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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
He was 40 years old.
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My grandfather said some pretty racist things to the day he died, yet can you really condemn the person for expressing the attitudes that he had been raised with and that were prevalent at the time within the general population. Seventeen years in the rear that video looks very incriminating, but look at the time and place, AIDS was still a pretty unknown disease, which was seen in no small part to be impacting homosexuals and drug addicts who shared needles. There was incorrect information amongst the general population regarding how the disease was spread and there was still systemic hatred being brought against homosexuals based upon the culture in which Tom Lukiwski was raised.