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I think we're jumping to conclusions here, folks. Yes, blacks have suffered inordinately from AIDS, what she said is totally and completely true. There is also a lot of support for the idea that AIDS was a human development, not the mere result of natural evolution. But how is pointing these two things out, along with a host of other things, a claim that it was developed specifically to target blacks? I didn't find that anywhere in her words, even between the lines looking for it.
What is completely there is the note that Africa, in particular black Africa, is bearing the brunt of the epidemic while recieving precious little relative aid in dealing with it. Say what you will, but if I were a black African, you'd have a hard time convincing me that there wasn't some element of racism, be it overt or underlying, playing into the situation.
I don't think that there is much medical finding that the negroid racial lines are substantially more vulnerable to the HIV virus than Caucasians or anyone else, so that to me would indicate that if man-made, it wasn't targetted specifically against blacks. No, I think that if there are any underlying claims of racism in her speech, it was not that they were initially targetted by AIDS, but that they have been shafted in the level of support received in battling AIDS.
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