Some people tried to tell me that AIDS is actually discriminatory towards poor people, not their ethnicity.
(I think it is a matter of choices people make [with some exceptions of course])
Could you explain these numbers if poverty is the target for AIDS contraction:
4.3 million American Indians in U.S. in 2003
36.4 million Blacks in U.S. in 2003
In 2002 (don't whine about the year difference) :
Estimated numbers of diagnosed cases of HIV/AIDS, by race/ethnicity:
White: 8,347
Black: 14,398
A-Indian 168
Multiply the American Indians by 9, to get a comparative figrure with Blacks: 1,512
Which means, Blacks have a rate of nearly 10 times that of American Indians, the most impoverished race in the country.
Also, Blacks make up 12% of the population, yet nearly double the rate of Whites regarding AIDS contraction. Are we to assume that there is not a large portion of impovershed Whites in this country?
2007-06-28
17:44:26
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