This is worth checking out- http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/civil_rights/
Most of the objectives inspire great optimism.
4Promote AIDS Prevention: In the first year of his presidency, President Obama will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce HIV-related health disparities. The President will support common sense approaches including age-appropriate sex education that includes information about contraception, combating infection within our prison population through education and contraception, and distributing contraceptives through our public health system. The President also supports lifting the federal ban on needle exchange, which could dramatically reduce rates of infection among drug users. President Obama has also been willing to confront the stigma -- too often tied to homophobia -- that continues to surround HIV/AIDS.3
The section about the expansion of hate crime statutes brought me to wonder, what about rape? How many cases of stranger rape, especially those that occur outside of prison, do not target an individual particularly because of her/his sex?
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