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By: jelana

jelana — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:15:44 +0000

That is certainly the truth. My 27 year old nephew has it and he has to have a whole body blood transfer every 5 weeks. It is unbelievable what he has to endure. My sister and her husband were both tested for the trait, but her husband was misdiagnosed.

By: southernbelle

southernbelle — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:39:15 +0000

they test african americans automatically now. in the past this wasn't the case. so it is very rare that one wouldn't know if they have the trait. but to your point about prevention, you would be surprised at the amount of people who know they have the trait & still have children. if they saw someone in a crisis they would rethink that decision long & hard.

By: jelana

jelana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:44 +0000

By: southernbelle

southernbelle — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:39:15 +0000

By: morphus

morphus — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:42:14 +0000

Understand. The bad stats perhaps should not be viewed as downer but helpful to give focus to change or fight for policy decisions.

By: ch555x

ch555x — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:10:03 +0000

I suppose it's hard for me to accept that we're practically everywhere in these so-called bad stats. You'd think we'd be extinct as a people!

>_<

By: jelana

jelana — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:46:40 +0000

We also need to be tested for the trait before we have children–males & females. When both parents have the trait, a sickle cell child will most likely be born. Prevention is a necessity.

By: Town

Town — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:48:41 +0000

Don't even get me worked up again on Deeds. LOL

Well, don't forget, redistricting is next year and the Pat Robertson crew now has control. I wouldn't be surprised if these mofos didn't draw Scott's district to make him weaker (right now all the black people from Richmond to Newport News are lumped together). D's probably thinking he'll have a shot at shutting down Bobby Scott once the Thugs get finished playing their Etch-a-Sketch with Virginia.

Drawing a weak district for Scott is the only way D or any other teabagger will be able to get him out of office. Most of the Richmond teabaggers live in the 7th District.

By: CPL

CPL — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:33:41 +0000

He did keep asking me about what kind of representative Bobby Scott was. I told him the man was a solid progressive and that didn't sit well with D.

I always wondered if he had plans for challenging Scott. I just hope that McDonnell's victory isn't giving this brotha ideas; McDonnell won because Deeds ran a piss-poor campaign and didn't get Moran and Obama to schill for him until it was too late.

By: CPL

CPL — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:31:37 +0000

You ain't neva lied.

Unless Bobby Scott royally screws up, D has his work cut out for him, considering the GOP's track record in helping out the brothas in their party.

D would be better served getting a job in McDonnell's administration, as opposed to challenging a 20 year incumbent in Norfolk, but he'll learn that lesson when no cheddar gets thrown his way. If the GOP sees no benefit in having Scott's seat, they won't throw money in that direction.

Right now, looks like the Conservatives and the Moderates of the ReThug party are going to spend the next year eating their own, if the New York race is any indication.

By: rikyrah

rikyrah — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:02:22 +0000

He WAS at home in California, wasn't he? Don would have been comfortable on one level, but I do think he likes the ' role' that he plays as hubby.

By: RobM

RobM — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:36:03 +0000

The Breck girl has no idea what she wants. I've no sympathy for Don because for all his empathy for everyone else he has no idea what it means for his wife. Part of it is he bought into what a wife is supposed to be June Cleaver, yet he is so unsuited for it. He also had to become married or he would have been accused of being a homosexual and cut off at the knees. It is why until the school teacher careful in letting people see whom he is sleeping w/.Had he been able to wait to marry he would have taken off to California w/ the school teacher type after the payoff of selling the firm. Remeber the West Coast eay girl was part of an upper class he wasn;t exposed to. it was a little alien in its lack of monogamy.
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By: blksista

blksista — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:34:17 +0000

I'm really sorry to hear about Maine, but I also knew that it was very close.

Re Houston: watch the hate really start.

By: rikyrah

rikyrah — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:11:31 +0000

EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP

By: rikyrah

rikyrah — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:31:19 +0000

Senate votes 98-0 to extend Unemployment Benefits

By: Town

Town — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:22:17 +0000

LOL good luck with that. Maybe McDonnell can help him out. I'm not trying to be funny but the Va. GOP didn't help Winsome Sears out and didn't help Paul Harris out, so unless they truly are trying to reach into their big tent and reach out to minorities they aren't going to help D out either.

By: Miranda

Miranda — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:43:44 +0000

Is Obama inspiring black men to step up?

(CNN) -- The Natural Edges Salon in Dallas, Texas, is a rowdy barbershop where black men gather to loudly talk smack, politics and sports.
But on one wintry November morning last year, the men suddenly stopped talking. Someone turned the radio off, and the barbers' clippers stopping humming. A man had just challenged the customers' manhood.

The man was President-elect Obama. He was giving a televised speech challenging men to get involved in their communities.
The men had heard the message before, but this time they could relate to the messenger. Obama had shared their struggles -- raised by a single mom, never really knowing his father -- but had never used his struggles as an excuse.

Nor could they anymore, some of the men decided. Seven joined Big Brothers Big Sisters of America that morning, barber Michael Johnson says. One of them was Johnson, who says he grew up without his father but was saved by the friendship of an older man.
"I just said, 'You know what, I can do this today instead of tomorrow,' " Johnson said. '' 'Tomorrow may be too late. I can save a young man's life today.' "
Full Article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/11/04/obama.effe...