{news} "Black America Must Confront AIDS"--AIDS Crisis A Result Of War On Drugs

[clifford thornton]

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AIDS Crisis A Result
Of War On Drugs


Julian Bond's Aug. 15 Other Opinion article "Black America Must Confront AIDS" is traumatic. 

America, especially black America, operates in a crisis mode. This issue is not new. Trouble is, black America as well as everyone in perceived positions of power in this country are unwilling to confront this issue head on.

Let's be realistic. More than 50 percent of the AIDS cases in this country, be they black, brown or white, somehow stem from intravenous drug use. To get control we must confront homosexuality, the war on drugs, prisons and black churches.

It has been almost 40 years since this drug war started. The drug war is meant to be waged, not won. Yet we have ignored it and with it, the AIDS pandemic.

The NAACP, Urban League and black churches have been cowardly in their approach to this ever-expanding crisis. The question that has to be asked is: When does going along to get along make one complicit? I have never heard Mr. Bond or any other black leader talk about the real issue called "the war on drugs."

These drugs have to be brought inside of the law. When this happens, the spreading of AIDS will be stopped in its tracks. 

When one talks about legalizing drugs, we are only talking about one thing only and that is the redistribution of income and wealth. Black America and all its leaders who have sold out to the powers that be are complicit in this AIDS nightmare.

Clifford Wallace Thornton Jr.

Manchester

The writer is the Green Party candidate for governor. 


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