3-12-12 F.W. Mike Rodger's Rolling Stone Article

        I believe the reaction in the 70’s was a smaller version of what would have happened in the 50’s. There were a lot more openly racist people in the 50’s. Equal rights laws where slowly taking affect in the 70’s. The racist of the time where a little less open. This is still true today. Unfortunately there are still people who think there’s something wrong with people who aren’t white. Fortunately there are less and less of them all the time. (Because there old and die, thankfully)

        Now if Henrietta was a white woman, there would have been a difference. Not as big as you might think. She was still a woman in the 50’s with little to no education. And let’s face it poor is poor. I don’t know exactly how much hardship women experienced in the 50’s but I’m sure it was awful. Women’s equal rights were also a joke at that time. So put poor, uneducated and female together in the 50’s. She had little chance of getting much better treatment but still something’s would have been better.

        I guess the sad truth about race is that no matter what the year, you still have ignorant white males. Who are the sources of most of the information given to us. This is true in war, be it the war on racism, women’s right or over sea’s. History books are written by the victor. This makes most of them byes and jaded. So to hear the story of Henrietta Lacks (Win or Loss) is a testament to the final victor of the Lacks family.