: Mon June 3- Sun June 9

Reunited

Replacement

Airfield

White

Week 7: Mon June 10- Sun June 16:

Typewriter

Loss

Cold

Pink

Week 8: Mon June 17- Sun June 23:

Shelling

Translation

Wedding

Brown

Week 9: Mon June 24- Sun June 30:

Discovery

Humanity

Celebration

Yellow

Week 10: Mon July 1- Sun July 7:

Bonding

Adjustment

Sacrifice

Dress Uniform

Black

Week 11 Mon July 8- Sun July 14:

Favorite Crew

Favorite Company

Best Friendship

Humor

Underrated Character

Character + Quote

Headcanons

Crossover

Something Missing

Please reblog this post to spread the word!

[isetmyfriendsonfire]

why are news outlets trying to call that tuskeegee shooting a mass shooting and pin the whole thing on that jaquez myrick guy when there's video of the event where you can clearly hear like 5 different guns going off

[britney-rosberg06]

THE TUSKEEGEE AIRMEN ARE ON MY SCREEN

[vague-humanoid]

also i'm currently hearing their gonna make the black victim of government torture who's narrative was based on the tuskeegee experiments a villain in this? like the zionism was so intense I didn't even have attention for the antiblackness and have to look into this.

[lilylived]

One of the prisoners in Alabama was found with all his organs missing including his brain.

That's almost definitely medical experimenation. It's probably being funded by some popular drug companies too, just like I always suspected. You don't need the brain for anything other than (extremely illegal) experimentation.

If people can't even uncover a Tuskeegee level tragedy and this news is forgotten in a month, the entire nation is really a bunch of flops.