Thursday, April 21, 2005

Many blacks blame government for HIV/AIDS epidemic

Chris Stevenson:

A recent study reveals that African-Americans who comprise 13 percent of the American population also make up 50 percent of new HIV infections. Black women made up 73 percent of the new female HIV cases in 2003, compared to 40 percent of new cases for black men (black gay men represented 30 percent of the black males, there are no reports of new cases among black lesbians).

These findings are not surprising; everyone has been aware of the growing AIDS dilemma. What people in general are not aware of is the new black view on AIDS origins that is taking on a snowball effect almost as swiftly as the illness itself.

According to a study by the Rand Corp. and the University of Oregon, 44 percent of all African-Americans think that the new HIV patients that take the new medicines are actually guinea pigs, and 15 percent of those same polled think that AIDS is a form of genocide aimed toward blacks.

If AIDS is a form of "genocide" then it is one that blacks have been inflicting on each other by engaging in unsafe sexual practices such as promiscuity and intercourse without condoms.

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