Posted on 01/13/2009 3:41:16 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
U.S. syphillis rates rose for a seventh year in 2007, driven by gay and bisexual men, while chlamydia reached record numbers and gonorrhea remained at alarming levels -- especially among blacks, health officials said on Tuesday.
Blacks make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, but account for about 70 percent of gonorrhea cases and almost half of chlamydia and syphillis cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said...
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What say you?
I wonder if Larry gave Barry a case.
Does this include the disproportionate number of blacks in prison and how will this one be blamed on Bush?
They want to tax all our sins like french fries, cigarettes etc., because of the increase in health care costs. Could promiscuity be the next revenue stream for the US govt.? ;)
As economic commentary here.
Are there a disproportionate number of blacks in prison because blacks are more likely to cause crimes, or because they are more likely to be aggressively prosecuted for crimes?
I have heard both interpretations concerning the statistics, but either one seems equally likely.
Things can be interpreted two ways.
Which one do you think it is?
OMG ! Racist diseases!
What's next?
Obviously this “CDC” is some right-wing, racist homophobic outfit.
/sarc
Well, apparently gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis bacteria are racists, as well as homophobic.
Since I’m a judge I’ll jump in.
Blacks and other minorities like American natives are proportionately lower income. The income level is what drives the statistics of crime. It’s a vicious cycle and you can discuss the cause and effects for hours, but all the numbers will point you in the same direction. Low income = high crime.
In my experience most "vicious cycles" result from circular reasoning. What causes low income?
Has anybody seen Barney Franks medical records lately?? I’ll bet he is spreading the disease, along with some ch@@ks.
Really? Why didn't whites have these rates in earlier decades and centuries when absolute living conditions lower middle class people were lower than the absolute living conditions of poor people today in the US?
No. They will never utter a word against the homosexual crowd because its not PC.
So there are no poor white people?
We regulate smoking for health reasons.
We need to do the same with Homosexuals.
And from there into drug communities and infants.
HIV+ babies. Drug addicted babies. Legacies of liberalism.
In general I'd agree that lower income folks probably commit most of the crime, I'm not sure however, that the crime rate for poor minorities are the same. Given a comparable level of poverty, I still think culture contributes as well.
This is what I’d call “An Inconvenient Truth”
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