Why Black Women Are Angry: Does "The Trashman" Really Exist And Is He Infecting Sister's With Aids???

By Jayar Jackson

The nonchalant, casual nature of sex in today’s society has become a concern to many due to the ugly truths about the spread of many STDs including HIV/AIDS.

With young African American women being the group infected at a higher rate than any other, new tactics are being formed to educate, and even scare them into being more aware of the dangers out there. Under the hood, the YouTube clip that's got everybody up in arms.

MTV uses their influence on the youth of this country with multiple commercials and programs that tell their audience to get tested and understand how easily the deadly disease spreads.

For those of us that can’t get on TV, the advent of YouTube, and many other websites like it, provide a forum for a show about anything. A Black man known as “The Trashman” is one with a series of videos that describe his sexual escapades with young women ranging from age 15 to the mid 20s. One video in particular has him speaking very disrespectfully about how he’s spread HIV to Black and Latino women through unprotected sex. Some of the language in the video is explicit:



There are many reasons to analyze the video and see it as fake. What man gets the full names, ages, and backgrounds of every woman he’s had sex with? What clubs does he go to where he can find some 15 and 16 year old girls hanging out? These places would have been shut down by now. This scheme sounds a lot like the book, ALZMEK: The Fictional Memoir of a Tainted Life, in which a man knowingly and brazenly spreads the AIDS virus to unsuspecting sexual partners.

Finally, many have asked, THIS guy had sex with 15,000 women because of a Jaguar? Some are calling for “The Trashman’s” arrest, hoping he’ll become someone’s “bitch” in prison.

Others are pointing out the likely possibility that this is all a hoax, a chance to get 1 million hits on YouTube. Whatever the reason or degree of truth involved in this video’s existance, Black Americans are being infected with the virus at an alarming rate through multiple irresponsible means. Before many young people pick up a book or read something to leisurely educate themselves, they head to the most popular videos on the internet.

Is “The Trashman” a fraud that is going to where the target audience flocks to tell the story that they would likely not hear? There are many out there that are unknowingly doing what he’s claiming to do. There may be others that are infected, like this dirty scheme, and have found something new to do with their lives and be a copycat.

Real or fake, the main concern is, does everyone know what’s happening and are we talking about it yet?