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I'm not going to immediately conjecture the causes of STI transmission rates in SoCal, because I'm not an expert on STI epidemiology. And neither are you.
Then lets consider what the LA times offers as contributing factors to the problem:
-Refusal to use condoms, despite free condoms being available
- Higher number of random hookups from sites and apps that specialize in random sexual encounters
- Less likely to seek treatment and follow through with treatment
OR.....we can just blame everything on racism
I personally think the LA Times and these researchers sound absurd to suggest that racism is to blame for rising STD rates among minorities, when they've already said refusal to wear condoms, limiting the number of sexual partners, and seeking treatment are factors. What do you think?
You sure do like to cherry-pick, don't you? Maybe you should study the bigger picture:
https://www.livescience.com/48100-sexually-transmitted-infections-50-states-map.html
LA Times is a liberal rag.
I don't suppose you have an explanation for why some minority ethnic groups who come to the US in a poverty stricken state work their way out of it, while others don't seem to be able to.
The budget for LA Unified School District is $7,590,000,000 for this year. If kids in LA county aren't learning, it has nothing to do with money issues.
You've got to kidding me here. 'Racist white people' aren't doing enough? That is pure garbage.
Education does not ensure responsible behavior. I grew up in the California public school system, and had sex education classes in 5th grade, 8th grade, and in high school.
If you're seriously going to suggest that non-white students in California don't know what a condom is, I'd suggest that you're the one who is positing racism here.
You are guilty of a misdemeanor for giving an innocent person a life changing, life long, constant treatment illness.
Gov. moonbeam should be strung up by the nuts.
He doesn't have any nuts.......... he just is nuts; that's the difference.
BTW; isn't blaming increased STD's on racism a racist comment?
Not only that but the fact that African immigrants make something like 30% more than US born black Americans throws a wrench into the whole systemic racism holding down the black man theory.
Education is a major factor but there are 2 key issues facing the black community. The first is from within, a black student who tries to put forth effort into learning is ostracized as "acting white" by his peers. The second is having schools locked to your address, a parent shouldn't be locked into the worst school district simply because they can't afford to live in a nicer district. Addressing these 2 issues would greatly benefit African Americans, especially those who feel as if they are locked into a cycle of poverty.
Separate and Still Unequal
In 90 of the largest 95 U.S. cities, more students of color than whites attend school with mostly poor or low-income peers.
In a modern-day tale of two cities, in virtually every major U.S. metropolitan area students of color are much more likely than whites to attend public schools shaped by high concentrations of poverty, an analysis of federal data has found.
In all but five of the 95 largest cities by population for which data is available, more minority than white students attend public schools where most of their classmates qualify as poor or low-income, according to the analysis of data from the National Equity Atlas. In a full three-fourths of cities, the share of minority students attending mostly poor or low-income schools is at least 20 percentage points greater than the share of white students. In 29 of the cities, the gap is at least 40 percentage points.
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“Here we are, 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education and our schools are woefully separate and unequal, and in many cases we're actually going backward from where we were,” said Brad Lander, a member of the New York City Council. “I think we've been painfully blind to the problem.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/separate-still-unequal/471720/
These are the same kind of folks who sat complacent after Dishonest Abe "emancipated" Blacks and the USSC instituted "Separate But Equal". The US is deeply racist. Not exactly the same kind of virulent, vicious racism practiced from its terrorist origins but a pervasive, society wide racism none the less.
These are the same kind of folks who sat complacent after Dishonest Abe "emancipated" Blacks and the USSC instituted "Separate But Equal". The US is deeply racist. Not exactly the same kind of virulent, vicious racism practiced from its terrorist origins but a pervasive, society wide racism none the less.
Also, you do realize Jefferson was against slavery and tried to push legislation to end it right?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/founding-fathers-and-slaveholders-72262393/
Jefferson, like all slaveholders and many other white members of American society, regarded Negroes as inferior, childlike, untrustworthy and, of course, as property. Jefferson, the genius of politics, could see no way for African-Americans to live in society as free people. He embraced the worst forms of racism to justify slavery.
In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson describes the institution of slavery as forcing tyranny and depravity on master and slave alike. To be a slaveholder meant one had to believe that the worst white man was better than the best black man. If you did not believe these things, you could not justify yourself to yourself. So Jefferson could condemn slavery in words, but not in deeds.
At his magnificent estate, Monticello, Jefferson had slaves who were superb artisans, shoemakers, masons, carpenters, cooks. But like every bigot, he never said, after seeing a skilled African craftsman at work or enjoying the fruits of his labor, “Maybe I’m wrong.” He ignored the words of his fellow revolutionary John Adams, who said that the Revolution would never be complete until the slaves were free.
Jefferson left another racial and moral problem for his successors, the treatment of Native Americans. He had no positive idea what to do with or about the Indians. He handed that problem over to his grandchildren, and theirs.
Disease doesn’t discriminate.
I've never heard that second notion but I have a pretty good idea that it is yet another bit of oft repeated American propaganda. I would say that it is these popular racists like Jefferson, Washington, ... that set the tone for the US to become a virulently racist nation.
Had Jefferson not sold his soul for money and spoken out against racism/slavery, it would not have lasted as long as it did.
I don't suppose you have an explanation for why some minority ethnic groups who come to the US in a poverty stricken state work their way out of it, while others don't seem to be able to.
The budget for LA Unified School District is $7,590,000,000 for this year. If kids in LA county aren't learning, it has nothing to do with money issues.
You've got to kidding me here. 'Racist white people' aren't doing enough? That is pure garbage.
Education does not ensure responsible behavior. I grew up in the California public school system, and had sex education classes in 5th grade, 8th grade, and in high school.
If you're seriously going to suggest that non-white students in California don't know what a condom is, I'd suggest that you're the one who is positing racism here.
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