Congressional Candidate Denies Supporting AIDS Conspiracy Theory
ROSS BARKAN
Harlem pastor and congressional candidate Mike Walrond insisted last night that he doesn’t think the government infected African-Americans with AIDS, despite a report indicating he found the theory “credible.”
Mr. Walrond, a Democrat challenging longtime Congressman Charlie Rangel, told host Errol Louis on NY1′s Inside City Hall that a recent New York Post report drawing on a 2008 story in the The Economist, did not properly contextualize his comments.
“What it was, the conversation in the magazine was a large and broader conversation and the question was, is that I believe AIDS was something that the government had infected African-American people with and at the time I said, for many people in the African-American community, they believe that is credible,” Mr. Walrond. said. “And there’s a history with the Tuskegee experiment. But I did not believe that.”
“And so I think they took the part where I said it was ‘credible’ and ran with that,” he continued. “But no I do not believe that.”
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