LZ Granderson
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1,280 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2024
last heard 20 Jul
LZ Granderson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And no one dies of HIV AIDS and no one's contracting HIV AIDS today more than black men.
And so to have this black man continue to characterize our community as other than when we've always been here, ride or die, marching in the streets, bleeding in the streets, organizing right next to you this entire time, that sort of gap there between historical fact and trying to make a joke, that's where people are dying.
because that's where homophobia comes in.
And that's where shame festers.
And that's where we're losing people we don't need to be losing today because we have all the medications that we have at our hands to keep our healthy life.
Women.
You know, particularly black women, one of the fastest rising groups in contracting HIV AIDS, Don.
You know, I believe 20% of all new HIV AIDS patients in 2021 were women, 20%.
So I know that I talk a lot about this through the prism of my blackness and my sexual orientation, but if you're a heterosexual woman,
Um, 20% of women are catching HIV AIDS.
So this is a conversation for you as well.
And, you know, I don't know if you remember Don that episode, there was a narrative of girlfriends, um, back in the day and it was like, yeah, they had like a two or three episodes arc in terms of trying to get black women specifically to talk about and think about HIV AIDS.
And that was like 20 years ago.
And fast forward 20 years and black women are still catching HIV AIDS at a very, very high rate.
And it's not because we aren't talking about it, but it's because of the shame.
And so I'm hoping that, you know, if people have, you know, like my work, you know, see me on television, watch ESPN or whatever it is, tennis, whatever.
Like, if you think I'm cool, if you're down with how I approach life, well, I'm positive.
and you know there's nothing wrong with me i'm perfectly cool i'm still the same dude it's just we need to normalize that and you need to normalize that in our everyday circles because there are people that we don't know about who are quietly dying in the shadows because of shame and we need to really stop doing that i was at uh i hosted the native sun awards um just last week and uh emo it was the first time i heard you know emo wilberkin right and he's a yeah yeah yes of course the native
And that's an icon.
He was running Vibe magazine when Biggie was, you know what I'm saying?
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