CDC says genital herpes is still a 'serious health threat' and Doctors particular reluctant to discus sexual health with Black male patients.
This continues to be a pretty big issue for us. Honestly, I don't know what the solution is. In the end we have to be responsible for ourselves. That's all I'll say on that.
What caught my eye was this. Okay this paragraph is the very last one in the post so I guess "caught my eye" isn't accurate but its a gem. Anyway, the quote:
And, according to CDC experts, while African-American women and men are often unwilling to get tested, doctors are often reluctant to discuss sexual health with their patients -- particularly with black male patients.
Okay family, that's us negros, let's talk. The rest of you have to sit this one out. I love all my people. Some of you are concerning even to me, so I know you scare other people. Yet, never in all my life would I have thought that I'd read anything such as this. Brothers, my brothers we can't be scaring the doctors so much that they're afraid to tell us something's wrong with our equipment.
This is serious business I know, but that is funny as hell. There is a doctor somewhere in America tonight, who's afraid that if he has the audacity to tell a brother there's something wrong with his package, the brothers going to what? Pistol whip him some. I need Dave Chappelle to write the skit and act in it of course. Dave Chappelle would play this white doctor and it would be some "Big Thugdom" type cat playing a patient who's got some parasites living in his pipes. The first time the Dr. meets the patient he's jumpy and scared. Then later that week when the Dr. gets the results he's like, "I'll just mail them. He probably can't read anyway." Then trying to be the doctor he singed on to be, he contacts "Big Thugdom" for a followup and ask him to come in. He becomes obsessed with the idea that telling BT he's got the drips is going to result in gun play. That's the way I see it in my mind's eye though. It's hilarious and sad.
On some level it hurts me that some of us are just negative caricatures one way or another to other races and they don't see us as people or human or nice. Yeah I laugh at that because the idea of supposed professionally educated people who have earned (some of them) their craft at great expense can ascribe to such foolery as this. In the same beat of the heart, I do know that some of us while not literally this bad off (hopefully) do to their own detriment inspire such fear and second guessing.
It leaves me very conflicted. I know us. Hell I am us and I know that we're not all the same but at the same time the inclination is there to say how dare they... Whatever.
