"OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA" : A Massive Mischievous Marvel Of Molding Muck [ .net ]

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James M. Driskill

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Aug 24, 2006, 12:29:51 PM8/24/06
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Dear Local HIV Community Oakland CA:
 
 
Americas Leadership Initiative for AIDS Competence in Cities

P. Addressing vulnerability

• How to make this issue a high priority that is addressed early on?  If no one feels they started early enough, how should it be done?

- Oakland:
Needs grassroots advocacy, time and political enrollment;
need to get community to pressure local government to make it a priority.
                                                                                                 
 
 
I think it will be obvious after the airing of this news segment on AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA [ABC 7 NEWS PRIMETIME 10PM TONIGHT THURSDAY AUG 24 2006]  and that Oakland is one of the hubs of Black Aids Americas that is very relevant to what happened to me.
 
I attempted to reinforce what is right vs. wrong in all of this mess that you placed me though.  I attempt to contact Doctor Robert Scott in November 2005 and then write him a letter via email and fax that I have previous posted here first thing in June 2006.
 
My eviction case was brought forth in "Legal Necessity" because I see people... black and white people dying under your regime in Oakland and Alameda County and the surrounding area.   Also a factor is under direct "legal duress" from the administrator and inaction of their obligated "supportive" management in which they fail under HUD section 811 requirements.
 
What is wrong with you people?
 
I wonder how much of what is going on is going to be aired in tonight's broadcast.
 
Dear Ms Espiratu:  I will be making a copy of this broadcast so that it also can be placed into my file.
 
Thank you.
 
Dear City Aids Americas: You have been given my efforts in all of this since November forward. 
 
What do you think?  It is a massive mischievous marvel of molding muck.
 
 
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Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:39 AM
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"OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA" : A Massive Mischievous Marvel Of Molding Muck [ .net ]

 
Ms Espiritu:
 
I have faxed a fax last week that I want in my file.
I sent a voice mail this morning (Sunday) that refers to this TV SPECIAL
And Now I have emailed this to you with the attention of City Aids Americas
in which they were placed in transit of my entire conflict with Oakland Services and
into my attempt to regain a bit of dignity over the entire situation.  Realize that I created
the google group "LOCAL HIV COMMUNITY OAKLAND CA USA" in my attempts
to resolve the issues.
 
I have been persecuted and out casted from Oakland as a Pariah.
 
I deserve an apology and praise --- for which your services and community fail. 
My eviction case speaks for itself.
 
I have registered MassiveMischievousMarvelOfMoldingMuck.NET and GRUWUP.NET on my first day
of homelessness.  Wow, you all should be ashamed of yourselves.  What is wrong with you people?
 
I AM NOT GOING TO GO AWAY ---- I HAVE FRIENDS UNDER YOUR REGIME OF DECEPTION AND CORRUPTION!

Mr. James M. Driskill
 
 
As I sent Recently:
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 6:02 PM
Subject: Fw: HIV L.A. 2003 / 2004 : A Comprehensive directory to HIV/AIDS services in Los Angeles County

Dear Mr Person et all.
 
How can I be nice when our county services suck. 
 
I attempt to engage Ms Ann Speyer in a dialog regarding just this sort of resource way way way back before my eviction situation.  You know this, because you were in transit of my emails way back then.
 
I even attempt to engage in dialog with Doctor Robert Scott, --- FAILED!
 
YOU ALL FAIL!
 
What is wrong with you people?
 
I SEE PEOPLE NEEDLESSLY SUFFERING AND DIEING.
 
What is wrong with you people?
 
Mr James M. Driskill
 
FUCKEDUPHUMAN.NET registered in honor of this failed system in Alameda County.
 
A public walk in on my aggenda when the weather turns from bitter hot to falltime cool.
 
Do I get an appolgy?
 
 
 
 
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THE SILENT KILLER IN THE U.S.

"OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA"

ON A SPECIAL EDITION OF "PRIMETIME" THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 ON ABC
 
Reported by Terry Moran with a special segment featuring Peter Jennings
 
While the world marked the 25th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS this summer, one important story in the epidemic was largely ignored ---until now.

"OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA" is the first national network television news documentary on the AIDS epidemic among African Americans--- an epidemic that is spreading fast, but that has attracted little consistent attention from leaders in public health, politics, or religion. Terry Moran reports on the crisis in a special edition of "Primetime" on on THURSDAY, AUGUST 24 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

Included in the report is a group interview conducted by Peter Jennings shortly before his cancer diagnosis. Jennings, who played a significant role in conceptualizing the program, speaks with a group of HIV positive African American men in Atlanta who are remarkably candid about the harsh realities of dealing with AIDS in Black America.

Black Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population but account for over 50% of all new cases of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That infection rate is eight times the rate of whites. Among women, the numbers are even more shocking--- almost 70% of all newly diagnosed HIV positive women in the U.S. are Black women. Black women are 23 times more likely to be diagnosed with AIDS than white women, with heterosexual contact being the overwhelming method of infection in Black America.

"In America today, AIDS is virtually a Black disease, by any measure," says Phill Wilson, Executive Director of The Black AIDS Institute in Los Angeles. Wilson also points out that while many Black American leaders and celebrities have embraced the cause of the epidemic's toll in Africa, few have devoted similar energy to the crisis here at home.

In interviews with AIDS activists, doctors, and people on the front lines of the epidemic, "OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA" paints a sobering and shocking portrait of the disease, and the failure of leadership that has allowed the epidemic to spiral into a crisis in small towns and inner cities across the country.

Terry Moran talks to experts in several key areas about what contributes to the spread of AIDS in Black America, including the disproportionate number of Black men in prison. Prisons have AIDS infection rates five times higher than outside the walls, and many men go into prison HIV negative and come out infected, often without knowing it.


"OUT OF CONTROL" also reports the results of studies from the Universities of Chicago and North Carolina which shed light on a complex reality that helps explain why heterosexual transmission among African Americans is so common: Black men are more than twice as likely as white men to have multiple female partners at the same time. Rates of all sexually transmitted diseases are higher among African Americans than other groups, and once those rates start to rise, says Dr. Jim Thomas of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "It starts a cycle. Because now when a person goes to have sex with someone, the chances that the new partner is already infected are relatively high."

And because homosexuality and bisexuality carry such a strong stigma in Black America, African American men may choose to hide their sexual orientation. Men who have sex with men, and then also have sex with women without necessarily telling their female partners about their male encounters, is another topic covered in back to back roundtable discussions led by Jennings and Moran. Black men and women talk openly for the first time about sexual patterns in Black America, denial, secrecy, and shame. "I know of few communities as conservative as the African American community, especially about sex," says Debra Fraser-Howze, CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS in New York. "And when it comes to homosexuality, it's a real problem. Nobody wants to talk about it."
Moran also reports on the role of the Black Church, traditionally the most powerful source of political and social activism in Black America. Black churches have been silent on AIDS, says The Rev. Calvin Butts III, Senior Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. "When you see the numbers going up, you know you have not done enough," he says. Elizabeth Arledge is the producer of "OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA" Kayce Freed Jennings is the Senior Producer; Tom Yellin is the Executive Producer.


*** To obtain a screener copy of the Special Edition of "Primetime" OUT OF CONTROL: AIDS IN BLACK AMERICA, please email ABC News Media Relations andrea...@abc.com or call ABC News Media Relations 202-222-6896 or 212-456-4934.
 
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