Blunt yet factually correct information elicits intense whining.
Students at Boise State University are calling some fliers offensive and racist.
The literature first surfaced last week on World AIDS Day. It tellspeople how not to catch AIDS by suggesting no sex with bisexuals orpeople who inject drugs. But the language that has students mostconcerned is about African Americans.
Senior Jalara Walker, an African-American, came to BSU fromCalifornia. She’s loved her time on campus, but that changed last weekafter she found several fliers in a class.
“I really thought that stuff like this was over,” Walker said.
The fliers read: “Don’t Catch AIDS!” at the top. At the bottom theysay: “Blacks are walking STD factories” and “once u go black we don’twant u back.”
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Dwight Murphy saw a woman last week stuffing newspapers at a campus newsstand with those fliers.
“She didn’t look anymore out of place than any student here,” Murphy said.
Racial and Ethnic Minorities Figures
http://www.cdc.gov/STD/stats08/minorities-figs.htm
American blacks are 20 times more likely than whites to be infected with gonorrhea.
American blacks are eight times more likely than whites to be infected with syphilis.