WEB POSTED 06-18-2001

"AID" DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN "HELP"!

Anyone dumb enough to think that the current world-wide AIDS problem "just happened" needs something done to them that I cannot describe in a family oriented newspaper. Think back on your History classes, and some movies, years ago, wherein White America admitted pretending to be friends to the original inhabitants of America, now called "Indians", and giving them blankets which turned out to be infected with deadly diseases, such as Smallpox. The newly-arrived Europeans had a plan for progress which did not include the survival of the original inhabitants of this land. They did not institute this plan for mass murder, however, until the Native Americans had taught them how to survive in this land, and were, therefore, of no more use to the invaders.

If you think that these people, and their descendants, have any more love for their Black ex-slaves than they do for the Red legitimate owners of this land, you might as well stop reading now, because it will be impossible for you to understand the rest of this column with your minus IQ. Also, if you consider AIDS a "Black disease", you are totally uninformed. An advertising supplement which appeared in the April 22 edition of the NEW YORK TIMES states:"During the last two decades, the AIDS epidemic in this country has expanded. No longer confined to white gay men, the disease now affects a more diverse population. In 1998, African-Americans and Latinos represented 56 percent of AIDS cases among men and 78 percent among women, according to CDC (Center for Disease Control)." THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, June 1 Edition, agrees:"The problem is urgent among young, gay African-American men, 15 percent of whom are being newly infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, each year � a rate six times greater than the figure among gays who are white, according to a new survey." In January of this year a newspaper in Sumter County, Georgia stated, "AIDS is the leading cause of death for African American men and women ages 20-44 in Georgia."

Meanwhile, the LOS ANGELES TIMES reports that, "A Libyan prosecutor is seeking the death penalty against the five nurses and one doctor who are charged with intentionally infecting 393 children with HIV at a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi." Meanwhile, THE BOSTON GLOBE quotes Libyan Leader Muammar Gadhafi as accusing the CIA of planting the AIDS virus in Africa.

"Who made the AIDS virus?" he asked. "Some say it�s from monkeys in Africa. Those monkeys have been here for centuries. How can it appear now?"

Reportedly, around 40,000 new cases of AIDS pop up each year in America, according to U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT. The magazine further points out that The Food and Drug Administration approved the first blood test for HIV, and the first international AIDS conference took place in Atlanta � after Actor Rock Hudson died of AIDS. The same magazine makes the point that, "At first the disease seemed to strike only the �four H�s�: homosexuals, Haitians, hemophiliacs, and heroin users."

The term most commonly used to describe the onward march of the deadly disease is "RELENTLESS"!