I sent the article below out on Twitter (meckcommish) and posted it to Facebook (meckcommish) several days ago but the level of danger to the public is high. The story is about a recent CDC report and the frankly preposterous attempts to explain away a high level of STD's among one segment of the population. I believe this article and its conclusions deserves its own e-newsletter from me.

There is a huge amount of 'politically correct' fear that runs through America, the media, newsrooms, and government press releases. This story is a good 'Example A' why the truth is not longer discussed rationally and because of this no workable solutions come from Government.

If you write an article that states a fact alone that presents a group in a bad light you will be blasted and called some pejorative term.

So here is the story. The realities are that 1 in 6 US citizens (16% of Americans 14 to 49) have Herpes (a sexually transmitted disease).

48% (roughly 1/2) of Black women in the US 14 to 49 have herpes (over three times the rate for whites generally). 39% of Blacks overall and 12% of whites. You do the math.

So since there is a clear implication that Blacks are being more promiscuous than other races and since that could be used as a stereotype the MSM writer adds this little fake gem:

"the increased rate of infection in blacks is not due to increased risk behavior but likely due to biological factors that make women more susceptible"

Horsehocky !

So, while 1/2 of an entire gender/race (14 to 49) in the US has an STD, the writers try and spin this medical (and moral) travesty to basically mean that they aren't more promiscuous but have 'bad genes'? What a crock (and what a slam against the other groups that don't have those STD rates and by extension were not as promiscuous or immoral).

How convenient to explain away bad behavior by saying 'my genes made me do it' or that 'my genes' caused a higher reporting level (the implication being that white Americans are just as randy and promiscuous, they just have 'better genes').

This is one good reason the public ignores the Main-stream-Media. They don't' trust the MSM's to really provide the truth or government to accept the truth and actually fix the problem.

So if 'genetics' does play a role would it account for over 3 times the rate of infection between white and black Americans 14 to 49?

No, and they know it. This is about trying to be politically 'correct'.  This is about a fear that stating the facts and admitting a problem would be turned into a stereotype about Black promiscuity or angry protests from those who live to protest against anything they perceive to not be 'PC' for their cause.  

The inability of a news organization to discuss this subject rationally is exactly why nothing ever gets done to fix the problem. You can't fix what you don't admit exists or when you try and claim that illicit liaisons aren't the cause or that all groups are infected equally or behave exactly the same.

Every time the subject of the rate of STD's, illegitimate births and other stats come up and it is clear that the problem is much larger in the Black community there are those that try to make excuses, call names or ignore the problem. To mention it is to then be subjected to harassment and name calling.

In the process the average guy and gal know ''whats up" and so the MSM has become irrelevant to any attempts to fix the problem. Come to think of it, government is also irrelevant because it doesn't require the problem be fixed - only that taxes be extracted for programs that pretend to address the problem (without mentioning it specifically).

When Government does put up money for programs they don't tailor the program to where the problem is worse because that would infer that the level of promiscuity is concentrated there. As a result - tons of money get wasted.

Blacks do not have 1/2 of their female population (age 14 to 49) infected because they sat on a toilet seat and it is not wholly because of 'genetics' so those in positions of power including the clergy should stop pretending that the problem is the same in every race, culture or creed. It is a prevarication of monumental proportions that costs US taxpayers a ton of money. The problem is worse in the African-American community because there is more promiscuous behavior and it has to be fixed there and programs have to be tailor there.

So far, African-American ministers and others seem to have zero interest collectively fixing the problem but there are those few brave souls that try.

I would also point out that when 1/2 of a group of females (ages14 to 49) has STD's more than 1/2 are step'n out on their significant other (if they have one) because not all illicit liaisons result in STD's. What this means is that the 'behavior' of promiscuity among that group has become the dominate one, common place accepted behavior (as bad as that is).

Now why should I (or you care) what consenting adults do? Because these levels of STD's and higher levels of promiscuous behavior result in higher levels of out of wedlock births, more poverty and therefore higher welfare payments to take care of those innocent babies created by a system that is more interested in being PC than in solving the problem.

It is frankly unacceptable that something ravaging the US is basically ignored because folks all around it are so 'PC' they can't bring themselves to address it with specificity. We will wail about H1N1 and work ourselves into a frenzy about being vaccinated but ignore frank and direct talk on other communicable diseases (STD's) and work to stop the 'bad behavior' that creates the problem.

Of course, I can't mention the word 'moral' to denote bad behavior as to do so would indicate  'disapproval' of the behavior and in the world of PC'er - all behavior is a 'unique expression of cultural identity' and not to be diss'd.

Well, I do use the term immoral to denote my disapproval of both the immorality of the act of being promiscuous, the immorality of government's actions that refuse to accept reality, and the immorality of MSM's in trying to explain away what is occurring with a lie.