When Gwen Ifill asked a pressing question about AIDS during the vice-presidential debate, both candidates were utterly lost. "I want to talk to you about AIDS, and not about AIDS in China or Africa, but AIDS right here in this country, where black women between the ages of 25 and 44 are 13 times more likely to die of the disease than their counterparts," said Ifill. "What should the government's role be in helping to end the growth of this epidemic?"
Ummmm, free condoms?
Well Ann, you did it again. You got over 340 responses. Good job.
Their counterparts where? In Africa? In China? In China AND Africa?
If anyone is suggesting that black America women between the ages of 25 and 44 are 13 times more likely to die of AIDS than there counterparts in Africa, I'm going to go way out on a limb and call bullsh*t. If it's true at all, it's only because so many women in Africa never live to see the age of 25.
This reeks of some United Nations cooked-books report.