Rumor in African American culture

* “Jewish doctors were injecting black babies with AIDS”
o Steve Cokely, 1989, while quoting other various medical records, while an aide to Mayor Eugene Sawyer of Chicago

* “The AIDS virus had been invented by Jewish doctors to kill black babies”
o Steve Cokely, 1991 on Los Angeles’ KPFK-FM, of the Pacifica Radio network, responding to a caller speaking about Ed Hooper’s book, The River: A journey back to the source of HIV and AIDS which pointed about many of the Doctors mentioned has Jewish surnames., . [1]

* “(AIDS was) started by human beings to get after certain people they don’t like.”
o Bill Cosby, December 4, 1991 edition of The New York Post

* “A real-life Frankenstein started the disease. I believe AIDS has been man-made. AIDS was started by human beings - maybe even one person - in a Frankenstein sort of way to get certain people they didn’t like.’”
o Bill Cosby, 1991, National Enquirer interview

* “I’m convinced AIDS is a government-engineered disease. They got one thing wrong, they never realized it couldn’t just be contained to the groups it was intended to wipe out. So, now it’s a national priority. Exactly like drugs when they escaped the urban centers into white suburbia.”
o Spike Lee, November 1992 issue of Rolling Stone

* “Although I am a biologist, I have not done any research. I may not be able to say who developed the (HIV) virus but it was meant to wipe out the Black race”
o 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winning Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement in the October 9, 2004 issue of East African Standard

* “Possibly AIDS was created as a result of biological-warfare testing.”
o actor Will Smith in July 1999 Vanity Fair

* “Certain biowarfare weapons have been specifically designed to target and kill certain ethnic and racial groups.”
o columnist Tony Brown

* “As an African-American who knows something about our history, I can’t rule out conspiracy as regards AIDS or crack”
o Mark Riley, New York radio talk show host

* “(AIDS is) a man-made disease designed to kill us all.”
o Louis Farrakhan