Whether you believe the statistics that the CDC has compiled regarding the HIV infection rates among Black women is up to you. The fact still remains that Black women continue to become infected with the HIV virus. I believe that knowledge is power and I always felt that the more knowledge and the more informed a person was, the more likely a person would be able to make better choices in life. So when we discuss issues on Brown Sista that has a tremendous impact on the lives of Black women, our intention is never to highlight Black women in a negative light, but instead, our intention is to provide information that can help you make better choices in your own life.
Some of you may be familiar with Marvelyn Brown, the HIV/AIDS activist who was diagnosed as being HIV positive at age 19. Marvelyn was thought to be in a monogamous relationship with a man she called her “Prince Charming.” She was always adamant about having safe sex, but one day, Marvelyn and her partner found themselves in a situation where neither of them had any protection on hand. Marvelyn made a decision that would forever change her life. Just one time, Marvelyn thought it would be ok to have unprotected sex. Here’s our interview with Marvelyn Brown, six years later after discovering that she was HIV positive.
Onetta: I would like for you to think back to when the doctor told you at age 19 that you were HIV positive, how did you feel or what were your thoughts in that moment?
Marvelyn: Not knowing what HIV truly was, my mind was blank. As I began to learn more about HIV within hours after my diagnosis, I was confused because everything I thought I knew about HIV was a myth. From me thinking that it can’t happen to me to thinking that I could look at someone and be able to tell what STD they may have.
Onetta: Since I am very familiar with your story, I know that the man who infected you with the HIV virus knew that he was HIV positive, but failed to disclose that information to you. After learning that you were HIV positive, were you angry with this man and have you been able to forgive him?
Marvelyn: Yes, I was angry with him, but I was able to forgive him because God forgives me. I was not angry because he knowingly infected me with HIV, but because of his actions towards me afterwards and his denial.
Onetta: Were you ever angry with yourself?
Marvelyn: After I realized that the man who infected me was not to blame, only myself for choosing to have unprotected sex, I was angry at myself. I was angry that in that moment, I let myself go.
Onetta: Do you ever think why me?
Marvelyn: At first I did say why me, but God is not to be questioned. When I changed why me into why not me, I found the answer to my question real quick.
Onetta: What I admire most about you Marvelyn is your willingness to come forward and share your story. HIV/AIDS continues to be a taboo subject within our community, so why was it important for you to reveal your HIV positive status?
Marvelyn: It is important for me to reveal my status because I hope that it gets people talking and breaking that taboo by dispelling myths and presenting the facts.
Onetta: How did your family and friends react to you when you told them you were HIV positive?
Marvelyn: They reacted like any other person uneducated about HIV/AIDS would do, IGNORANT! But the truth is, if you are educated about HIV, there is nothing to stigmatize.
Onetta: Do you think enough is being done to educate people within our community about HIV/AIDS?
Marvelyn: No, I do not feel enough is being done. Until each and every individual within our community becomes responsible for themselves and their actions and says, “I have a role to play in the HIV/AIDS epidemic,” enough will never be done.
Onetta: What is your medication regimen like and how is your health today?
Marvelyn: My health is marvelous as I take the steps everyday to keep it that way. I try to eat right and exercise by searching through every clearance rack I see. I take 7 horse pills minimum, each and every day of my life, because those are the pills I have to take. OMG, if I get a headache, that is 8 more pills added to that because I get those headaches that 2 Tylenols can do nothing for. Sometimes I experience side effects from the medicines that I need to take.
Onetta: Marvelyn, what would you say to that woman who thinks that what happen to you couldn’t possibly happen to her?
Marvelyn: People look at me; my sisters included, and still think it can’t happen to them, like I was just unlucky.
Onetta: In closing, is there any advice that you would like to leave with the readers?
Marvelyn: GREAT NEWS! HIV is preventable! You don’t have to get it!
Get Tested! Get Educated! And Be Responsible! I love you, now love yourself enough to protect yourself!
To learn more about Marvelyn Brown, visit www.marvelynbrown.com. Her autobiography, The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive, is available at www.amazon.com.
Bless her heart to be so courageous in telling her story in hopes of helping other women out there. Education is the key to keeping this virus from spreading.
First, I think her testimony is a great reality check. I hope everyone who reads her story make better decisions about their relationships. Knowledge is power.
I read about this woman at another site. There, it was reported that the black women accounted for 61% of all NEWLY infected persons with HIV. It would be good to also know exactly what percentage of ALL HIV cases does black woman account for vs our percentage in US population. I think this would give a better perspective of where we stand and prevent alot of angry comments on this thread that mistakenly think that 61% represents ALL HIV cases when it does not.
Nevertheless, IMO one infected black woman is one to many. Let’s love ourselves and make decisions in our relationships that reflect this.
I posted about black women and HIV on World Aids Day, and haven’t understood WHY HAVEN’T WE had a reality check now!
Harris County, in Texas, had an alarming amount of black women AIDs cases over a decade ago. And again, young black girls are extremely promiscuous, worried about their “skills” and it makes me sad.
I have 3-4 young relatives who possibly have an STD, and all have come back to me, and said they wish they would have listened. Sadly, none of these girls had a stable and strong mother.
Black folks got to get it together. There’s more to celebrating Barack and Michelle—we got to love and celebrate ourselves—be responsible and not abuse our bodies.
She’s very brave for speaking out. I remember first reading about her several years ago. Glad to see that she’s still speaking out about the spread of HIV/AIDS.
WoW! What a testimony. I am glad that she has found the strength to go forth & spread the word. The answer to the question of ‘ Is enough being done to educate in our community?’ Whooo! That answer of NO not until EACH individual in the community becomes RESPONSIBLE for their ACTIONS is VERY true. The problem is NOT lack of info , but ppl CHOOSING not to listen or as she said, thinking ‘it can’t happen to them’. This woman right here telling her story is part of the educational process, but it is up to the individual to listen & learn. There are many places to get tested sceretly( heck you can do it in your home now), places to get free condoms, many sex seminars/health classes that touch specifically on HIV & other stds, & ppl like Ms. Marvelyn, who give their stories. There is really no excuse to NOT protect yourself. The information IS there, just open your ears & minds & just LISTEN.
Thanks so much for this article. This site is so much better now that it is not drowning in the same old Rihanna and Bey stories all the other blogs are copying from one another. This site is so refreshing and informative. :brownsista:
“And again, young black girls are extremely promiscuous, worried about their “skills” and it makes me sad” SparkD.
What makes me sad SparkD is you regurgitating this age old stereotype that Black women are extremely promiscuous. That’s all it is. Remember, a big part of celebrating oneself is to emancipate ones mind.
I applaud this young lady because she not playing the victim. She critically analyzes her situation from how she got there to where she is going. Consequently, she chooses to educate herself and the public from her personal experience. That is a very admirable lesson for her audience to learn.
Sadly I think that in spite of all the education out there on HIV and AIDS, some people just prefer to be ignorant. Black women will continue getting this disease and dying until there is a cure.
IT’S so very important to empower the youth today with “”THE KNOWING” of this deadly disease that is killing our people. We may not can see the impact on the outside but it defiantly impacts the inside. You never know who has ((HIV/AIDS)) if you do not get tested, there are so many opportunities today that people can take action and make sure that they are living a long healthy life . And it just really SADDENS me to know that black women are still at a higher risk . WE HAVE GOT TO DO BETTER. This sistah :brownsista: is so courage’s to write a book and tell her story to the world . WE need more brave women like this today .
IF we can go out here and buy the hottest clothes & shoes & pick up the hottest cd in stores we can go out here to a general hospital or local health clinic and GET TESTED!!!!!!!!
NUFF SAID…………….MUCH RESPECT :bowdown:
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I too appreciate the testimony of this young lady, but it is sad that people continue to preach, and it appears that not enough people are listening. I still feel that the message must contiue to be spread because even if everyone does not listen, some will. I just feel that even though this message is wide spread, people just have their own ideas about life and don’t care if they get a disease because as one young man told me, you are not going to live forever so it does not matter. Some people just don’t care because of all the life situations that throw you a curve ball, it simply does not matter to them to try and preserve their appreciation for their bodies and the life they are given. I wish everyone all the success and happiness that they take hold of.
She is a very brave young lady. God bless her precious heart.
People may not want to hear it, but SparkD is not far off the mark. Black girls are picking up very bad habits and are in fact very promiscuous. Is it all of them? Of course not. But I see an alarming rate of black girls, in my own family and the families of those close to me, who are beyond out there. Online hookups, sleeping with guys five and six years older, sneaking out … it is crazy. A lot of this behavior they are learning from their mothers, aunts and women in their communities who are setting poor examples. Some of it is media influence. There are all sorts of variables but I think kids in general are more lax and wreckless about sex today than they have ever been. This is why kids of all races and orientations are getting infected younger and younger. Just look up the statistics. It is frightening, especially in the DC/Baltimore area where I’m at. The rate of STD/AIDS infection here is through the roof – just look at predominantly black areas like PG County. It’s number two in the state behind Bmore for STDs.
SnijanaFleur, I can testify for many reasons that many black women are VERY promiscuous!
1. Personal observation from my middle-school to high school years. Black girls in my school were sleeping with 20+ y.o. men, and it got worse after my college years. The young girls who were my cousin’s age, were much more bold in their behavior.
2. I am part of the solution. I have no children—and have helped raise other people’s kids because of it. I’ve been doing this since I was 18, and their mother’s fit into that “no father, promiscuous, hurt black woman.” And these children are suffering. I’ve endured personal hell, raising children of relatives myself—who ended up repeating a cycle! Thank God, my nephew is going to college—so I was a teen-raising-another-pre-teen.
I have the battle scars, and have been on the front line of seeing black women destroy themselves. It’s awful, and much worst than I ever expected.
I went beyond PREACHING. I did a lot of REACHING—putting people in my house, using my scholarship money to help, and giving young ladies my clothes. Tutoring and uplifting–and many cases I was the only help they had–until it begin to drag me down.
And my neice—who was a teen mother and formerly promiscuous—finally told me thank you. I am a young woman who can TESTIFY that WE AS BLACKS ARE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE when it comes to STD’S, AIDS, and many other things—and to add emphasis–one of my dear young cousin’s mother has HIV.
:sad: This is sad. That is a very brave young woman. I couldn’t imagine facing something like that. I don’t know what I would do. I don’t even know if I’d be comfortable telling my family. I can totally understand why this disease is spreading so fast in third world countries, but here in America, things should be better. We all know better.
Promiscuoity is not really the problem, it’s ppl actually PROTECTING themselves if they are leading such a life that IS the problem. Listen, no one is sitting here saying that spreading ones legs for any Tom, Michael, & Ray is acceptable, BUT the problem really doesn’t lie there. The problem is IF you are gonna go w/ ALL these men what are you going to do to be RESPONSIBLE & protect your body. The young lady in the interview who has contracted the diease was NOT promiscous, she was in a MONAGAMUS relationship. The key in this whole situation is.. PROTECTION & being TESTED regularly if sexual active. The young ladies who you claim are “promiscous” are not catching stds b/c they sleep w/ many partners.. they are catching it b/c they DO NOT protect themselves while sleeping w/ so many partners. Promiscuoity only begans to play a role when folks DON’T ‘wrap it up’ & that’s what many are doing b/c they are ignorant to the facts, hence the spread of the diease. Like the young lady said be RESPONSIBLE for your actions. And last time I checked promiscuousity transcends race. I have seen PLENTY of White women who are out there when it comes to sexual partners.
Here’s the question: Do you believe 12-year old hurting girls should be equipped to protect themselves? You can’t preach protection without getting to the source—which is abuse, dysfunction which leads to wreckless promiscuous behavior.
YES I do believe that 12 yr old girls who are known to be sleeping around REGARDLESS if they are hurting or not.. should be taught about protection. YES they need help to find out as to why they feel the need to sleep w/ so many different men, but they need a condom & a course on sexual health as well. B/c even tho she may be getting the help to healing her hurt, she will STILL go out & sleep around unprotected & put her self @ risk It all goes hand in hand. If the child is gonna go out & do adult things she or he needs to know the risks. Healing AND protection or BOTH needed. That is part of the problem, parents are afraid to tread this water w/ their kids. No one wants their child to be having sex, but if they are what are you gonna do? At the end of the day the kids are gonna do what they want, so they NEED to be educated. And hiding in the shadows about the issue will NOT make it go away.
:brownsista: Great read! It takes a very courageous woman to tell this story! Hopefully, this will have educate many black woman because it really just takes ONE time!
:brownsista:
“Yeah I said it” you are so on point. I was beginning to think this web site was dedicated to Beyonce, Ciara, and Rihanna, not your typical brown sistas. I am glad the author had the courage to addresss this issue. The moment is never worth one’s life.
I believe there is a part in the bible where God says something like “my people perish due to ignorance“ or something like that, and this is exactly what is happening to the black community, we live in the so-called most developed country on earth but the ignorance in the american black community is not that different from what we see in third world countries and i say this is due to bad parenting…..black parents or whoever is raising black kids these days is doing an awful job and here are the results..can somebody pls tell me why a 14 yrs old girl is having sex? when i was 14 things like sex didnt even cross my mind and when i was old to even thnk of it, my mother lectured me so much that i cant remenber having sex without a condom one day in my life
the black community is full of out-of-wedlock kids and teen mothers and think about it for one second, if you`re pregant then there a million chances that you had sex with no protection, so you end up sometimes with 2 luggages that you`re not prepared to carry; a baby and a disease..i mean there is so much to say i just wonder…
We all need to realize when we see these young ladies coming on these talk shows and court shows not knowing who the father of their child is and testing 5 and 6 different guys those are just the one’s we see on television. I just don’t get it. These young people have more access to information than anyone has ever had and still are making all of these foolilsh decisions. I don’t know what more we can tell them I mean damn Aids kills and there is no cure. What more information can we give these young people. Stop sleeping around. For the young ladies that are reading this you can say no. You don’t have to have sex. Just stop it. Sex is not worth dying for. Now this 19 year old child has something that is going to kill her. She has something that you just can’t go get a shot or pill. This is for young ladies just stop it. Your body is your responsibility and if you find youself in a situation where there is no condemn available then you excuse yourself from the situation and if you have to have sex then you go and get the condemn. I don’t know what more we can tell you all. If you are not willing to protect yourself then stop having sex.
quote: Do you believe 12-year old hurting girls should be equipped to protect themselves?
Yes because 12 year old girls generally are not sleeping with 12 year old boys. Grown *** men who don’t give a **** about them are more likely to infect them with a disease. In the absense of a responsible adult to take the girl out of that situation and get her some counseling, then she at the very LEAST should be taught about speaking up for herself and protecting her body.
Bee:
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I understand where you’re coming from. I call it wilful ignorance. The information is all there (and makes us more privileged than others from around the world), but ignorance retards those who would otherwise learn. I guess it’s still “cute” to be dumb. But also, condoms don’t always solve the problem, knowledge does as does self-control. Making good and sound decisions prevent problems, not living for the moment.
i don’t buy HIV… too many ways a test can yield false positives, and i’m still stumped on how a “disease” born mainly from the gay and drug abusing communities has become a plague for mostly black americans and sub-saharan africans. -too contrived for me.
@ oliver i dnt know maybe i’m in denial about my third world but i find everything being blown up when it comes to AIDS and just about anything,as soon as someone famous visits africa opharnages wich didnt exist before pop up from nowhere,you know for what?funding……we are to damn foolish to think HIV wasnt manufactored,i guess you believe it originated from a monkey in Africa……its easy for you @oliver to let a white journalist do a research for you about the so called third world,do they give you a report how some countries are stabilizing and how they are wining this battle….i think you are the one who is ignorant and needs to learn more about Africa….you watch too much Oprah Winfrey.
Now these are the kind of entries that made me post in here. I think it is great that you posted this in here and it is good that this young woman is using her story as a positive to educate and enlighten others. Especially when you’re young, people think that you’re invincible but that’s not the case. I have Hepatitus C myself, and making bad decisions put me in this situation. But with the medicine that I am taking and everything, I am doing pretty good. It’s at “acute” stage right now and as long as it stays there I am ok. People need to know how important to make the right decisions so that you don’t get into the same situation that this young lady or myself.
You don’t buy HIV?@ Rene. These are the kinda posts that keeps our people jacked up everytime. This is the reason why we need young women like this to tell their story so that they can know, that can happen to anyone.
@Rene:
I find your ignorance on this subject to be not only ignorant, but also frightening, offensive and reckless.
Sheesh.
@Spark D:
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I’m married and I get tested every year. Not that I dont trust my husband because I do, its just for my own peace of mind.. My question is why are so many black women at a higher percentage? I’m not sure if someone asked or answered this question already but it makes me wonder.. Is it because so many of our black men still feel the need to live double lives? Not pointing the finger, but it just makes me wonder..
@Ni-Ni I completely understand where you are coming from. You can trust a person but in this day and age you just don’t know. You never know what a person is doing and if you have some kind of inkling then you should trust that inkling. Black women we need to start asking black men point blank are you HIV positive or do you have AIDS and visa/versa for black men. And once you two have established that sex in the next step you want to take you both should be tested and show each other the results. We are not animals we can wait a week or two. But we as black people have got to start making better decisions with our health and our lives.
@ Bee I agree with you 100%. I’ve been married for 2 years, and we’ve been together for 3. From the moment I decided to have sex with him we got tested together. I have a son to live for and I was not about to have him come in my life and give me anything that I didnt have before I met him. We go to the same doctor and get tested every year together. Its a scary world we live in. My son is 10 and I educate him on HIV and STD’’s now. And I’ll beat that mess in his head until he starts having sex.
Thanks for the post! I work for a HIV/AIDS organization and this is something that we all should be concerned about. We must educate ourselves and young girls/boys about HIV/AIDS/STDs because the numbers are going up, not down. There was a recent study that stated that 1 in 4 teenage girls have an STD. Why? Lack of education. How can you tell someone young or old to just stop having sex when they don’t know anything about their bodies, much less about STDs. I can not tell you how many young people are clueless about their bodies or understand that they have options. There are so many layers to this thing, acceptance, popularity, love, and self-esteem those are the issues you must overcome. Not just telling someone to not have sex.
women get it more for different reasons
physiology- consider the ******… more vulnerable surface area to bruise than a penis. also unprotected sex means ***** is deposited INTO it. them body fluids go a long way.
socialiazation – silly beliefs that good girls dont buy or carry condoms, a woman who really loves a man must trust him completely(hitting raw = being down),
men only use condoms with tramps
besides women are scared to lose men by asking the hard questions or taking stands.
why cant protection be a higher expression of love?
And I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t make some clarifications
@ Ni-Ni: I am not in favor of unnecessary testing. If you have not had any risk factors within the last 3 months you do not need to be tested. There is no need to test every year, unless you have reason to believe that you should be tested.
@rene: HIV was not “born” in the gay and drug using communities. Think about which communities were getting tested first.
@lizz: Whether HIV was manufactured or not, it’s still here. Just make sure you are protecting yourself. I always tell people if you think the government is playing you, then don’t get played!
@lizz
i dont know if you have reading comprehension issues or you just decide to look the other way like most black folks in this country do…either you agree or not the truth of the matter is AIDS does exist and if you cant even comprehend that, then there isnt even a ground on which we can debate….i had no intention to make fun of africa(let it be clear) and no! fyi i dont watch oprah but i was simply saying that the ignorance we have in this black community is the reason why folks are not thriving and always want to look at things in terms of white and black(just like you) , denial and ignorance have led too many black women prematurely to the grave
@banjiboi
I’m not the only “ignorant” one who is skeptical… there are many health professions who are too. – and people who were diagnosed have given testimony of how they are doing BETTER WITHOUT THE MEDICINE.
STD’s are a big problem for the whole species… I’m just not sure about this one.
-Oh, and keep ur nicknames to urself, and try viewing the subject more objectively, m’kay? Stank ya ;)
What a strong women to share her story! I want to read that and suppor ther
@ Torya..
I get tested every year when I get my annual pap. Its something I request and its something I’m use to getting and will continue to do.. To each its own. But I would rather get tested for everything at the same time. period.
Thanks for your feedback.
@Rene
Sorry, but in light of the structure of your orignal comment, which sounded flippant or vague, at best, (you don’t purport to lend any depth to your statement), I must stand by original reaction.
Perhaps you’d care to shed some light? Other than, “I don’t buy HIV”………..
Where are the stats to back up your claims? Yeah, there are quite a few of us who don’t believe that HIV is organic in nature. Oh, and let’s discuss personal responsibility, rampant homophobia in Africa (a leading cause of non-disclosure here in the US, as well, considering the whole downlow syndrome) and lets throw in the church, too, while we’re at it.
All of these variables must be added into the mix, if we are to try and make sense of this mess. Whatever the cause, origins, or socio-religious factors of HIV/AIDS, the fact of the matter is that is IS HERE and it’s affecting of our community at a disproportionate rate than whites and ****. I’ve personally worked in the field of addiction and have seen the affects close up.
Oh, and I do take back my remark about you being ignorant – you’re clearly far from it.
why was the word “****” struck out of my comments? and I meant to say “effects”.
again, is the g-word for homosexual not allowed here? if not, I find that to be more offensive than anything else i might have encountered here…………………..
@torya if you read my point carefuly i highlighted that the are many countries in Africa where Aids is stabilizing and the rate is going down slowly but surely coz people are taking care of themselves and are getting wiser,just pissed at oliver for calling thirdworld people ignorant….just bcoz HIV is a manufactured disease created to control the population of **** and blacks dsnt mean we have to let go of our morals and values,yes we will do our best to preserve ourselves and our race but since it is manufactured then there is a cure thats how scientist work,in South Africa there is a doctor known as doctor death who during the apartheid era was involved in spreading the virus through immunization vaccines and some kind of fake penicilin that was distributed in state hospitals,the whole project was funded by developed countries to protect their companies and the on going scramble of Africa ,….how are they able to create a vaccine at a blink of an eye if a new virus threatens to wipe out their entire human species within seconds but fail with hiv which was discovered in the 80z or 60z?….i dnt trust scientist coz they get bribes from pharmarceutical giants…..@ oliver next time when you sitting,driving or eating just ponder and ask yourself who had to suffer or die in a mine or in any thirdworld country for you to drive your car,wear your jewelery or why ethopian farmers have to suffer for you to have a cheap coffe at your coffe shop…just do that before you call people ignorant
To those of you with knowledge of a teen girl sleeping with 20+ year old men:
CALL THE COPS!
That’s called statutory rape in all 50 states (I think). This law protects teenagers who ARE willing but TOO YOUNG to know better. They are not of the AGE OF CONSENT and need to be protected by adults who know better.
Help Lord!
@lizz
you`re taking this context way too out, yes i know the coffee i drink mostly come from africa, the steel in my car comes from my car and i`m grateful but yes i also know that there is a prevalence of ignorance in third world countries and since you dont know what third world countries mean , i just have to remind you that third world countries are also found in asia, latin america, the middle east and africa, so when i said “ignorant “ i wasnt specifically targeting the brothas and sistas who live in africa..sober up
@Lizz said I saw that documentary that you are speaking of. He was a German doctor that got kicked out of America. The first HIV case was documented in America in 1956 look it up and it was a black baby. That doctor was kicked out of America because he was infecting black/brown people in Harlem way back in the 1950’s. It was on Link tv years ago. It is a known fact that he went to Africa in the Congo area and built a clinic worked with the government and forced parents at gun point to get their children immunized. Since the days of Moses they have been trying to get rid of us. Don’t be twisted and confused when you read about the Israelites in the Bible and think blond hair blue eyes. Those people looked just like us. There is something about the distinction of us that gets people off for some reasons.
Lizz you are right AIDS is a manufactured disease, but, it’s here and we need to educate ourselves. That is why I won’t get a flu shot. If you can create that flu virus you can create that AIDs virus. So don’t be so quick to write people off as being crazy when they are telling you off the wall stuff people because that is what the powers that be want you to think. They want you to think that that person is crazy. I am sure a lot of people called Paul and John crazy when they were telling them about all the stuff in the biblical times. Do research and find out things for yourself. They created something that got out of hand and now they can’t even control it.
oh, they can control anything they create. you don’t think they would taint themselves if it is manufactured… they give the perception that they can’t. Mind and population CONTROL.
Wakeup call…What a brave young women to come forth and share her story. WOW…We all need to be more educated and cautious on this issue. It is real. Bless her heart.
See her thinking she was in a monogamous relationship and got this scares me. I’m so paranoid about STI’s/STD’s these days from men almost crazy but you have to be these days on both sides actually. She’s big to forgive him….I’d be in jail if this happened to me smh.
Me was right about one thing: sometimes when little girls see their mothers running around in tight, hoochie clothes, going with this man and that man, bragging to their girlfriends about certain “skills”, the kids grow up not knowing any better. I am saddened when I see young women with 2-3 or more kids going about with boobs hanging out, pants so tight you can see the pimples on their axxes. Its not teaching the children anything but unhealthy behavior. I don’t know what the ***** is wrong with these young women.
Anyway, here in DC the HIV infection rate is 3%, and actually estimated to be at least 5% if you count all the people who have it and have not been tested. So many people have diseases and will not tell you because 1) they triflin 2) they don’t know 3) they want to deliberately spread it.
Bee you are right. The AIDS virus may have been created in a lab. They be messing with all kinds of stuff, who the h#ll knows what. They could have been doing God knows what and something got out of hand.
Hmmm – food for thought.
Yeah I live in Southeast D.C. actually and people act like it’s some miracle i’m 23 with no kids and get tired of seeing 19 yr olds with 2 or 3 kids. A lot of young women are as bad as the young men though that also ho around if I can say that here so the finger can be pointed evenly in both directions not just to the women IMO about who is spreading it. I don’t get why it’s so hard for people to be selective about who they sleep with but even for females like Marelyn who try to be monogamous as was so young when this happened is again extra scary because like even i you think you are in a trusting relationship you need to take him and yourself to the doctor every few months and look at each other’s papers. It blows my mind about those who knowingly spread it and that people are going to jail for that for a long time sometimes life even more often now. She forgave him and that’s good for her and everything but guys like the one she was with should be locked away from the public indefinitely.
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