Tuesday - July 29, 2008

AIDS is now a black disease, and whitey is guilty

Oh God. Endless victim hood again. Black people are about 13% of the US population, yet recent data shows that they are nearly 50% of new HIV and AIDS cases. A very large percentage of those cases are among young people, and a large percentage of those young people are women. This is because homosexuality is generally denied in the black community, and a huge part of the homosexual black men maintain appearances by having heterosexuals relations. But let’s blame Bush and the government, because all the billions and billions spent on AIDS research has nothing to do with black people, and all the awareness and prevention campaigns are aimed at white folks. Because black folks can’t possibly watch the same TV channels, read the same newspapers, or even look at the same billboards by the side of the highway that white people do. Give me a break. What we have here is an epidemic caused by both dishonesty and irresponsibility solely by black people. And now they want to cry discrimination so they can get a huge bucket of money. Um, no. Total. Fail. There isn’t a single person over the age of 11 in the US who doesn’t know where AIDS comes from, how it’s spread, and how it can easily be prevented. Color doesn’t matter here at all; we’ve all had the message hammered home eighty zillion times.

The AIDS epidemic among African-Americans in some parts of the United States is as severe as in parts of Africa, according to a report out Tuesday.  “Left Behind - Black America: A Neglected Priority in the Global AIDS” is intended to raise awareness and remind the public that the “AIDS epidemic is not over in America, especially not in Black America,” says the report, published by the Black AIDS Institute, an HIV/AIDS think tank focused exclusively on African-Americans.

“AIDS in America today is a black disease,” says Phill Wilson, founder and CEO of the institute and himself HIV-positive for 20 years. “2006 CDC data tell us that about half of the just over 1 million Americans living with HIV or AIDS are black.”

Although black people represent only about one in eight Americans, one in every two people living with HIV in the United States is black, the report notes.

The report uses just-released data from UNAIDS and existing CDC and Census data to highlight grim statistics:

• AIDS remains the leading cause of death among black women between ages 25 and 34. It’s the second-leading cause of death in black men 35-44. (killing each other remains the #1 cause)

• In Washington, more than 80 percent of HIV cases are among black people, that’s one in 20 residents. (why not? more than 80% of DC’s population is black)
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According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, domestic prevention efforts make up the smallest part of the HIV/AIDs budget, the 2009 budget request includes $892 million for domestic HIV prevention efforts, the same as in 2008. iReport.com: Spelman women discuss HIV and AIDS

In this report, Wilson and others urge the federal government and private foundations to significantly increase funding for HIV prevention and treatment programs. The report also calls on international agencies to hold the U.S. government accountable for failure to address HIV/AIDS epidemic in its own country (despite lauding it for its PEPFAR efforts). It also urges black communities in the United States to fight the stigma and overcome prejudice associated with being infected with HIV.

Well, no kidding. I’m actually surprised the 2009 budget includes that much money for prevention, since the entire REST OF THE WORLD learned all about this TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO. How come you guys didn’t get the memo? Not only has this boat sailed, it’s reached the other shore and been decommissioned. Oh, and that “as severe as parts of africa” bit is misleading too. Uganda and South Africa are two of the african countries with the LOWEST infection rate. Oh, and a generalized Fuck You to the Black AIDS Institute. We as a united nation poured billions into research, treatment, and prevention programs, for the benefit of everyone. How dare you go and play a race card by forming a separate-but-more-than-equal group just for the benefit of people with extra melanin?!?

I just saw a black woman on CNN boo-hooing this story. While the anchor (a black guy) did get her to admit that the whole thing would never have happened if black men were not in denial about their homosexuality and if they used responsible methods of birth control, her main complaint was that all the money for HIV/AIDS was for white folks. Except for the billions being spent by evil Booosh over in africa ... and why is he spending money there while ignoring the situation here? So it’s the government’s fault, and they should pony up more billions. Go away. Only the Obamessiah can save you now, and I’ll be damned if he does it with my money.

MORE !!

Anderson Cooper’s blog:

According to the report:

* There are more black Americans living with HIV than the total HIV populations in seven of the 15 countries receiving PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief).
* In areas such as Detroit, Washington D.C. and the Deep South, HIV rates among segments of the black community approach those of countries in Africa.
* If black America were its own country, it would rank 16th in people living with HIV; 105th in life expectancy and 88th in infant mortality worldwide.
* The U.S. response to its domestic epidemic is so weak that the country would fail to qualify for its own emergency AIDS relief program.

Pernessa Seele, who founded the group Balm in Gilea:
“The response to AIDS in Black America has been awful. The average American (black and white) can only relate to the devastating AIDS epidemic in Africa, with no clue of the horrendous suffering Black Americans are enduring right here at home. America’s response to AIDS in Africa has been billions of dollars more than its response to its black citizens at home.”

“The world has been very consumed with the devastation of AIDS in Africa. Great! However, there should be a worldwide out-cry that 1 in 20 persons living in Washington, DC, our nation’s capital, is living with the AIDS virus. Over 80% of these persons living with HIV in Washington, DC, are Black Americans.

The HIV prevalence rate in Washington, DC, (5%) is fast approaching the levels of infection in Uganda (5.4%). I don’t have time to go through the list of state after state that reflect the disproportionate rate of AIDS among blacks, such as Georgia where 70% of persons living with HIV in the state are Black Americans.

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which was just passed by Congress last week, will once again deliver billions of dollars to 15 nations to address HIV prevention and treatment. Once again, GREAT!

Sadly, the rate of HIV/AIDS in Black America ranks higher than seven of those foreign countries that will receive those PEPFAR dollars in the coming months. The seven countries that have less of an HIV positive population than Black America are: Guyana, Rwanda, Haiti, Namibia, Vietnam, Botswana, and Ethiopia. Listen! There is no outcry to the suffering of Black America!

The African-American faith community is beginning to understand its essential role in addressing HIV/AIDS in Black America. As in the days of my yester years, our churches were those points of light that offered education, compassion and service to America’s darker citizens when our government’s adequate response to our needs and concerns were essentially missing.”

Can’t read our magazines, can’t watch our TV channels, can’t attend our churches, can’t come out of the closet and have Gay Pride like everyone else did 2 decades or more ago. But they sure want my money! Next we’re going to hear that this is whitey’s fault for another reason: I’ll bet you dollars to donuts a huge HIV vector for them is prison. Didn’t we just hear a month or two back that one in four young black men was in jail? Or was it one in two either is/was or will be in jail? And guess what happens there? And you knows the whole jail thing is white oppression to keep the brothas down!!

But you know what? They’ll get the money. What the hell, they’re Americans too. It just irks the living shit out of me that they came so late to the party and they’re complaining they didn’t get an invite. That’s the bullshit I don’t want to hear any more of. No, you just got away with it for an extra 25 years by pretending. While the Sexual Revolution came to a panic stop for the rest of us. Fuck you very much!  And thanks to you a disease that was once a plague to the rest of us but had been reduced to fairly minor numbers is now double the size it was before.

Time for you white folks to have a major talk with your high school and college age kids, who are just sooooo eager to do anything to prove how unprejudiced they are. A very unsubtle talk. Ahem.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/29/2008 at 01:50 PM   
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