For some time now in Texas, we have been well aware of significant health disparities between Caucasians in contrast to African Americans and U.S. Hispanics.

Those hearings led Mr. Blair to the creation of the Texas Office of Minority Health.

In 1993, during my first year in the Texas Legislature, I picked up his mantle and successfully authored legislation funding the Office of Minority Health (OMH).

Questions like these are posed, as many credible research studies have validated that medical treatment for people of color is so often disproportionately different from that of whites who present the same symptoms.

The multi-layered reminders mirroring the intent and devastation of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment conducted on African Americans by the United States Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972 ruminate in our hearts and minds.