It depends….on their level of education, socialization, resources, and consciousness about caring for other people.
Not everybody within the panopticon called race is healthy and some of them are unhealthy due to racialization. Here in NYC, the HIV infection rate is projected to shake out to 50% of LGBTSGL men of color will be infected within the next 20 years. I go online or to parties or to make presentations and there’s practically bare-backing going on in the seats. Prep users and Prep liars—-amazingly enough so many minority men who can’t afford to live alone or in better neighborhoods or to pay for school can suddenly come up with $300 out of pocket for Prep so it’s cool to fuck raw. HIV rates highest among men of color under 28. There are three neighborhoods here in NY, Brooklyn—-Bed Stuy, Brownsville, and Harlem, Manhattan that has infection rates that rival sub-Saharan Africa.
So here I am, brown as the floor, HIV negative, looking at my dating pool, even being an instructor about the dating pool. And I have to critically consider what is a truth to tell and a truth to ignore. A truth to tell is that racialization, poverty, disenfranchisement and self-destructive tendencies have men of color, MSM, fucking themselves to death. Check out how much barebacking porn there is. The very act that was trained, inculcated from the 1980s through the 1990s intensively and then in the 2000s, certain sex couldn’t be done without protection, is now normalized to entertainment. That’s right up there with putting webcams in Auschwitz rooms and shoving people in then turning on the gas…and the cameras at $1.99 a minute.
So yeah, I have to be….considerate, cautious, thoughtful, careful and questioning with Black and Latino men about their sexual habits, about what they do and don’t do because somewhere in the apple pie they’ve tossed out self-concern and sure as hell aren’t thinking about concern for me, their “brother”, when they get hard. And sometimes that makes me sad or mad or tired or have to change friends because part of my life path is parenting. And children need you as healthy and long living as possible to raise them. So all the HIV-accept folk-anti-stigma rhetoric only works for me when applied to the conscious, responsible folk, infected or not, who think of other humans before they think about their own nut.
That abhorrent mentality of “fuck it” bluntly,when it comes to safe sex, means that yes, I’m racist when it comes to dealing with Black and Latino men, meaning I ascribe a question, a bias, a concern based upon race from possible predetermined or stereotypical behaviors, …and yes, the Whites, the Asians, the Native Americans, two Samoans and five Brazilians too. Everybody.
But some races due to harsher psychological treatment by the society at large and a lack of community resources, are more sexually self-destructive than others.
Smile, Kyle
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