Opelika, Ala.: Re “The Tuskegee syphilis study’s shame echoes today” (op-ed, July 25): The Tuskegee abomination wasn’t a study. To dignify it thusly is injurious, inaccurate and insulting. Educated professionals engaged in criminal behavior. They lied, they withheld available penicillin and they salved their corrupt consciences by providing uneducated and impoverished men free hot lunches, free transportation to and from the hospital and free burials.
Ossining, N.Y.: Voicers Carmelo Burgos and Richard Garofalo both need history lessons. While Burgos is right that Democrats in 1861 were pro-slavery racists and Republicans were abolitionists, that all changed when Richard Nixon used his Southern strategy to appeal to white people fearful of people of color. He turned the GOP into what we see today: xenophobic bigots.
Tappan, N.Y.: “Invasion” is an ominous word. It conjures personal harm and pending calamity. It is something we all shudder at the thought of. Yet, in 2022, an invasion is taking place in Ukraine by a more forceful country, militarily strong, driven by a man who wants to control a country of hard-working, honest people. He is intent on adding Ukraine to his Russian landmass, no matter the cost.
Ossining, N.Y.: I can only guess where someone like Voicer Joyce Pinto gets her facts. Based on her litany of inaccuracies, I’d say Fox News. Ms. Pinto, the “left-liberals” have not opened the borders. Border agents are still apprehending those crossing illegally. The scene of thousands of Haitian immigrants massing under a Texas bridge was long ago cleared.