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Saturday, 16 November 2013
Blacks & HIV: Who’s Really To Blame?
Even though Blacks account for 14 percent of the population, they make up more than half of all new HIV infections.
Why?
After all these years, after all the studies, after all the PSAs, after all the information, it seems that we need to do a better job coming to terms with ourselves and why our community is still at risk.
Experts have even commented that many have difficulty embracing the concept of delayed gratification, which often leads to making riskier, more dangerous, and irresponsible choices.
However, changes in sexual behavior may only be part of the solution. Today’s HIV messages seem to insinuate that the reason blacks are still dealing with high HIV infection rates is because of sexual irresponsibility.
The Other Why’s…
As many policy makers are slowly realizing, behavior alone isn’t solely responsible for the current HIV crisis. The other factors include:
- Poverty
- Lower health literacy
- Drug use (particularly intravenous)
- Economic instability
- Poor access to health care
- Untreated STDs (which make people more vulnerable to contracting HIV)
- Mistrust in the medical system
- Gender inequality
- Homophobia
- Incarceration
But…it’s still important to realize that they do exist. And perhaps, with realization, comes change. And with change comes the societal cures that we really need, so that the black community doesn’t continue to fall victim to the health crises that, also, will not disappear overnight.
#blackdoctors.org
Detroit Limo Company Sends Racist Text To Black Woman
At age 25, Candis Doss (pictured), a black woman, says she has never experienced racism in her life. Well, there’s a first time for everything!
When Doss called a party limo bus rental to arrange a ride for her mom’s birthday, her call got dropped but what she received in return was a racist text message from the company, according to MyFox Detroit.
Doss was driving her car when she called the Detroit Limo Party Bus Company which she had found via a Craigslist booking agent. The young woman’s mom was celebrating a birthday and she had wanted to book a vehicle for a party. When Doss was inquiring about pricing for the stretch vehicles, her call suddenly dropped.
Not long after losing her connection, Doss received a text message that took her aback which stated the following:
“Why do black people always just hang up…Is it an inherited thing to be rude? or is it because you were slaves for so long?”
Doss expressed to Fox 2 News’ Amy Lange just how disappointed she was after encountering her first brush with racism. “It never happened to me, or somebody that was just close to me, where I could feel what they feel,” she said. “I feel what everybody feels now, I mean, it’s just like – when is it gonna stop?”
Fox 2 contacted the Detroit Limo Party Bus Company to see if they could get any answers as to how or why the text was sent to Doss. The company told the news outlet it would delve into the alleged matter further.
Meanwhile, something very good came out of Doss’ predicament: The Metro Party Bus company contacted the young woman and offered free transportation for her mom’s birthday celebration.
#newsone
WARNING!: Customers warned not to eat chocolate and nut ice cream cones from Tesco after painkillers were found in them
- The Food Standards Agency urges customers to return cones
- Tablets spotted in two Tesco own-brand chocolate and nut ice cream cones
- Supermarket is taking the four-packs off the shelves
Thousands of Tesco own-brand chocolate and nut ice cream cones are being recalled after painkilling drugs were found in two cones.
The Food Standards Agency is urging customers to return them to the store where you bought them for a full refund or contact Tesco customer services on 0800 50 55 55.
The supermarket is taking the four-packs off the shelves with sell-by dates up to and including July 2014.
The supplier which makes the cones for Tesco is R&R Ice Cream.
‘No other Tesco products are known to be affected.’
White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite wanted for SEVEN more murders including pastors
British fugitive Samantha Lewthwaite is wanted for seven murders in Kenya, including the executions of two radical Muslim clerics and two respected Protestant pastors, police yesterday revealed.
The White Widow, 29, has become a volatile maniac, leaving a trail of death and destruction in a bloody revenge campaign against those who cross her, security services believe.
She is said to have ordered the murders of four religious leaders in Kenya and three others linked to her al-Shabaab terror group.
Anti-terror police named the White Widow as number one suspect in the cowardly slaughter of Protestant pastors Charles Matole and Ebrahim Kidata.
They also believe she was behind the killings of radical Muslim clerics Aboud Rogo Mohammed and his successor Sheik Ibrahim Rogo after falling out with them.
Mr Matole, 41, was shot in the head at his church in Mombasa. He was found on October 19 sitting in a chair still clutching his bible.
Security sources believe he was executed after mum of four Lewthwaite, 29, became “paranoid” over his contacts with Kenyan intelligence officials.
Security services also believe the Nairobi mall massacre suspect has infuriated elders within al-Shabaab after demanding more control over its murderous activities and is locked in a power struggle.
An intelligence source said: “Samantha Lewthwaite is fighting for greater control of al-Shabaab which is angering the organisation’s hierarchy.
“She has become paranoid and unreliable to the group after being on the run for so long. They believe her judgment is clouded and she could find herself out on her own very soon.”
East Kenya police commander Aggrey Adoli said he feared Lewthwaite may be plotting even more bloodshed and had launched a huge drive to recruit young radical Muslims to her deadly cause.
Speaking of the seven murders being investigated, he said: “We believe Samantha Lewthwaite is behind these killings as well as a gang of others.
“We believe she is involved in recruitment of jihadists and propagation of al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda activities in the country with other like minded individuals. Once we apprehend Samantha Lewthwaite she’ll have a lot of questions to answer.
“She is without a doubt an incredible threat to national and international security.
"We are working round the clock to bring her in to stop her causing more carnage.”
The officer said she is wanted on charges of “murder and inciting Muslim youths to violence”.
Seven of Lewthwaite’s disciples, including a Tanzanian preacher, a Somali national, a Ugandan and three Kenyans, are also being hunted.
Mr Matole, known as Patrick to his congregation, was gunned down at the Redeemed Gospel Church with a single bullet.
He told friends he had received death threats in the weeks before he was killed after allegedly being approached by Kenyan security services.
It is thought they wanted him to inform them if any young Muslim men approached him for help to avoid being recruited by al-Shabaab.
A day before his murder, the body of newly-ordained preacher Mr Kidata, from the East African Pentecostal Churches, was found dumped in bushes at Kilifi, 40 miles from Mombasa. It is believed he had been strangled.
The White Widow, 29, has become a volatile maniac, leaving a trail of death and destruction in a bloody revenge campaign against those who cross her, security services believe.
She is said to have ordered the murders of four religious leaders in Kenya and three others linked to her al-Shabaab terror group.
Anti-terror police named the White Widow as number one suspect in the cowardly slaughter of Protestant pastors Charles Matole and Ebrahim Kidata.
They also believe she was behind the killings of radical Muslim clerics Aboud Rogo Mohammed and his successor Sheik Ibrahim Rogo after falling out with them.
Mr Matole, 41, was shot in the head at his church in Mombasa. He was found on October 19 sitting in a chair still clutching his bible.
Security sources believe he was executed after mum of four Lewthwaite, 29, became “paranoid” over his contacts with Kenyan intelligence officials.
Security services also believe the Nairobi mall massacre suspect has infuriated elders within al-Shabaab after demanding more control over its murderous activities and is locked in a power struggle.
An intelligence source said: “Samantha Lewthwaite is fighting for greater control of al-Shabaab which is angering the organisation’s hierarchy.
“She has become paranoid and unreliable to the group after being on the run for so long. They believe her judgment is clouded and she could find herself out on her own very soon.”
East Kenya police commander Aggrey Adoli said he feared Lewthwaite may be plotting even more bloodshed and had launched a huge drive to recruit young radical Muslims to her deadly cause.
Speaking of the seven murders being investigated, he said: “We believe Samantha Lewthwaite is behind these killings as well as a gang of others.
“We believe she is involved in recruitment of jihadists and propagation of al-Shabaab and al-Qaeda activities in the country with other like minded individuals. Once we apprehend Samantha Lewthwaite she’ll have a lot of questions to answer.
“She is without a doubt an incredible threat to national and international security.
"We are working round the clock to bring her in to stop her causing more carnage.”
The officer said she is wanted on charges of “murder and inciting Muslim youths to violence”.
Seven of Lewthwaite’s disciples, including a Tanzanian preacher, a Somali national, a Ugandan and three Kenyans, are also being hunted.
Mr Matole, known as Patrick to his congregation, was gunned down at the Redeemed Gospel Church with a single bullet.
He told friends he had received death threats in the weeks before he was killed after allegedly being approached by Kenyan security services.
It is thought they wanted him to inform them if any young Muslim men approached him for help to avoid being recruited by al-Shabaab.
A day before his murder, the body of newly-ordained preacher Mr Kidata, from the East African Pentecostal Churches, was found dumped in bushes at Kilifi, 40 miles from Mombasa. It is believed he had been strangled.
#mirror.co.uk
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