Wince-worthy: Atlanta’s HIV diagnosis percentages compare to, wait for it, Africa.
This is pretty much the face I made when I read the headline; just the headline. Not just any old part of Africa, but the Third World status parts of Africa.
Like, I know it’s a serious issue, and AIDS shouldn’t really be a laughing matter, but come on now. Busting out a story like this is just begging for all sorts of criticism, but given the fact that depending on whom you ask in the media, there’s no such thing as bad publicity, WSB is swinging at some pretty low-hanging fruit at releasing an article like this one.
It’s no secret that Atlanta is a city with an extremely heavy African-American population. But then to go and seek out scientific evidence that a predominantly African-American area actually share one of the less reputable stereotypes about Africans in Third World Africa in general? That’s some fucked up shit, man.