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[12dn94dst]

Originally posted by sadeluv in "greek Activities":
African-Americans love themselves!!! I resent the statement from "12dn94dst." Who are you to say that the entire Black race does not love it/themselves! Do you know all of the Black people personally? No, you don't. It is not wise to make unintelligent statements like that. Everybody I know love themselves, and they are Black.

State the facts. If you don't know what you're talking about, save us that perception of yourself, which will be a bad perception of you if you keep making statements like that.

Oh but I do know what I'm talking about because I see it everyday. I'm speaking as a whole, not individually. I LOVE MY PEOPLE, BUT ALL OF MY PEOPLE DO NOT SHARE MY FEELINGS. I don't think you know all Black people anymore that I do, but I know the statistics. I also know what I see. I know how some Black people have asked me "So you think you're better than I am just because you have a degree?" I know how much that hurt me. I know how my cousins got shot by another Black youth over some drug bull shit. I know I hear black men and women call each other niggers and bitches and whores. I know I can't turn on the news without hearing about Black people killing each other. I see little Black girls cry in the store because they want a white Barbie doll instead of the Black one because the white one is "prettier." Black people have a serious crab syndrome going. Do you know what that is? Have you seen a bucket of live crabs? They're all trying to get out but they can't because they're fighting each other. The ones that make progress are being pulled down by the ones below them. And you want to know why I say that Black people do not love themselves? The examples above are why and the statistics below are too. The leading causes of our deaths are things that, for the most part, we inflict on ourselves as opposed to the leading causes for whites which are mostly developed health issues.


From CDC National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, 1998 special data run:

AIDS Cases as of 1998, numbers are per 100,000 people:
Black Women: 54
White Women: 3
Hispanic Women: 17
Black Men: 145
White Males: 20
Hisanic Males: 67
These were contracted mostly through unprotected sex and injected drug use.


Leading causes of death by race and age from the CDC's National Vital Statistics reports, June 30, 1999

Blacks 15-24
#1 Homicides/legal interevtion
#2 Accidents
#3 Suicide

Whites 15-24:
#1 Accidents
#2 Suicides
#3 Homicides/legal intervention

Black Males 15-24:
#1 Homicides/legal intervention
#2 Accidents
#3 Suicides

White Males 15-24:
#1 Accidents
#2 Suicide
#3 Homicide/legal intervention

Black Females 15-24:
#1 Accidents
#2 Homicides
#3 Heart Disease

White Females 15-24:
#1 Accidents
#2 Suicide
#3 Malignant Tumors (Cancers)


Blacks age 25-44
#1 HIV/AIDS
#2 Heart Disease
#3 Accidents

Whites age 25-44:
#1 Accidents
#2 Cancers
#3 Heart Disease

Black Males Age 25-44:
#1 HIV/AIDS
#2 Homicide/legal intervention
#3 Accidents

White Males ages 25-44:
#1 Accidents
#2 Suicide
#3 Heart Disease

Black Females ages 25-44:
#1 Cancers
#2 HIV/AIDS
#3 Heart Disease

White Females ages 25-44:
#1 Cancers
#2 Accidents
#3 Heart Disease


Interesting, ain't it.


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Kelli
12-DN-94
SSU c/o 1997

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