TODAY IS WORLD AIDS DAY, REP YOUR (RED)
Friday, December 1, 2006

Since it’s World AIDS day, I decided to post up some stats and info about this horrible disease and how it’s destroying the black community and the world.
- The HIV/AIDS infection rate among black men is 6 times that of white men and the rate among black women is 16 times that of white women.
- AIDS is the leading cause of death for black women
- AIDS now accounts for 1 in 3 deaths among black men aged 25 to 40
- More children with AIDS are black than all other racial and ethnic groups combined
- Every day in the United States, about 100 people of color become infected with HIV
- More than two-thirds of all women in the United States who are infected with the AIDS virus are black
- Blacks represent over half (57%) of all new AIDS cases in the United States, though comprising less than a quarter (13%) of the population
- AIDS is the leading cause of death of blacks, age 25-44
*Source: HIV/AIDS Facts, Black Coalition on AIDS (BCA)






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226.
first time
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
well y’all have a good weekend. i’m out.
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TISha
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
LIES!!! LIES!!! THESE STATISTICS ARE SET BY WHITE PEOPLE TO MAKE AIDS “THE BLACK PEOPLE’S DISEASE”. I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT 57% OF NEW CASES ARE BLACK AMERICANS, AND IT’S THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG BLACK WOMEN. AND WE AS BLACK PEOPLE BELIEVE THESE BLANTANT LIES SET BY THE GOV’T TO DESTROY BLACK PEOPLE. DON’T GET ME WRONG, YES SOME BLACK PEOPLE DO SUFFER FROM THE DISEASE. BUT TO SAY MORE THAN HALF OF THE BLACK POPULATION IS AT RISK IS A TOTAL FABRICATION. THESE STATISTICS ARE BASED ON “STATUS QUO”, MEANING IF BLACKS MAKE UP “13%” OF THE POPULATION AND 100 BLACKS ARE INFECTED, AND WHITES WHO MAKE UP 65% OF THE POPULATION, AND SAY 100 WHITES ARE INFECTED, THEREFORE IT WILL BE SAID THAT BLACKS ARE AT A HIGHER RATE OF HAVING THE DISEASE DUE TO THE SMALLER POPUALTION PERCENTAGE OF BLACKS. BUT IF YOU WERE TO EVEN IT OUT, MORE WHITES ARE INFECTED W/ AIDS THAN BLACKS OR NON-WHITES BUT DON’T SUFFER AS MORE THAN BLACKS/NON-WHITES BECAUSE THEY CAN AFFORD THE MEDICATION. SO DON’T BELIEVE THIS SH!T THAT IT’S A BLACK DISEASE….BECAUSE IT’S NOT!!! BUT AT THE same TOKEN DO PROTECT YOURSELF.
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TISha
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
LIES!!! LIES!!! THESE STATISTICS ARE SET BY WHITE PEOPLE TO MAKE AIDS “THE BLACK PEOPLE’S DISEASE”. I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE THAT 57% OF NEW CASES ARE BLACK AMERICANS, AND IT’S THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG BLACK WOMEN. AND WE AS BLACK PEOPLE BELIEVE THESE BLANTANT LIES SET BY THE GOV’T TO DESTROY BLACK PEOPLE. DON’T GET ME WRONG, YES SOME BLACK PEOPLE DO SUFFER FROM THE DISEASE. BUT TO SAY MORE THAN HALF OF THE BLACK POPULATION IS AT RISK IS A TOTAL FABRICATION. THESE STATISTICS ARE BASED ON “STATUS QUO”, MEANING IF BLACKS MAKE UP “13%” OF THE POPULATION AND 100 BLACKS ARE INFECTED, AND WHITES WHO MAKE UP 65% OF THE POPULATION, AND SAY 100 WHITES ARE INFECTED, THEREFORE IT WILL BE SAID THAT BLACKS ARE AT A HIGHER RATE OF HAVING THE DISEASE DUE TO THE SMALLER POPUALTION PERCENTAGE OF BLACKS. BUT IF YOU WERE TO EVEN IT OUT, MORE WHITES ARE INFECTED W/ AIDS THAN BLACKS OR NON-WHITES BUT DON’T SUFFER AS MORE THAN BLACKS/NON-WHITES BECAUSE THEY CAN AFFORD THE MEDICATION. SO DON’T BELIEVE THIS SH!T THAT IT’S A BLACK DISEASE….BECAUSE IT’S NOT!!! BUT AT THE same TOKEN DO PROTECT YOURSELF.
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Natasha
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
I wore my red outfit 2day. And the thing that kills me is that people think AIDS is this image on TV. That can never affect them, but if you think that you’re crazy. And the problem is not only that people are uneducated or they think it can’t happen to them. But people are scared to get tested because they don’t wanna find out they have AIDS, and when they do get tested they don’t tell anyone their status because they’re too ashamed.
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Love gossip
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
EVERYONE SHOULD PROTECT THEMSELVES WHILE HAVING SEX, PERIOD! I’M A MARRIED WOMAN WHO DOESN’T USE PROTECTION, FOR I TRUST MY HUSBAND COMPLETLY. HOWEVER IF THERE’S ANY MARRIED WOMAN OUT THERE WHO HAS DOUBTS OR KNOW THAT THEIR HUSBAND IS BEIG UNFAITHFUL, USE PEROTECTION AND GET TESTED. I’VE BEEN MARRIED FOR 4 YEARS NOW AND I STILL GET TESTED ONCE A YEAR. EVEN THOUGH I MAY TRUST HIM, I AM NOT GOD SO I DONT KNOW EVERYTHING… JUST MAKE SURE YOU SPEAK TO YOUR SPOUSE ABOUT IT AND GET TESTED NO MATTER WHAT.
231.
Oh no she didn't...Oh yes she did!
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
Mannn two people passed away in my family within a year apart of each other. They were my uncle and my (female) cousin. My uncle was my heart, my everything…
See you when I get there Uncle Tommy 1959-2006.
(Btw, no my uncle was not gay, he contarcted it from his triflin ass ex girlfriend who had it for YEARS and did not tell him!)
Let me get up off of this post, I am getting in my feelings.
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sesamestreet
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
And those stats are exactly why I remain a virgin!! Yeah wrapping it up is good, but NOT HAVIING SEX AT ALL IS BETTER…WAIT TILL YOU’RE MARRIED!
PS.
Whomever I marry will be getting an AIDS test before we walk down the isle, and before the Honeymoon.
233.
tianni
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
I was tested 3 weeks ago, my status is NEGATIVE. It is good to get checked on a regular basis PEOPLE (males & females)! GO GET TESTED EVERY BODY!
My cousin, she passed away about 7 years ago from AIDS. I admire her strength because despite her struggle with AIDS she stayed at the hospital day & night tending to her 12 year old son who suffered with CANCER of the nervous system. Sadly he passed away at the age of 13 shortly after she passed away.
& about 10 years prior to that I lost a good friend of mines to AIDS as well, I miss KEVIN to this day.
So I am sure we all have known or known of someone who has been stricken with this DEADLY VIRUS/DISEASE.
STRAP IT UP FELLAS! (AIDS/HIV does not discriminate, some of the most attractive people walking the earth can be carrying this disease in their system. REMEMBER THAT).
234.
Beyonce's Breath
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
I got tested 2x this year. I am straight.
235.
Beyonce's Breath
Friday, December 1, 2006 /
Did Beyonce make sure Jay-z got tested before she fucked Jay-z? I wouln’t fuck him even if he wore 2 condoms.
236.
PrettyGirl86
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
I think more ppl 10 years from now will take HIV/AIDS more seriously when unfortunatly, they see their friends dying from it.
Alot ppl my age, early 20’s, still don’t believe they can contract it… Life is worth so much more.
May God Bless!!
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sweetgurl
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
Thank for the information!! Didn’t know some of it!! But one thing I should say is that us black people should accepted black gay men in our community whether we think it right or wrong!!
Because we tend to reject them in our community as a result they will act straight and sleep with our women to be accepted in our community!! They tend to be called names, abused physically by us black people, this is not just happening in U.S but also United Kingdom!!
So if us black people want to reduce the numbers of people being infected, we should first accept black gays in our community. What I mean by this is by not putting them down, calling names, neglecting them and physically abusing them etc.
This is just as similar as back in the days where people were scared to admit that they were committing adultery, having sex before marriage because those were not accepted in those days. Now black gays are scared to admit that they are gay because we tend to see black men as being straight not accepted them in our society!!
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Siobhan
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
#263 - Amen. The black community needs to be more accepting towards gay black men (and women). If there was more acceptance then perhaps black men wouldn’t feel the need to hide their sexuality by sleeping with men and women (when all they really want to do is sleep with men) thereby possibly contracting some disease and passing it on to others.
However, it’s not just a gay disease anymore. More and more straight people are contracting the disease because they think they can’t get it. We need more awareness. In this day and age, the type of ignorance displayed by our young people is intolerable and unforgiveable. There is a wealth of information out there and available to all. We just need to open our minds.
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WHITE POWER
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
YOU FUCKING DIRTY NIGGERS ARE SPREADING AIDS!!!! GO BACK TO AFRICA!!!!
240.
jscene
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
GHEESH, PLEASE GET REAL!!!!
Everybody is aware aids exist and everybody knows how to protect themselves against this virus. So instead of passing around ribbons, why didn’t they pass around condoms perhaps. Sorry, but passing around leaflets and wearing stickers and ribbons is stupid to me, all in the name of aids awareness. Dammit, we are aware, we’re aware, now what are we ACTUALLY GOING TO DO ABOUT IT! I hate when groups do dumb shit to say they are doing something, but take the bandaid approach to attacking the problem. Passing out and wearing ribbons isn’t going to help any of us at the end of the day - this was a good approach 20 years ago when aids info was still virtually unknown and people didn’t know much about the disease. Today, wearing ribbons for AWARENESS sake is futile. Please, actually do something, don’t pass out dumb shit and say you’re helping the aids cause. Like i said, they should have passed out condoms, maybe THAT would have actually saved someones life last night who was too cheap to go buy a condom. I doubt if that ribbon protected anyone or helped anyone last night. We give money each year to causes like AIDS Foundation, and they waste our damn money and use it to print and have ribbons made to say they’ve done something. It’s frustrating.
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qtfromok
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
UHHH! PRAY FOR WHITE POWER, DON’T EVEN WASTE YOUR ENERGY ON THAT NEGATIVE BS HE’S TALKING ABOUT. A TOPIC SO SAD BUT HAS BEEN SO POSITIVE SEEING AS THERE WASN’T EVEN ONE ARGUMENT, PLAY LIKE HE DOESN’T EVEN EXIST, OR JUST PRAY FOR HIM.
@WHITE POWER, SWEETIE HOW ARE YOU TODAY? I JUST PRAY GOD CAN TOUCH YOUR HEART AND YOUR MIND, BECAUSE YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY DELUSIONAL. HE CAN HEAL MINDS TOO, ACCEPT HIM IN YOUR HEART AND GET A LIFE.
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NetworKing
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
@239, I agree, on top of that. Not trying to be funny but they need to hand out larger condoms as large as Magnum XL. Like women who were larger bras, some men (like me) need larger condoms. This might be a little a personal, but lets put it out there. In college you can get free condoms at the health center. I’d have better luck wearing those on my thumb then the purpose it’s needed for. I’m not going to lie, I hated wearing condoms cuz they were really hard to put on and way too tight, but I realized maybe I should get a larger condom. What a differnce that made!
I only say this because we talk about sex ed, but we don’t talk about other things. Men, if your condoms are too tight, you may need a larger one.
243.
NetworKing
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
@ qtfromok we would of ignored him anyway, you shouldn’t of acklowledged him either.
244.
qtfromok
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
@Networking - That’s true
@jscene - very good point, I never looked at it like that but it’s the truth. Hopefully your idea will take place in the near future.
245.
darnell
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
Dear Amaya,Uptowngirl …… please don’t misread my statement as women bashing . I was raised in a home with 5 older sistas . I have a great deal of love and respect for black women . Just made an obsevation,that’s all ! For example women who have thug fetishes . If a dude spent more than 6months in prison they have more than likely had sexual relations with a man . But when they come out . They usaully got a roof over there head . And it ain’t there mommas house . Pretty boy , ubersexual whatever you wan’t to call them . Tell me when having female tendacies became desirable . Arched eye browls is and should be a read flag . And now you combine the two ….pretty boy thugs ! GO ladies !All I’m saying for people,especially ladies . Stop acting like it some DL covert ops attacking the black community . Alot of the signs are very seeable !!!!! AND STRAIGHT MALE AND FEMALES . WE NEED TO CLEAR OUR CLOSET,CAN’T KEEP BLAMING A INFOTRACTION OF GAYS AND BI FOR EVER !
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777-9311
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
Good morning Loopers. HEY NETWORKING, you still mad at me? I hope not. I love you for your real comment. What you said about condoms is really true.
i have been reading this post since yesterday and am really still so touched and nearly speechless.
thanks for sharing ya’ll. and though i don’t have any personal testimonies about this disease. i clearly see how fighting this disease is just as much my responsibility (especially as a teacher in a predominately black high school) as it is anybody else’s. be blessed and be safe ya’ll.
love 777-9311
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sesamestreet
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
*Claps* Jscene if that ain’t the truth I don’t know what is. I could never understand the purpose of the AIDS ribbon in this day and age. Hell sex period is not worth your life. Someone stated if you are under 18 don’t have sex, I say if you’re not married don’t have sex IMO it’s irresponsible!! Half of the people out here who are having sex are irresponsible underage children. I say if you’re not responsible enough to take care of a husband, and children, and run a household then you shouldn’t be fornicating. It’s a sin anyway. Majority of people always want to preach about how they believe in GOD, and they’re saved but they don’t follow what GOD says!! We would have a lot less AIDS going around in the African American communities, if people would practice what they preached, and actually followed their Bible.
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darnell
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
219# YOU SAID MEN ARE MORE SUPERFICIAL ? DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH . AS I SAID IN MY EARLIER POST . ALL WOMEN WANT ALPHA MALES ,EVEN THE OMEGA WOMEN . AND THE KICKER IS YOU’LL THINK YOU DESERVE THAT DUDE . MOST MEN MIGHT LUST AFTER HALLE BERRY OR LISA RAYE …. BUT WE KNOW THAT’S A FANTASY ! THIS WILL PROVE WOMEN ARE MORE SUPERFICIAL . GO TO THE AVERAGE STRIP CLUB THAT MEN FREQUENT . YOU’LL SEE WOMEN OF ALL SHAPES AN SIZES . DARK TO LIGHT ! GETTING MONEY , SOME MORE THAN OTHER . BUT ALL GETTING IT NEITHER THE LESS . NOW GO TO A MALE REVEIW . BIG HUSKY LOU FERRIGNOU ASS NIGGAS WITH 9 INCHES OR MORE . ALL PRETTY MUCH CLONES OF THE NEXT NIGGA . GIVE OR TAKE LITTLE DIFFERENCES …. A DUDE WITH AVERAGE BUILD OR LENGTH(6 TO 7 IS MEDICAL AVERAGE). WOULD PROBABLY BE LAUGHED OFF STAGE WITHOUT A DOLLA IN HIS G-STRING …. POINT MADE ! LOVE MY BLACK QUEEN NEVER THE LESS !!!!!
249.
Beyonce's Breath
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
@239 ***Applauds!***
250.
Beyonce's Breath
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
@#51 Regarding your comment that the red ribbon is only supporting Africa’s Aids problems. Aids is Aids. Who the fuck cares? Stop splitting hairs here.
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Xander
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
I hope all the latino and black brothers admit to being gay and stop lying on the d.l. I mean most of them are scared that thugs will intemidate them an hurt them but I don’t see a reason to if their thugs themselves! The thugs that intemidate them are more than likely gay as well!
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Slovely
Saturday, December 2, 2006 /
WHITE POWER said:
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YOU FUCKING DIRTY NIGGERS ARE SPREADING AIDS!!!! GO BACK TO AFRICA!!!!
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Um, you whites were the first to have aids, went to africa and raped those women, came back here and kept things on the dl. F***** dudes in porno theaters. You people swear you know what your talking about. What idiots!
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NetworKing
Sunday, December 3, 2006 /
777-9311, I aint mad at you! I had applogized in the other Kramer post but it got high as hell on that one too. on CL you can be enemies on one post and best friends on the other! No hard feelings here! lol!
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kmniles
Sunday, December 3, 2006 /
I am glad to see that this post got an overwhelming response. The one thing that dissapoints me is this whole DL phenom and it’s automatic association with men. It has really taken off after “McMillian-gate” and I want all ladies to know that it’s not just the men that needs to be truthful, but also the women. In this day lesbianism is being practiced by tons of women because it is the in thing and chic. How many women out there are doing DL things and bringing things to there husbands? Too much emphasis is spent hating on the men, but it can and does happen the other way around. Remember that. Women…stop choosing these thugs that have been incarcerated for sexual partners. i know you want a roughneck, but you stand a higher probablility of contracting this disease dealing with thugs than nerds.
Men…be honest with your women. If you are bisexual, disclose it and get tested.
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Zai
Monday, December 4, 2006 /
Hi my name is Zai, I’m 15 years old and I’m from Vyners School. I’ve read almost every single one of those comments. These comments have helped me in a way to make my ‘Aids Awareness Movie’ for my school which might be presented in my school assembly.
Reading these comments made me feel that we should really take care of ourselves and not going around and finding a cute guy or cute girl and just have sex with them, because they are the one’s that might be infected by HIV/AIDS.
I must say I feel really sorry for all the people out there nowing that they have HIV/AIDS, it must have been a real shock to find out that they are affected or infected by HIV/AIDS.
In my school, we’ve been selling the ‘Red Ribbons’ and we are actually getting a lot of money out of it to help the one’s that are infected by HIV/AIDS.
“AIDS IS REAL”
Aids Is Danger
Aids Is Stranger
Know Your Worth
Recreate Your Thought
Guard Your Life
Change Your Style
Mould Your Ways
Amend Your Perception
Receive Orientation
Emotions Are Real
Watch The Feel
Close The Seal
Make A Deal
Test Your Blood Aids Is Real
256.
Zai
Monday, December 4, 2006 /
Hi my name is Zai, I’m 15 years old and I’m from Vyners School. I’ve read almost every single one of those comments. These comments have helped me in a way to make my ‘Aids Awareness Movie’ for my school which might be presented in my school assembly.
Reading these comments made me feel that we should really take care of ourselves and not going around and finding a cute guy or cute girl and just have sex with them, because they are the ones that might be infected by HIV/AIDS.
I must say I feel really sorry for all the people out there knowing that they have HIV/AIDS, it must have been a real shock to find out that they are affected or infected by HIV/AIDS.
In my school, we’ve been selling the ‘Red Ribbons’ and we are actually getting a lot of money out of it to help the one’s that are infected by HIV/AIDS.
“AIDS IS REAL”
Aids Is Danger
Aids Is Stranger
Know Your Worth
Recreate Your Thought
Guard Your Life
Change Your Style
Mould Your Ways
Amend Your Perception
Receive Orientation
Emotions Are Real
Watch The Feel
Close The Seal
Make A Deal
Test Your Blood Aids Is Real
257.
Meatloaf
Monday, December 4, 2006 /
#198 @ms_mac said: “…I sincerely hope that the same people that are offering you support today will be the same people that are open-minded when and if we have future discussions about sexuality/sex preferences, AIDS and the state of Blacks in America.”
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If we have future discussions, I will continue to direct lost souls to Jesus without compromise! And, if they are willing and ready like “Be Safe”, I will do in in the spirit of salvation! But, if you, Mya or Pity think I’m gonna support your gay rights cause…well you can save yourself some breath and time!
I’m not sugarcoating my stans for Pity, anymore than I did for “Be Safe”! Be Safe had over twenty people praying for him on Friday! And, those prayers were not just for his healing, but for his deliverance from the lifestyle that preceeded his condidtion. He knows that the conditions is secondary to his relationship and getting right with God!
Sorry ms_mac, that was nice try, but no cigar! hehe!
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Green
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 /
Hi Sam! Photos i send on e-mail.
Green
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