Bad link."Hysterical Blindness" [April 10]? Selective is more like it. While reading your piece about HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and AIDS and the progress or changes in society's attitudes (or lack thereof) since 1983, I was pleased that you included a man of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color Magic Johnson--as an example of someone who is "thriving" despite his status as a person who is HIV-positive. Then I read the next-to-last paragraph. You just couldn't resist the opportunity to link "men of color"--your euphemism for black men--to "down low" sex and the implication that we are spreaders of this disease, could you? Why didn't you describe the racial background of the rural afflicted af·flict tr.v. af·flict·ed, af·flict·ing, af·flicts To inflict grievous physical or mental suffering on. [Middle English afflighten, from afflight, or crystal meth meth n. Methamphetamine hydrochloride. users? PAUL EVANS Brooklyn, N.Y. |
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