Do African Americans seriously believe that the HIV/AIDS virus was created by the gov to kill them off?
I heard this theory is very prevalent in the black community. Is that true?
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...Which black community?
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Yes, it is. For one thing, people of African stock have little resistance to the disease (the Norse and Swedes appear to be more resistant). It was traced to Africa, and it is there where the disease is worst. For paranoid people, the conclusion is simple: The USA did it to test out biological weapons.
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I thought it was for a while.
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lol I heard this one too...and Im black its a load of bull black ppl want to blame the 'white man' or the 'gov' for everything but a lot of poor ghetto ppl DO believe it.... not us normal blk ppl who aren't living in the projects and when black ppl like me don't fall into that sterotype or their beliefs they call us ( me ) a sellout a " white man lover" can u believe Alicia Keys had a audacity to say that HIV/Gov't thing? lord have mercy she's not even blk...well her father is
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It wouldnt surprise me if that were true I heard this theory and it makes sense to me, why not test out something on the disposable blacks and while your at it kill off Africa and go take their land which is the most potent land in the world
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LOL. No. thats Idiotic!
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No this is the first time that I've heard of this. And I find it ridiculous. As for anu.... all you had to do was say whether you believed it or not. I find it funny that you call yourself "normal". So what just because some live in a different neighborhood it makes them different or from the tone of your post of lesser stature. Get over yourself. A sinple yes or no would have sufficed.
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Some people I am sure beleive that. But anyone with at least a shred of intelligence knows that isn't true. I read in a Biology publication that HIV has been traced to Africans. They beleive that it was passed on to man from Gorillas (or another primative great ape, i am not exaclty sure). This Ape was was hunted for its meat, i believe. Dealing with the dead ape, the men (the hunters) became infected whrn there blood came into contact with the blood of the infected ape. The men, unknowingly, brought the disease back to their wives/lovers, and it has spread like crazy. Makes sense to me. There is great supporting evidence for this (thanks to phylogenetics). ~chai edit: Charlie D has got it, and the monkey's form of the virus is called SIV, and its not deadly like it is in humans.
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WOW., SOME DO AND SOME DONT.
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No, I never thought this, and I don't believe this, but it's not as crazy as you may think. Consider the following 1. The government only made a real effort to put an end to black oppression 45 years ago 2. The response to Katrina was pathetic. They didn't care about the blacks there. 3. No one cares about Genocide in Africa. 4. They (Germans) already tried to kill the Jews. The US government's response was pathetic. (Therefore, everyone who's not a white Protestant is not important). 5. The US tested chemicals on its own troops. If the government thinks that little of the soldiers, I wouldn't be surprised if they did that to us. 6. The government doesn't think anything of killing people to get what it wants. Look what they did to the Native Americans to get their land. 7. Recently they started to test artificial blood on patience who rode in ambulances without their consent. Not that I believe this, I'm just saying it's plausible
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I wouldn't put anything past the government. Did you know they used LSD on soldiers to see if it would make them super soldiers. True story.
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Ever heard of the Tuskegee syphillis experiment? We have plenty of reason to be a little paranoid.
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i heard about this in africa.. and i think its true.. Have you ever watched how many commercials showing people with HIV/AIDS in Africa. I know that HIV/AIDS is everywhere now but you will never see one commercial saying help people with AIDS in America or UK i don't know about the other countries though. (for the record i'm cool with white people - we all equal unless there is someone who got a problem with me)
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Never heard that before. HIV and Aids were mainly started by the gay community and drug users.
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haha wow. i have never heard this before but no that is not true. HIV/AIDS started from some person screwing a monkey.
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Yes, many blacks believe that ridiculous theory, including Will Smith. They also believe that guns and crack cocaine were provided by the government, in an attempt to kill off the blacks. Many people, including a previous poster, think that AIDS originated from people "screwing" monkeys. It actually originated from people butchering infected monkeys for food. People of all races like to believe conspiracy theories.
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I've never heard it put that way, but rather that HIV/AIDS was created in a lab, and then carelessly introduced in African communities. Here are some other theories which have been asserted with just as much vigor, if not more: -When it first hit the United States, it killed more gay white males than anyone else. This also sparked some gays to believe that the search for a cure had been decelerated because it afflicted mostly gays. -And of course, you can't ignore the bigots who also believed that *God* created the disease to wipe out gays and blacks. -Some bigots also believe that an African trekked deep into the jungle one evening and decided to have sex with an ape that carried the AIDS virus. Of course this theory never goes as far as to explain how HIV/AIDS was introduced into white populations too. -Lastly, some French scientists have done extensive research on the origin of AIDS as highlighted in the documentary "Les Origines du SIDA" or "The Origin of AIDS" (2003). They also suggest that AIDS was created in a lab, in Africa (I forget which country), and irresponsibly introduced into the local population. You can view that documentary here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml7q6iMwqLY (the user BaMenace has most of the documentary broken up in parts). So, you see, there are many conspiracy theories (and, literally, out-of-this-world theories) surrounding HIV/AIDS. Can we move on now and try and find a cure?
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which black community? that is not true. that is wrong.
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I've never heard this
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Black people have reason to believe this, as crazy as it may sound but look at history Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service. 399 poor — and mostly illiterate — African American sharecroppers were studied to observe the natural progression of the disease if left untreated. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study injured the level of trust in the black community towards public health efforts in the United States.
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I knew about this feeling by Africans in Africa, but I never knew it also spread to America. How weird.
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