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HIV-Positive Toddler Banned From Pool
July 12th, 2007
A couple says their vacation was ruined when an RV park owner told them they weren’t welcome after discovering their 2-year-old foster son had the HIV virus.
Last week, Dick and Silvia Glover went to the Wales West RV Park in Silver Hill, Ala., with their foster son Caleb. When the boy was banned from using the pool and showers, the Glovers said they were offered an uncomfortable and painful choice: They could either keep Caleb out of the water or leave.
blackvoices.aol.com/black_news/headlines_features/canvas_news_articles/_a/hiv-positive-toddler/20070709074509990001
I responded to this article elsewhere and decided to make my response a post:
Getting Aids the way this guy said, and claiming we don’t know the risk, is BS. Do you know those statements are not just reminiscent, but almost word for word the same ones being made 25 years ago do to the Aids hysteria of the early years?
Coincidentally I’ve been watching this documentary recently called The Age of Aids, (which I stringently recommend to everyone. You don’t even have to buy it like I did, you can watch it online) and you can see in there where people said that shit in the earlier 80s, and this fool still doesn’t know how aids is transmitted.
It’s amazing that this stuff still goes on. You’d think the days of Ryan White and the Ray brothers were over, with all the knowledge of Aids we have now and having lived with it for so long; but obviously they’re not. Maybe somebody should send that dumb fuck Ryan’s book.
A relevant clip from the Age of Aids:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/view/5.html?as=1&c=1wm
You can skip to the 6 minute mark if you want to hear about Ryan, the Ray brothers and Dwayne Mowery.
If you keep watching past that part, listening for how your boy, now Chief Justice Roberts, played a role in furthering the hysteria.
By: D. Yobachi Boswell
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That is simply disgusting. It is one of those things that you would think people know by now. Then again, there are any things going on in this country that you think people would know about by now. That is so sad for the family.
The question is how do the parents explain it to their child? Is 2 too young to learn about prejudice or should they indoctrinate him with the harsh truth now?
Natalie, II don’t know if it’s necessary in this situation since
there was no big cnfrentation where child would have been directly subeject to the prejudice..But all and allyou could explain it to some degree. Children tend to be able to understand things on some level.
I think some people choose to bask in their ignorance.
It is ignorance like this that scares me on a grand scale when it comes to the state of the world in which we live!It is a sin that a young boy who is already dealing with health challenges is denied the right to the simple pleasure of swimming in a pool simply because some uneducated simpleton.
“It is ignorance like this that scares me on a grand scale when it comes to the state of the world ”
I feel the same way Angela!!!
People’s wanton ignorance is flabber gasting, but unfortunately, increasinly not surprising to me.
Oh my he’s only two years of age. My heart hurts because I can only imagine what his life would be like with this disease. I hope they are able to give him the neccessary tools to counter such ignorance and hatred.
Yeah, It must be something else to be born with a fatal disease.