D_Miranda_Wrights
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And just where are you getting your data that black males have higher rates of drug use?
A gaffe like that begs the question.
He's right that higher rates of injection drug use are potentially an issue. It's also suggested that cultural attitudes about homosexuality prompt more gay black men to have reckless sex while they're closeted. In any case, asking HIV patients about drug use and sexual history suggests these (men who have sex with men; IV drugs) are major causes of HIV disproportionately affecting blacks.
Some accounts have black males using illicit drugs at comparable rates to whites; others have them using at higher rates. Studies of HIV-infected people indicate that blacks account for about 52% of HIV cases among injection drug users (cite.) Whatever the case is, we know blacks are overrepresented among HIV cases, and they're overrepresented among injection drug users who test HIV-positive. This could also mean that they lie about having sex with other men. In any case, more blacks get HIV infections from injection drug use than whites, which obviously suggests disproportionate exposure from injection drug use versus whites. Does that mean they use injection drugs more often? Almost certainly, but technically not knowable from that stat.
(Just fyi, "begs the question" actually means "assumes a conclusion is true in the question given," not "means the question is important.")