Posted on 02/15/2007 9:14:33 AM PST by Rodney Kings Brain
Moving Ideas Network - reports
AIDS in the United States (Feb. 2, 2007): “In the US … more than half of all new [AIDS] cases reported each year are among African American individuals. ... This [is] a disturbing commentary on the social realities of racial politics and racism in the US. Called ‘the disease that doesn’t discriminate,’ AIDS is becoming emblematic of a society that, whether institutionally or irrationally, intentionally or inadvertently, does. The prevalence of AIDS in the black community in the US speaks to widely acknowledged deficiencies in the black population’s access to basic resources like education, health care, and sufficient employment. It has also been branded as a piercing reflection of political disenfranchisement and marginalization by mainstream society of poor blacks especially."
Gay Rights Following the Midterm Election (December 18, 2006): “... 45 states in total now have amendments or laws against gay marriages. Three states, Vermont, Connecticut, and just recently New Jersey, instated civil unions, and domestic partnerships are available in California, Maine, and Hawaii. The Human Rights Campaign [HRC] ... tallied the election of over two hundred ‘pro-equality’ candidates. HRC President Joe Solmonese observed that conservatives seemed to gain less headway in the polls by opposing gay initiatives than they’ve been able to before. Solmonese and colleagues have characterized this as a signal for [them] to take the gay agenda from defensive to proactive.”
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AIDS discriminates? How do they get a pointy white hat small enough to fit on that tiny little virus?
WOW diversity. Poor Gay Black Aids, all in one post.
So, they are telling me that they have to be educated and told to keep it in their pants? But isn't the education system teaching everyone to take it out of their pants? Wouldn't that inicate that they are highly educated?
-this liberalism stuff is so confusing..
So, a better paying job prevents AIDS? Interesting...
last I heard, they weren't allowed to teach kids (of ANY color) to keep it in their pants..that's called abstinence and it's intolerable to teach or discuss in the classroom..
In the District of Columbia, the percentage of HIV/Positive adults outranks 24 sub-Saharan countries. That, according to the Whitman-Walker Clinic in DC.
What is says is that the black population in America has been allied to a welfare state mentality that expects the government to answer every problem.
Since the beginning of the so-called "Great Society" out of wedlock births in the black community, for example, have skyrocketed. The illegitimate birth rate in DC is over 70%.
More government programs and government funds will not solve this problem.
Witness DC. It should be a shining example of how well meaning government largess has turned our nation's capital into a Shangri-La. But instead, it is a seething, simmering pot of lawlessness, immorality and depravity.
If you have the mindset the says "the more children I have by the greatest number of women makes me a bigger man" the greater chance you have of catching or spreading AIDS.
This is the same problem that is occurring in Africa, its a cultural problem and blaming it on the "Man" won't cure it.
Only REAL MEN and WOMEN can stop this problem.
Don't forget licorice, first black candy.
The rate of AIDS in the present demographic of the African-American population can probably be equated to the rate of single-parent, female heads-of-household in the African-American community and the rate at which young African-American males do not marry, settle down and become stable fathers and devoted husbands.
Both of those rates can probably be related to a residual of liberal welfare policies that were only finally pushed aside a decade ago. Just because those policies have been reduced, they did not immediately send all welfare-client, single-parent, female heads-of-household to the alter, or bring father figures into their sons lives. It will probably take another generation to re-build the African-American families whose destruction was aided by liberal "compassion" of the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Until then, the larger-than-other-groups quotient of unattached, single, adult, 18-30, African-American males will continue to add to the health risks in the "African-American community".
I am not excusing their behavior, which on its own could vastly reduce the incidence of AIDS, regardless of their marital status. But, it is that demographic, the single, unattached, adult African-American male from which the health problems of AIDS is the highest, and its cause is in the social dynamic of that group, and their behavior, and not because "the nation" cares less about them.
The "national" error was in the liberal programs that helped produce the communities in which such a large portion of single, adult, unattached men were obtained.
Or is it that they have better access to one (or two) more things than whites do.
Should I feel discriminated against?
OOOOOOOOOK.............I guess that because they can't keep their pants zipped up and their panty hose on, we need to blame America. That should show the level of education people have.
Hell no they can't discuss keeping it in their pants. If they did that, they couldn't have sex with the kids. Geeeezzzzz....you gotta pay attention here. The NEA is becoming a big sex school.
"The prevalence of AIDS in the black community in the US speaks to widely acknowledged deficiencies in the black population’s access to basic resources like education, health care, and sufficient employment."
Should read, "The prevalence of AIDS in the black community in the US speaks to widely acknowledged deficiencies in the black population’s incapability to keep their pants on and zipped."
The LARGEST, EASIEST PREVENTABLE disease on the planet and this article blames it on racism. What a f**king joke.
When they talk about the black population, are they including the refugees from Africa, such as the Somalis who probably bring the disease in with them? This would bump the numbers up.
I was reading yesterday where a reporter is of mixed background..she was referred to as a..get ready for this..a "cuban-irish-american"..
I guess I can start referring to myself as a "czech-slovak-scots-irish-american" and claim a minority status..wait, I'm a white guy..I can only be caucasian..
'Scuse me while I finish barfing from this crap.
Blacks, gays, poor, whatever, all have access to education in this country that (at a bare minimum) will teach them to read a cue card that says "You want fries with that?" If they make a choice not to read, see, or hear anything about AIDs because it interrupts their All-Sports-All-American-Idol-All-The-Time-Dumbing-Down network, that is neither racist nor anyone's fault but their own.
The writer bends into a pretzel trying to blame whitey for the increase in aids among blacks.
A good friend of mine is from DC and refused to have any intimate relationships with a man from DC. Mainly because she said the AIDS and STD rate in D.C. is out of control (2 of her relatives are HIV positive). Later on she married a man from Alabama.
This is right out of the liberal playbook. I have seen it in college here in California. All ills of [insert minority group here] are caused by discrimination and lack of "access" to health care and in particular to the liberal panacea of education.
The solution of course is to bring down white heterosexual conservatives (who are by definition rich and powerful racist homophobes) and give tons of their money to government education and government health care. When that doesn't work? They claim they didn't get enough money.
What they cannot realize in their fairy-lands that here in reality that your and your family's morality brings you through certain stages in your life. Broken families may take generations to rebuild and become a solid base for a successful life. So many liberals come from a moral family, and grew up in communities of moral families, but don't realize how that has protected them from poverty, STD's, and all the other ills of society that they want the gov't to fix.
I agree with you. I am a young black married woman and have talked to blacks who feel that racism has something to do with the high HIV/AIDS rate among minorities in this country. My question for them is what does race have to do with leaving your pants on or having protected sex. HIV/AIDS is a preventable disease. Now if someone contracted the disease through no fault of their own (blood transfusion, from their mother, rape, or an unfaithful spouse) then yes I sympathize with them.
Do you ever get any halfway decent answers?
I was about to mention the pants thing.
I have a friend whose father is retired from the U.N., but still participates in managing the U.N. AIDS "efforts" in Africa.
My friend read over some working papers that cited the usual; more funding needed, education, access to drugs and relief from drug patents, etc. He suggested to his father that maybe Africans need to make an effort to keep their pants on.
Pops agreed, but said, "We can't tell them that".
Same goes here in the U S of A.
Right.
If only we could trade our black liberals for the Ebo of Nigeria.
They call the Ebo, "The Jews of Africa". They are hard-working, strive to educate themselves, earn money and be successful. They are successful in a continent of despair.
The Ebo I know are great.
I have never got a halfway decent answer, all the answers that I get are ones that avoid the whole issue of personal responsiblity.
I am English and I am still waiting for reparations from those pesky Roman's who made my people build there roads hundreds of years ago - I guess the Vikings owe me to for all the pillaging and raping they did to my ancestors.
"Now if someone contracted the disease through no fault of their own (blood transfusion, from their mother, rape, or an unfaithful spouse) then yes I sympathize with them."
I agree. But those are VERY few.
I also believe racism is used as an excuse far too often because it absolves the accuser of responsibility. If you can blame someone else you don't have to look inward for the fault.
Yes,personal responsiblility is essential but another possible reason for the tendency of black people in this country blaming AIDS on racism was the sordid history of the medical community vis a vis blacks.
Not only the Tuskeegee Experiment but the many in prison clinical trials where blacks were the predominate group used as guinea pigs.There is a book just out docummenting this shameful part of our history but I don't recall the title.
I interact with many young black people in my town and for the most part I really enjoy their energy,creativity and spirit.Yet they have almost completely bought into the whole""I'm a playa and I want that booty"mentality.Almost none of them come from two parent stable home lives so they have absolutely NO models from which to build healthy relationships.All they see are rap videos with video hos shaking their asses and wanna be pimps counting gobs of money at gambling tables.
Not a constructive model from which to build a thriving black family.
You are right about the history of the medical community and blacks, especially the Tuskeegee experiment. I have came in contact with a lot of blacks who don't trust the medical community to this day, because of the awful history of the medical community towards blacks.
However, blacks and others must do what they have to do to protect themselves from contracting this virus. For the past 20 years it is a lot of information out about HIV/AIDS and in the end it is up to the individual to make sure they are taking the proper precautions.
I don't like rap music either because the image it promotes. My parents and my hubby's parents are still married, but a lot of young blacks don't have the same. To me it seems like a cycle, the young girls grow up around men who have that "playa mentality" in turn they think that is what a real man is and how he is supposed to act. From there they repeat the same mistakes by hooking up with the "playa" type of man who has no desire to settle down and get married. The same type of man who only cares about getting a woman into bed. I pray my 2 young daughters will never come across men like this when they get older.
I love the oldies, give me a Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell duet anyday over the junk that is being put out now.
Once again, we don't get the facts, we get an emotionally charged article that's supposed to victimize the poor blacks who get AIDS from unprotected coupling and make it all "the white middle-class's fault" because the poor blacks are "politically disenfranchised and marginalized by mainstream society."
Poor blacks have had everything "GIVEN" to them -- welfare, food stamps, health care, housing, mental health care, assistance in locating employment, child care -- and all they have to do is keep their twice a year appointments and mail in their completed forms. They can register to vote at the food stamp office, the welfare office, and numerous other places.
Why doesn't the political left do something constructive in the black community instead of blatheringly giving poor blacks one more way to excuse their current behavior? We live in the USofA and anyone who wants to achieve can find a way to do so. And the first way is to accept responsibility for their actions.
Call them all you want..they heard IT ALL..AND THEY
DON'T LIKE YOU ANYHOW...Just like Jesse and Al, they
are half he problem...how much support do the Blacks
get from each other when they climb to positions of
power? Re: Connie Rice, for one...they join in and
ridicule her just like the Drive by media??? JK
I agree with everything you just said.
Oh,yes,the days of Motown and Stax.I treasure those songs.Melody,harmony and intelligent-for the MOST part-lyrics.
Its amazing that rap has lasted so long as a genre.The kids don't seem to ever get sick of it.I think much of the black musical community is in a real creative rut.
I feel you on not wanting your daughters to be exposed to the drama out there.
I would suggest a private Christian school or someplace that would reinforce the values you are trying to inculcate in them at home.
Another suggestion I have comes from my experience in the Nineties when a very good friend of mine and myself took a group of his neices and nephews under our wing as children and had monthly meetings to stress positive values and monitor school progress.We also took them to plays and museums,went on nature hikes, and kept emphasizing the importance of family.
I must say that today none of them have been to jail,gotten pregnant and are all self supporting.They could have used the"I'm just a black child in Tha Town,I got to do what I gotta do"excuse but they stayed strong.
They still show me love today and hopefully when they have families they will emulate what we did for them.
Marvin and Tammi!Now you're talking.Every March 16th and April First I take some time out to play their music to commemorate the date of their passing and give thanks for their music.
Quick story-I used to run with some hippies back in 1967.They were into the psychedelic sound.So I was with them at an"underground"coffee house in Sacramento when I noticed Your Precious Love by Marvin and Tammi on the jukebox.I immediately played that and I will never forget the look on my hippie friend's faces!I was playing that"spade music"!Truly a big cultural disconnect for them.
Thats the day I learned hippies could be racist too!Ah,if looks could have killed that day!
I am seriously considering putting my girls in a private Christian school. I think it is wonderful you took your friends nieces and nephews under your wing.
I wish you well.I think it makes a big difference having strong,motivated parents.Lord knows I strayed a lot as a youngster.I could tell you stories that would no doubt shock you very much but I learned from my mistakes and was fortunate that my parents never gave up on me and supported me even in my most self destrucive phase.
Finding God and letting go of all the negative nonsense I had been brainwashed with most of my life by this culture was a critcal catalyst for change.I just found out I didn't NEED the drugs,the parties,the alcohol,the loose females,the compulsion to have"fun"
I am at peace now with my books,my music,my work with the youngsters and my few true friends.I am much more alone now but my heart is satisfied.
And thats whats really important as I approach age 60 this year.An"OG in the game"who finally has his head on right!
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