Comments on: The South's Silent Epidemic

African-Americans Make Up Well Over Half Of HIV/AIDS Cases In Much Of The Rural South

[credibility2]

There''s absolutely no reason or excuse for anyone this day and age to get HIV/AIDS. There''s plenty of information and medical help available, even to the so-called poor and indigent. It''s stupid selfishness and carelessness that leads to getting this totally preventable disease. Either say no or wear protection.

[cbsblogger]

If you get AIDs today it is your own fault, just as is getting lung cancer from smoking.

The word has been out there for years about the hazzards and the public at large shouldn''t be required to pay and care for those who are too stupid to use common sense.

Let the gene weeding out process take care of it.

"If we could get more funding into the South, it would alleviate the problem," said Katherine Heirs of the Southern AIDS Coalition.
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It would depend on where it was deposited.

[deepperppl]

Is this all about shame? Can''t we also say it''s about stupidity or hardheadedness? There is a point where your pride becomes a danger to your very own life. When will it hit these men living on the DL that all they are doing is ruining themselves, and not the Man who brought them the AIDS virus in the first place? Just kidding. AIDS began in Africa. The monkeys that poachers were killing had a virus that carried over to humans, like the chicken flu is expected to do. I just don''t want the South to be the New Africa. Someone has to talk some sense into these guys! (Throwing money at a problem doesn''t work, LOL. If that were the case, Louisiana''s Katrina victims wouldn''t still be having problems - no offense to those who actually handled the money they got responsibly.)

[gatofeo]

"If we could get more funding into the South, it would alleviate the problem," said Katherine Heirs of the Southern AIDS Coalition ...

Typical.
"Throw enough money at a problem and it will go away," has been the thought for more than 30 years.
Black culture in America celebrates promiscuity and a macho ethic that dismisses the consequences of one''s actions.
The problem isn''t lack of money, it''s lack of personal responsibility.
Black leaders need to chastise rap and hip-hop for its degradation of women as Hos, anti-education and "get the money any way you can," attitudes.
For 25 years we''ve been told, through public service announcements and public institutions to practice safe *** and don''t share needles. And for all those years, the black population has largely ignored these warnings.
I have no sympathy for those who ignore these warnings.
If you tell a man, "Don''t stick your finger in that bottle of acid," and he does it anyway, are you supposed to feel sympathy?
Heck no.
Black leaders, if they truly are leaders and not just TV camera opportunists, need to chastise their own people for a number of failings: AIDS, crime, dropping out of school, abandoning families, etc.
Bill Cosby did it about 10 years ago and was booed for speaking the truth. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton quietly sat on stage next to him and never said a word.
Some leadership!

[tcoleman12]

You have to be kidding me that there is a "lack of awareness" out there... I do, however, believe that they nailed it with their "lack of personal accountability".
Also, you guys blaming the Bush Administration are missing the boat on this one. Bush has allocated more money during his presidency towards AIDS research and programs than any previous president...ya boy Clinton included.

[gheemaster38]

Why is it when there is a terrible disease the first thing that is said, "It is dominate in the black community" but yet when you visit the medical wards you see mostly whites? Be it Cancer, Hepititus, Influenza, Ashtma, HIV, AIDS, etc. Why is it that on one hand the media can report that a high percentage of the "Black" race has this illness, but almost in the same breath they report, that the ones infected doesn''t register at hospitals and lives with the virus unknowingly? How would these "experts" know if the person is not registered or tested? Either someone has a keen pyschic ability or they are misleading people into a false since of security. My advice would be to visit these wards for yourself and determine what the truth is.

[cyberdjs4]

Here''s further proof that God is not in control of anything.

Nature controls ALL and your worship is not necessary.

[gunfighter51]

CBS,
I think it''s time to move this over to the Huffington Post, your not getting much sympathy here.

[barbaraf4]

"What - someone really expects the Bush administration to care about this?" Posted by shado269
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Why should Bush administration care about this when the people involved don''t care enough to act? Their leaders should get off of their behinds and get a community action plan. It will have to be a grassroots effort, because no one else cares more than you should care about your own community.

If Jesse Jackson and the Black Clergy would stop preaching hatred of the whites and start preaching safe se*x, it would be a good start. It is not the fault of the US or the white population. It is the fault of apathy and depression.