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Originally Posted by tristanrobin no - it is primarily a BLACK disease - in Africa, it's a black heterosexual disease - in American it's a black gay disease - what do they have in common? race - not sexual orientation | Really? In American it's becoming a black gay disease, it's still a pretty good number of white gay and hispanic gay and asian gay people getting it. Contraction etiology favors anal sex. Lesbians rarely catch it. And men have to work hard to catch it from women. Race is not a factor. Type of sex, and partner are the highest risk factors.
Africa, that one continent, might have it's own issues. But since we know that the rates of infection differ by country, who knows what behavior is causing that disparity. I have heard of men having sex with young children as a "cure". Stuff like that would be quite different than here in the U.S. Quote: |
it's not poverty. blacks make up 50% of the crime statistics in the U.S. - yet they only represent 13+% of the population. There are many who would say that when blacks were 'quarantined' in their own 'sections' of towns, the crime rate was much much lower than now.
| Nope, it's a poverty issue. Poor people commit the most crime for all races. Hispanic, Asian and white. Poverty and Crime Rates Longitudinal studies have revealed that children who live in poverty, especially in concentrated areas of disadvantage, are more likely to engage in criminal activity later in life.
Poverty in black households can be linked to single parent families, and many other issues that are slowly starting to affect white families as well. Crime is not limited to black people, we just are out proportion. Like the HIV and gay men vs the rest of the population. Quote: |
I go with my original statement - when it comes to minorities, blacks are much more damaging to the social fabric of our society than gays.
| And I further your statement and say that "men" are more damaging since 90% of crime is committed by men. That's a much more compelling statistic. Even if you got rid of black people crime would only half. But getting rid of "men" would create a utopia. Quote: |
don't take it personally - I'm sure you're one of the minority of your community who isn't a criminal.
| I take nothing personal. I'm not poor, gay, have AIDS, or have kids out of wedlock. I am black, but there's nothing that "being black" has anything to do with. Cept being called Black. Which I am. This is my new signature.
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