Did You Get The Memo?

According to the Red Cross, budget cuts have caused a lot of "key people" in our community organizations to be lost. The nearest Red Cross office that offers HIV&AIDS certification classes is located in High Point!

A question that I've been asking for a while now is: What is it going to take for that mental light to come on and for people to realize that it is up to us to handle this problem? I have no idea. But I do believe that it's rooted in our behavior. So it's like we have to change the order in which we're doing things. Sexual things that is. Because if we keep doing things the way we always have, then we're going to keep getting the same results we always have. Please take notice that HIV&AIDS have got pretty good momentum right now.

Have you ever wondered why the weight of HIV&AIDS has shifted from the gay male segment to the African-American woman??? The gay community does not hesitate to tell us that they have not changed their behavior. So is it the passive nature of our women that is to blame yet again? The sharing of men is a deadly game. Particularly when they return home to us from the penitentiary not knowing their own status.

I'm not taking a position of judging anybody, only trying to keep it real. Sex groups are deadly too. When one member is infected then the remaining partners eventually become infected as well.

So you see, we have to help ourselves if we are to overcome this issue. Since when does the death of our people make a difference to anyone but us? We are expendable: Not worth salvaging. That's why I have so much to say and then have my own people look at me sideways as they wonder why I give a damn if I'm not positive. We're living in some crazy times that much is certain.

But I'm going to do me and I'm going to do my best to be true to my responsibilities. Because in the case of HIV&AIDS, I do not believe that help is on the way. I believe that we are on the way out if we don't get ourselves together. That's the memo that I got!

Never forgetting "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.", the devastaion of Haiti or Katrina.....