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random fact, the CCHILLS theater has an awesome lineup of great old school r&b and neo soul acts. they also offer free AIDS tests, and you get a fun shopping bag that you can reuse while picking up items. what a double whammy of positivity! how’s about no one was frequenting the AIDS table. we want to ignore this like its not a stark reality, not gonna work folks! i made my cousin take a test and he said, “man i ain’ even wanna do all this. u ruined my night” after we got tested he never went back for his results, i am PROUD to say that i don’t have the AIDS and i’m a-ok! him? well let’s just pray his penis doesn’t fall off…

GET IT TOGETHER brothas and sistas.

The closeted lifestyle that these people live is to blame. Im sorry boys but if you are DL you aint butch or tough, your cowards and just plain weak. Come out and practice safe sex with who you want to be with, not a quicky at the train station catch something and bring it home to your wife or gf. That’s just lame.

* Legacy Slave Mentality: During slavery in the United States, the most valuable contribution a black female slave could make to society was via the vagina between her legs and the womb in her stomach. Her vagina could be used to provide pleasure (often to white slave masters) and her womb could make more slaves. Women were often used to breed with multiple physically superior black men (”bucks”) to produce strong children who would become strong slaves. This tendency to have multiple sexual partners has, in many ways, been passed on to black women today.
* Poverty: For multiple reasons (the legacy of slavery and racism being a big one), many black people live in poverty. People in poverty cannot afford to do things that people with money do to entertain themselves: travel, play golf, watch an opera, etc. However, one form of entertainment that has a very low price tag is sexual activity. Couple this with my first point, and you have a lot of poor people having sex with multiple partners. Therefore, people in poverty (again, many of whom are black) have a higher rate of unplanned pregnancies as well as the other outcome of such behavior: sexually transmitted diseases.
* Strained Black Male/Female Relationships: The relationships between black men and women in this country has almost always been strained. Black families were often torn apart during slavery which seriously damaged the fundamental part of any ethnic group. Today, many black women are doing better than their black male counterparts in terms of education and income. This causes black men to often resent black women and compensate by being overly domineering. Therefore, black men may insist on sexual activity without condoms and threaten to leave the relationship if this demand is not men. Black women may feel that they have to give in to these demands in order to keep the man.
* Lack of Education: Along with poverty comes a lack of access to educational resources. Despite the plethora of information about HIV and AIDS, many black people know very little about it. In fact, some black people think that AIDS has been cured since Magic Johnson (who famously admitted to being infected) is still alive and looking well.

These factors (and many more) make black women extremely vulnerable to HIV infection.