"Dr. Kenneth Fife of the Indiana University School of Medicine, who was not involved in the study, noted that rates of infection are still disproportionately high among women and blacks. The study found 42 percent of blacks tested positive for herpes type 2, a decline of only 4 percent since 1994."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/08/22/national/a132624D85.DTL
So 42% of blacks have genital herpes. I'm sure a hell of a lot of blacks have other STDs but not genital herpes. Once you tally it up, I'm betting that around 80-90% of blacks have at least 1 STD.
So I don't think its racist to assume she probably has an STD just because she's black. Its probably accurate. If over 50% of them have one, then its true- if you're black, you probably have an STD.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/FastFacts-AA-FINAL508COMP.pdf - While blacks represent approximately 12 percent of the U.S. population, they account for almost half of people living with HIV in the U.S. (46%, or an estimated 510,100 persons), as well as nearly half of new infections each year (45%, or an estimated 24,900 infections). - Approximately one in 16 black men will be diagnosed with HIV during their lifetime, as will one in 30 black women. - Among blacks, men account for two-thirds of new HIV infections (65%). Women account for 35 percent. - An analysis by the Black AIDS Institute found that if black America were its own country, it would rank 16th in the world in the number of people with HIV — ahead of Ethiopia, Botswana, and Haiti. -Black women, the majority of whom are infected through heterosexual contact, are far more affected by HIV than women of other races. The rate of new HIV infections for black women is nearly 15 times as high as that of white women, and nearly four times as high as that of Hispanic women.
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