…now condoms.
Tens of thousands of condoms provided free by the District to curb HIV-AIDS have been returned to the health department because of complaints that their paper packaging is easily damaged and could render the condoms ineffective.
Demand at two distribution sites in Southeast set up by nonprofit groups plummeted more than 80 percent after the condoms, in a mustard-yellow and purple wrapper, were introduced this year. More than 2,000 packets a week were scooped up in mid-March, but by late May, only 400 were being given away each week.
Volunteers concerned about why interest had dropped began asking people who had picked up the condoms. They were told about packets ripping in purses or bursting open in pockets. As a result, recipients said they had little confidence that the condoms would offer protection.
In addition, expiration dates on some of the Chinese-made condoms were illegible.
“People were saying, ‘These packets aren’t any good,’ ” said Franck DeRose, executive director of an organization called the Condom Project, one of those involved in the grass-roots distribution system. A coalition that includes the Condom Project sent back 100,000 condoms to the city, about 15 percent of what the city says has been passed out to groups.
This article suggests that the people of D.C. will now be treated to brand-name condoms as a result. How long will it be before black extremist groups start claiming that the Chinese government was engaged in a conspiracy to infect blacks with STDs? Though since I doubt any such rhetoric will sucker the Chinese government into giving American blacks and their civil rights pimps any money or consideration (only white liberals are dense enough to fall for that scam), there might not be any incentive for the black leadership to peddle such paranoia.
