CDC Claims 21% Decline in New HIV Cases Among Black Women- Still Allegedly 60% of New Infections-Where's the Testing on Black Men?

I saw this over at For Harriet. I give the sideeye to almost every negative statistic about Black women published out there because they are almost always biased and framed in terms of OUR dysfunction. And they almost never include the stats for Black men.

This stat about a  decline in new HIV cases among Black women really doesn't reflect the current reality because it is based on data collected between 2008 and 2010- what took them 2 years to publish this? And how reliable is 2 year old data in predicting a "trend." For all we know, at this moment, the trend is headed upwards.  No seriously, this is the  age of super computers and the internet and cloud computing. Why did it take two years to compile and release this information?

 Also they don't explain why there was this drop. Did it drop due to sample size? Did it drop due to sample composition? Did it drop because Black women's blogs exploded in 2008 and helped Black women around the globe get a clue about their value and worth? I don't know because Dr. Donna Hubbard McCree didn't explain this. 

 Black women still make up 60% of all new infections among all women- which is inline with  Black women's maternal homicide rate, Black women's non-fatal violence rates and any number of horrifyingly bad stats where we over represent. Left out of this discussion is the infection rate among Black MEN which might explain all of the other bad stats. 

And before you say the Blogmother is imagining things, check out this report by headline news about Black marriage rates. Look at the rate for Black women and then the rate for Black men and then think about the way they framed the story--- as if the crisis is OURS.

P.S. Um why is Dr. Hubbard acting as if Black women won the lottery? Aim higher CDC. 

Rick Ross Raps about Drugging and Raping Women - Genarlow Wilson Supporters Would Approve

It bears repeating that Genarlow Wilson supporters think that this is normal behavior. Rick Ross rapping about the joys of drugging women and then raping them. Via Clutch Magazine. 

"Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it." - Rick Ross

For all of you who didn't KNOW that it's criminal to have sex with unconscious people, here's a PSA.

Their Silence Speaks for Itself: Zerlina Maxwell and Ebony Magazine's Rape Culture Hypocrisy

I think all doubt about Zerlina Maxwell being a Genarlow Wilson supporter has been erased. She is!  So I don't have anything else to say about the matter. Monday's post is a rock solid argument for why you cannot be best buddies with Genarlow Wilson and claim to be an advocate against rape and sexual assault. If you have not already, please read

Zerlina Maxwell and Ebony Magazine's Hypocrisy on Steubenville Rape Case- Will Tom Joyner Give Steubenville Rapist Ma'Lik Richmond a Free Morehouse Education?

- It is what it is.

To the appease-ers who always come out of the wood work crying out for moderation and are my sign that I am RIGHT. ON. TARGET, please read 

There is an US. There is a THEM: Solidarity is NOT an Excuse to be Stupid

If you don't like it, then you should get out in FRONT of me and address the matter before I do. But you haven't and you won't and for that reason, I'm not listening to you. Your tolerance of evil is evil. 

Zerlina Maxwell's Inconvenient Truth: L.M. and How Black Media Erased a Rape Victim

So Monday I pointed out the hypocrisy of Ebony magazine and their commentator Zerlina Maxwell. Both Ebony and Ms. Maxwell have been tweeting heavily and other things related to the Steubenville rape trial. Ms. Maxwell has been very vocal about "consent" and the need to focus on victims. That would be a great thing if Ms. Maxwell was not also a public supporter of rapist Genarlow Wilson. 

Since, Monday's post, Ms. Maxwell has done everything BUT clarify how she can be both a supporter of rapist Genarlow Wilson and the victim in the Steubenville trial. She continues to be silent on how she can say that unconscious victims cannot consent in one case, while apparently deciding that they can in another. . You can read Monday's post, it has a detailed account of Ms. Maxwell's public statements. 

Zerlina has had more than enough time to clarify matters, she's also had time to dispatch her relatives on Facebook for some Facebook thuggin'. Well this is a new tactic... the family facebook assault. 

To Yvette Williams Maxwell ( Zerlina's Mom) and Rebekah V. Maxwell (Zerlina's sister) and any other stray Maxwells that want to engage in Facebook thuggery, this all isn't really about Zerlina. It's about a girl the courts refer to as L.M.

Most people who think they are familiar with the Genarlow Wilson mythology have never heard of L.M. and there is a reason for that - members of the press and Black punditocracy erased her. Wiped her out. Because to acknowledge that she existed was to concede that Genarlow Wilson was no tragic figure, but a predator and a creep.

Genarlow Wilson, the man, couldn't stand up to their narrative, so they created Genarlow Wilson, the myth, and removed LM from history as if what Genarlow Wilson and his teammates did to her didn't happen and didn't matter. The press threw her in the trash much like Genarlow Wilson and his teammates threw her on the floor when they got through with her. 

LM, went to a party with her fellow athletes and when she fell unconscious, possibly after they drugged her, Genarlow Wilson and his buddies raped her, repeatedly and video taped it. That's not what I say, that's what the Georgia Court of Appeals describes in Wilson vs. State of Georgia.

A group of teenagers rented adjacent rooms at a motel and held a raucous, unsupervised New Year's Eve party.   Among the participants were 17-year-old Genarlow Wilson, 17-year-old L.M., and 15-year-old T.C.   The next morning, L.M. reported to her mother that she had been raped.   Police were notified, and the motel rooms were searched.   During the search, a videocamera and videocassette tape were found.   The tape showed Wilson having sexual intercourse with an apparently semiconscious L.M. and T.C. performing oral sex on Wilson. Wilson v. State. 

But here's the kicker, Genarlow Wilson's defense team tried to use the fact that LM was unconscious to exclude the tape of Mr. Wilson raping her. If she was unconscious, they argued, she could not authenticate the tape. They probably made this argument in an evidentiary hearing outside the hearing of the jury. 

Here, L.M. was a witness who appeared at trial and might have provided personal authentication of the videotape by testifying that it accurately portrayed what took place at the time of the occurrence of the events in question.¹⁸  She could not, however, provide such testimony because she had lost consciousness as a result of drug and alcohol use.   Although L.M. did regain consciousness during some of the events and did recall Wilson attempting to have sexual intercourse with her and trying to force her to give him oral sex, she did not have any independent recollection of the events depicted on the videotape.   L.M. was, therefore, an unavailable witness under OCGA § 24-4-48, as she testified “to a lack of memory of the subject matter of the authentication.” ^{19 Wilson V. State.}

Now I can't be the only one that sees parallels in the fact pattern in the case of L.M. and Jane Doe in the Steubenville case. And if you think it looks bad that Zerlina Maxwell can be so vocal about consent in the Jane Doe case while eliminating L.M. from her writing on Genarlow Wilson and publically supporting him on the same Twitter acount she's pledging solidarity with Jane Doe-- it looks bad because it IS bad. 

Genarlow Wilson supporters HATE when I mention L.M. because the legal argument has long since been settled, what remained is a moral argument-

• Should the Black community and it's institutions have turned Genarlow Wilson into a folk hero?
• Should they have given him awards?
• Should they have given him a free college education?
• Should they have paid for his publicists (yes he has them- they've whined to me)?
• Should he be rewarded with a book deal?
• Is a man who rapes an unconscious girl worthy of this kind of status in the Black community?
• Should advocates of survivors of rape and sexual assault be cheering Genarlow Wilson on via the same twitter account that they pledge solidarity with Jane Doe in the Steubenville case?
• What kind of message did the Black Elite Establishment send to LM and other girls like her? Do they even care?

The sad truth is that many of you, like Zerlina Maxwell, want to ignore these moral questions because they are inconvenient. And that's your choice, but don't get mad when we point out the moral inconsistency in your position. There is a simple way for Maxwell to correct this situation, but she might be too panicked to actually be a grown woman and do it. 

Maxwell needs to step up and admit her misguided deed. Leave Momma and n'em out of it and carry your own water. It does not hurt to say...'I once believed this was okay BUT I have since seen the error of my ideas.' Its just that easy. WAOD Fan Page

The truth... it will set you free. And based on the behavior of your Mother and Sister on Facebook, I'm thinking you feel pretty trapped right about now. So let me help you, your response might start something like this:

Dear L.M.,

I'm sorry....

Zerlina Maxwell and Ebony Magazine's Hypocrisy on Steubenville Rape Case- Will Tom Joyner Give Steubenville Rapist Ma'Lik Richmond a Free Morehouse Education?

Updated on Monday, March 18, 2013 at 11:41PM by The Blogmother

This post could have easily have been called- What Happens When Genarlow Wilson Supporters Change their Tune on "Consent." Because I've been arguing with these people for YEARS that an unconscious girl can't consent and an underage girls can't consent if the law says she cant. Now all of a sudden folks are becoming the poster children for the Steubenville rape victim and I think their previous statements regarding Genarlow Wilson and consent are relevant.

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