Sammie Rae StephensDec 31, 2022
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Do you know who Henrietta Lacks is? Statue of Henrietta Lacks will replace Robert E Lee. Read the article.
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Statue of Henrietta Lacks will replace Robert E Lee - BBC News

She will be honoured decades after cells taken without her consent helped revolutionise medicine.

BBC News
Dec 29, 2022 at 8:39amWeb
Show threadblan©k.Dec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon YES!!!
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@BlackMastodon @sonyablanck she deserves this honor
Show threadblan©k.Dec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon she and her descendants deserve the honour plus reparations! certainly a hell of a lot more than that other guy
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@BlackMastodon @sonyablanck I agree.
Show threadJeremy (יעקב) 🇺🇦Dec 29, 2022

@zhivi @BlackMastodon @sonyablanck

That she is replacing the statue that White Nationalists from around the country gathered, and killed to try to force on the local government, is just too perfect.

She is responsible for 2 Nobel prizes so far and will have more to come. Finally starting proper recognition.

Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@BlackMastodon @sonyablanck @imstilljeremy thank you. Finally.
Show threadwriteblankspace 🌒Dec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon Woah, imagine contributing to science without even knowing that you did! Risky thing that the doctor did though.
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@BlackMastodon @writeblankspace yes it was. People debt understand why black folks don't trust doctors.
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@BlackMastodon @writeblankspace glad she is being recognized.
Show threadAndrew HundtDec 29, 2022

@zhivi @BlackMastodon thanks for sharing!

Really wish the BBC didn't put stolen in scare quotes when it referred to the cells.

Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@ahundt @BlackMastodon thank you for responding and reading. What would should have been used instead?
Show threadAndrew HundtDec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon I was just thinking stolen instead of "stolen", so no quotes. The way that sentence read to me it brought to mind some of the institutional dismissiveness Ruha Benjamin described in "Viral Justice" regarding Henrietta Lacks, HeLa cells, and her family. The book is much better on the topic overall in my view.
Show threadAndrew HundtDec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon * than the BBC article
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@ahundt @BlackMastodon thank you for clarifying and the resource you posted.
Show threadTinaDec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon I do! Everyone should read about her remarkable story
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@trcfwtt @BlackMastodon yes they should.
Show threadTinaDec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon her family needs to be compensated.
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@BlackMastodon @trcfwtt yes they do
Show threadIan Channing 🦈Dec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon love the story, but can I suggest the non-AMP (google controlled) link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64059050
Statue of Henrietta Lacks will replace Robert E Lee

She will be honoured decades after cells taken without her consent helped revolutionise medicine.

BBC News
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@ianchanning @BlackMastodon thank you. I should have grabbed that one instead.
Show threadKimmiDec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon thank you for reminding me of her name, know about this beautiful story, a true gift to humankind.
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@Kimmi1965 @BlackMastodon you’re welcome.
Show threadJenny ZehringerDec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon Yes! I have read about Ms Lacks but I did not know about the statue. Roanoke is my hometown so I’m very excited to learn about this recognition! I May have to travel home in October to see the unveiling- thanks for sharing 😊
Show threadBert LatamoreDec 29, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon Great news. She certainly made a larger contribution to the world than Lee, who was a traitor his country and a second-rate general, ever did.
Show threadzhiviDec 29, 2022
@BertL @BlackMastodon yes she did.
Show threadShannon TDec 30, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon The book about her was required reading in my girls’ biology class in MT.
Show threadzhiviDec 31, 2022
@BlackMastodon @shan73198 Thant’s great.
Show threadIdealistic Pragmatist Dec 31, 2022
@zhivi I’m mostly not keen on statues of people, but I definitely make an exception in this case. HENRIETTA LACKS, baby!
Show threadzhiviDec 31, 2022
@IPEdmonton thanks for replying. She deserves it.
Show threadLizzie Speaks Too SoonDec 31, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon I never heard about her. What a hero! I'm so sorry her treatment was unsuccessful. She and her family should have known much sooner about her contribution. I'm glad her statue is going up in the place of that loser racist traitor.
Show threadzhiviDec 31, 2022
@BlackMastodon @LizzieSpeaks this is, and many others reasons, why some in the black community don’t like doctors or prefer to go to black doctors.
Show threadLizzie Speaks Too SoonDec 31, 2022
@zhivi @BlackMastodon Yep. I get it. I would do the same.