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FWIW, I think AIDS is massively UNDER-REPORTED in Africa.

AIDS carries an incredible stigma there that taints the entire family. Unlike here, where we're told 25% of gays are seeking out the disease.

I've been in these debates on FR before so I'm compelled to brandish my conservative credentials. I vote straight Republican, attend a Presbyterian church regularly, read a lot of history, am a white, heterosexual parent and spouse, a well-paid professional who loathes affirmative action, politically correct stupidity, and Nancy Pelosi.

But I have friends, educated, intelligent, kind friends, whose brothers and sisters and fathers and mothers have died of AIDS in Africa. They are not all people of the bushes. They look like your next door neighbor, or your accountant or the kids your sons play basketball with.

And they're dying like knats in a bucket of bleach.

And the more you read about this, the more you're brought to the sickening, numbing conclusion that it will not end until Africa is devoid of black faces.

Like Stanley Kramer's line about Spielberg, "Six million Jews died, and he makes a movie about the 600 who lived."

You might consider the fact that the only thing they are doing for AIDS in Africa is handing out condems if you really believe the objective of some people is to free Africa of black faces.

I think a group of people may have that intent,so blaming death on AIDS serves a whole lot of folks' evil intents.It also keeps the money rolling into the AIDS esperts. It takes a lot of money to have conferences like they recently held in Barcelona.

FWIW, I think AIDS is massively UNDER-REPORTED in Africa.

Well, surely I don't have to lecture you on the necessity of sound science in epidemiology. Opinions don't count for anything.

AIDS carries an incredible stigma there that taints the entire family. Unlike here, where we're told 25% of gays are seeking out the disease.

As worthwhile as that story is, even I don't accept their estimate of 25%. But I'm quite sure it isn't 0% either.

I've been in these debates on FR before so I'm compelled to brandish my conservative credentials. I vote straight Republican, attend a Presbyterian church regularly, read a lot of history, am a white, heterosexual parent and spouse, a well-paid professional who loathes affirmative action, politically correct stupidity, and Nancy Pelosi.

No one is questioning your conservative stance or your personal integrity. By the same token, your personal qualities do not automatically transfer to any victim group for whom you have sympathy or whose illness you don't find adequately explained by current theories.

And the more you read about this, the more you're brought to the sickening, numbing conclusion that it will not end until Africa is devoid of black faces.

Or until a once-burgeoning population finds leaders who will attend to sanitation and disease-prevention. You should read Quigley's Tragedy and Hope for a historical perspective on how these issues influence the development and longterm prospects of civilizations and individual countries.