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This Weeks Issue New Years Eve Party Pg3 Four Loko is Dangerous
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Issue 156
10/29/2010
From the Publisher… The Longest Running Minority Magazine
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Stories of Man, Women & Teens Living With AIDS Grace. I found out my status four years ago after I went for the antenatal care. I was expecting my second born. I told my husband and he never said anything. Despite giving birth through C-section and without breastfeeding, my daughter got the virus. She has been so sick but a year ago she was pt on ARV's and she is doing great. My husband turned and he won’t accept he is positive and he's refused to go to the doctors. I'm in the process of moving out and living with my kids without him since he discriminates and stigmatizes me all the time. I know for sure I will find someone who is the same status with me to share a lifetime because it is not the end of the world and life goes on if you live positively. No one knows in my family except my husband and the doctor
Sweetie-B, I have been living with HIV for the past 4 years now and it's an up hill struggle just to be someone in life. I think the guy who did this to me already new he was infected with the disease!! Sometimes I would sit in my room just reliving the whole ordeal. I would blame me for all that has happened and that I deserved to be infected with what was once a deadly disease, but with more newer medications readily available I have learnt to overcome my fears of dying from it. I was so depressed, alone, afraid to leave the house I literally stopped eating for two weeks after my diagnosis became distant from my friends and family. Until this day none of my family or friends knows I am positive, nor would they begin to understand me. Sometimes i feel like just ending thing right here and now, but I look at my handsome boyfriend NK and I can't bring myself to part from him. He is the only one who supports me and has not walked away from me even when I told him everything about my disease. I was 24 when i was infected. i give thanks to my God for keeping me safe and guiding me through my endeavors. I will be 30 years in just 3 weeks, praise my God for his never fading love
Jkay on Janurary 4th, at 7pm I found out I was HIV positive....Like I always do, I get a yearly STD check and on this particular day I decided to get tested...The news got broke to me and I like everyone else on here I felt like my life was OVER!!!!...I mean the first thought that came to my mind was my grandmother...I didnt think she would take it well but at the same time I wanna tell someone. But i cant becuz my family will be hurt... I became HIV postive from having unprotcted sex with someone i really liked and wated to please in order for him to like me but it didnt happen that way and i think it could have been prevented if only i realized i didnt know this dude and i'm letting him sex me unprotectivly...So now its like OMG!!!...I have Hiv!....I felt i wasnt goin to live long enough to enjoy my life, My sisters and brothers will fell like there older brother let them down and my social life is no longer a social life. It hurts to feel like this and to think about so much stuff. I'm like okay, dude!...You always said if there was a time that you did become positive, your still going to live your lie to the fulliest and thats what i'm doin...LIVIN!!!
Vannessa Hello my name is vanessa and I don't care if everybody fines out that I have HIV. I am 15 years old I was born in Bronx New York I Moved to california when I was 5 then just recently I moved to Maryland. I am here today to tell you about my life having HIV I was born with it. My mother found out when I was 2 years old because one day I had little tiny balls in my stomach and my mother was worried so she took me to the doctors. The doctors took a blood test to my mother, sister, and me me and my mom came out positive my sister was negative. Today in days I live a normal life but I have to drink meds everyday my mother told me when I was 7 that I had hiv and I couldn't tell anyone. Today I don't care if everbody knows I have that cuz I like to educate people around the world. Thank you for reading my story From vanessa
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Reading artist honored at NAACP gala Ed Terrell, a Reading artist and 2010 Community Impact award recipient, was honored as a local humanitarian Saturday, Oct. 15, at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in the city. Terrell is a community leader in the neighborhoods in Reading who engages himself in activities, projects and initiatives that are aimed to promote positive and proactive opportunities for youth and families. You can find Terrell's work represented throughout Reading as you travel in various neighborhoods. Terrell has just completed a mural at the site of the Penn Street Market at Eighth and Penn streets, which opened this summer. Ed has managed to capture the essence and the richness of the diversity of Reading within the numerous murals that are displayed on buildings. He works to encourage young people to explore their creative talents to enhance the beauty and richness that exists in the city though their art. Ed's insight and contribution into effective strategies to embrace opportunities for youth make him a valued asset to our community and a role model for tomorrow's leaders. For these and many other reasons, Terrell has received the 2010 Community Impact Award Bctv.org
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Racial Inequality in The Criminal Justice System
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acial inequality in the criminal justice system is a topic that has become increasingly more relevant with the rising penal population in the United States. Education and race seem to be the most decisive factors when deciding who goes to jail and what age cohort has the greatest percentage chance of incarceration. Race inequalities in the criminal justice system have a strong effect of many realms of society such as the family life, and employment. Going to prison no longer affects just the individual who committed the crime but instead, the family and community left behind gain a new burden by one individual's actions. The United States still has a large disparity between Whites and Blacks and now a growing Hispanic population. This racial disparity in the educational system, job sector, and neighborhoods have all contributed to the booming prison population in the latter part of the 20th century which has only continued to widen in the 21st century.
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The likelihood of black males going to prison in their lifetime is 16% compared to 2% of white males and 9% of Hispanic males.[2] If there is no substantial gap in the likelihood of committing a crime between races then this evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that there is racial inequality in the criminal justice system.[improper synthesis?] Other social factors can be linked to the racial inequality in the criminal justice system such as Socioeconomic status, the environment you grew up in, and the highest educational level a person achieves. It has been argued by some that the race a person is born into has a substantial effect on the amount of discrimination they experience in their lifetime. In a sociological experiment conducted by Steven Raphael, a black male with no criminal record applying for a certain job had a 14% chance of getting a callback for an interview while a white male applying for the same job had a 34% chance of getting a callback for an interview. If both the black male and white male had criminal records the callback percentage was 5% and 17% respectively.[2] This obvious job discrimination shows that there are significant negative effects on blacks even after their prison sentence has been served. With less opportunity than whites to enter back into the workforce after incarceration, blacks end up having a higher rate of return to prison.
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There is also a large disparity between races when it comes to sentencing convicts to Death Row. Looking just at the federal death penalty data released by the Department of Justice between 1995-2000, 682 defendants were charged with death-eligible crimes.[3] Out of those 682 defendants, the defendant was black 48% of the cases, Hispanic in 29% of the cases, and white in only 20% of the cases.
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Just Jokes Two guys are drinking at a bar. The first says "Do you ever start thinking about something, and when you go to talk, you say something you don't mean?" The Second guy says "Yeah, I was at the airport buying plane tickets, and the chick behind the counter had these huge tits, and instead of asking her for 'two tickets to Pittsburgh' I asked for 'two tickets to Titsburgh'." The First guy says, "Yeah, well I was having breakfast with my wife last week, and instead of saying 'Honey can you please pass me the sugar?', I said 'You've ruined my life you FUCKING BITCH.' The wife and I were sitting around the breakfast table one lazy Sunday morning. I said to her, "If I were to die suddenly, I want you to immediately sell all my stuff." "Now why would you want me to do something like that?" she asked. "I figure that you would eventually remarry and I don't want some other asshole using my stuff." She looked at me and said: "What makes you think I'd marry another asshole?" A woman goes into the gynecologist for her first pelvic exam. Feeling a little uncomfortable, the woman slowly undresses, covers herself with a sheet, and then crawls up onto the examining table. The doctor walks in and orders the woman to put her feet into the stirrups. The woman obeys, and the doctor pulls up a stool and starts the examination. After a few minutes the woman asks, "Is everything OK, doc?" The doctor replies, "God! You have a huge vagina!" The woman, feeling completely humiliated, says, "Well, you didn't have to say it twice!" The doctor looks up and says, "I didn't!" One evening a husband, thinking he was being funny, said to his wife, 'Perhaps we should start washing your clothes in Slim Fast. Maybe it would take a few inches off of your butt!!' His wife was not amused, and decided that she simply couldn't let such a comment go unrewarded. The next morning the husband took a pair of underwear out of his drawer. 'What the Hell is this??' he said to himself as a little 'dust' cloud appeared when he shook them out. 'April,' he hollered into the bathroom, 'Why did you put talcum powder in my underwear?' She replied with a snicker.... 'It's not talcum powder...... It's 'Miracle Grow'
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Black Woman Tells Obama, "I'm Exhausted of Defending You & Disappointed": Should We All Be? A black woman stood up in the Town Hall Meeting held by President Barack Obama on Monday and made a comment that got the attention of the world. She mentioned that she was "exhausted" from trying to defend the president to his critics: I am one of your middle class Americans and, quite frankly, I'm exhausted... I'm exhausted of defending you. I'm exhausted of defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for. And I'm deeply disappointed with where we are right now. I have been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. I am one of those people and I'm waiting sir. I'm waiting. I don't feel it yet. And I thought, while it wouldn't be in great measure, I would feel it in some small measure... And quite frankly Mr. President, I need you to answer this honestly: Is this my new reality? (Thelightnc.com) Let's put this into perspective. The woman's comment is reflective of what millions of Americans are experiencing. They are worried about keeping their jobs, their homes and their livelihoods. They are finding that the political reality of running the White House is not nearly as exciting as the idealistic notion of actually taking over the White House. They are also finding that America is ready to elect a black president, but not quite ready to support one. Former President Jimmy Carter made the issue plain last night on 'Larry King Live.' On the show, Carter said that Obama is being faced with arguably the most divisive Congress since Abraham Lincoln. He acknowledged that race plays a role in how the world deals with Obama, and that the president is handling the situation as best he can. I agree with that assessment completely, and I've always been impressed with Jimmy Carter as an honest and forthright human being. To that end, our president deserves to be defended. There are those with illegitimate critiques of Obama that reflect nothing more than the lynch mob mentality that has plagued black people since we first arrived on slave ships. All the while, Obama is not an innocent victim. Our president has chosen to play the game sometimes in ways that hardly any of us would play it. He has sold at least a part of his soul to elitist cronies from Harvard and Yale who care more about buying their next vacation home than taking care of the American people. He has chosen economic advisors who haven't even taken two minutes to acknowledge chronic unemployment in the African American community (which is nearly double the rate for whites). In many ways, the Obama Presidency has most certainly betrayed us, and to that extent, there is nothing to defend. Is Obama the best president for black America? No, he is not. Is he the best option made available to us? Yes, he is. Is he doing his best to run the White House? Most of the time. The point here is that defending Obama doesn't mean you love him without holding him accountable. But it does mean that we acknowledge the fact that Obama is dealing with something no president has ever had to deal with before, and for that, he should be commended.
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