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To Be and Not Be Some Things are Worse Than Police Brutality
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c.2003 M. Bennett Hooper



 


When many young Black men find themselves frequently victims of Police brutality they respond with justifiable rage and anger and
I can understand that.
But over stand this
where is the anger and rage about the annihilation of young Black women throughout America and the Diaspora?


In 2001 almost 2/3rds of women in the US who discovered they had AIDS were Black
80.1% per 100K females aged 20-44 infected with the AIDS virus between 1994-98 were Black and the leading cause of the epidemic was heterosexual contact, then drug injection usage.
American Black women between the ages of 16-21 are 7 times more likely than White women to become HIV positive and fully infected with AIDS.


It is time to remove the blinders from the eyes of many in the African American community.
Behavior modification is more than a slogan.
The crack that is killing far too many Blacks is not coming from a plastic pipe.
The crack killing female Black America is less than a foot below the navel and it is opening far too often for far too many partners who like their sports in the raw.


Many of these same partners are DL brothers who do not consider themselves homosexual or bi-sexual, just Black.
Many of these new down low (DL) brothers are homo-thugs who wear baggy jeans, do rags and sport FUBU jackets, Nike sneakers, and Timber’s.
50 % of the new HIV cases in Black males are the result of male with male sexual encounters not injected drugs.
Encounters which began for many in jails and prisons and 90% are reportedly unaware of their infection.


Black men have been dying of AIDS for years, and most were openly gay and drug users
It is only after the innocent Black female became infected that the Black community begins to awaken.
The women are not blameless or shameless just stupidly driven by a culture that beckons at every level so show me what you working with.
Beckoning in music videos and movies as they encourage promiscuity as a new rite of passage.
And the passage ends in slow marches, sad songs, cremation urns, and coffins for many who only wanted to be loved for themselves.


The sale of bodies is not new, however, in an age filled with information too many Black women are choosing suicide with flapping thighs.
Why not as they practiced in Uganda in the 80’s Abstain, be faithful, or use a condom.
ABC, ABSTINENCE, BE FAITHFUL OR USE A CONDOM.
In 1995 90% of their young people aged 15-19 reported from one to zero sexual partners in the previous year.
It was behavior modification not the fear of escalating death that was responsible for their success.
Can you not learn your ABC’S young Black America.
Practice if you must the safest RAW sport.


REASON ALWAYS WINS.


 


 


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 Reviews of "To Be and Not Be Some Things are Worse Than Police Brutality"
Reviewed by Patricia Gomes
Reviewed on August 6, 2003
Anger in eloquence - and you speak for many. May your message spread from coast to coast, Marion. Thanks for this one.

Reviewed by Leland Waldrip
Reviewed on August 5, 2003
You educate us to a tragedy. Reason always wins in a fair fight. Unfortunately, this one isn't fair. Keep the pressure on!
Leland

Reviewed on August 5, 2003
A poem with a great message.

May Lu a.k.a. Sandie Angel :o)

Reviewed by Bhuwan Thapaliya
Reviewed on August 5, 2003
Wise write...superb!!!

Reviewed by john zimmerman
Reviewed on August 5, 2003
grim stats, marion
gritty telling,
good work,
john+

Reviewed on August 5, 2003
(((marion)))

this may be a lifesaver--this needs to be taught to our kids and leaders and shouted from the rooftops

powerful, in today's language anybody, Black or white, should understand

(((HUGS))) and love,

karla. :)


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