The HIV/AIDS epidemic was first reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) back in 1981. And theories like the one made by Bryan Fischer, that the deadly virus was somehow made to destroy those of African descent, immediately began circulating.
South African President Thabo Mbeki once accused the U.S. government of manufacturing the disease in their military labs while world-renowned Kenyan ecologist, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Wangari Maathai used her international spotlight to highlight the conspiracy theory about the creation of HIV/AIDS.
After accepting her award, the first African female Nobel receiver used her acceptance platform to state, that the deadly virus was created as a biological weapon by the west to wipe out Africans:
“AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the Black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, ” according to Maathai.
Remember Pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright who was denounced by President Barack Obama for giving sermons in which he blamed the government for creating a racist state and “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color," and Bryan Fischer agrees:
The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer went off on a particularly bizarre anti-gay rant, timed to coincide with National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on Feb. 7.
As Right Wing Watch first reported, Fischer deemed HIV/AIDS "black genocide," and slammed the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in the process.
"If you are for the legalization of homosexuality, you are for the acceptability of homosexuality, you are for the normalization of homosexuality, you do not care about black males," Fischer, whose opposition to LGBT causes is, of course, well-documented, told listeners on his "Focal Point" radio show.
He then added, "So why am I opposed to the normalization of homosexual behavior? Because I love black males."
Fischer referenced a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which stated, "Blacks make up only 12 percent of the U.S. population but had nearly half (44 percent) of all new HIV infections in the United States in 2010. Half of new HIV infections in blacks were in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men."
Fischer's claims may seem far fetched, but to many people of color, he is credible in his claims.
In 2005, a study was conducted by the research organization the Rand Corporation and Oregon State University that stated that a large proportion of African Americans still embraced the notion that AIDS/HIV was designed for the sole purpose of wiping them out as a people.
Close to half of the 500 African Americans surveyed by the researchers said that HIV is man-made, more than one-quarter said they believed that AIDS was produced in a government laboratory, and 12 percent believed it was created and spread by the CIA. Fifty-three percent said they believed that a cure for AIDS is being withheld from the poor. About 16 percent agreed that AIDS was created by the government to control the Black population. Lastly, about 15 percent said AIDS is a form of genocide against Black people.
No matter if you believe that the virus was created by the government, or that it was passed on from monkeys to humans back in 1930, the fact remains that the African-American community has been hit the hardest by this epidemic.
In 2009, blacks made up a dismal 14 percent of the U.S. population but shockingly they accounted for 44 percent of all new HIV infections.
Young black gay and bisexual men are especially at risk of HIV infection, with a new study conducted last year revealing that in 30 years--70 percent of black gay men in their 20's will be HIV positive! With bareback sex on this rise in the gay community, it is important that black gay men understand how to protect themselves and others.
Not only that, but those who are positive need to be accountable and be proactive with their regimen so that they may live long and healthy lives.
[SOURCE]