1.   Although those problems affect blacks disproportionately, they are a drag on the whole nation and all elements of its population.

2.   For more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has grappled with the fact that the disease disproportionately affects blacks.

3.   He also involved himself in other issues affecting freed blacks.

4.   Racial profiling affects all blacks.

5.   The report demonstrated the extent to which blacks are affected by the changes that are roiling the traditional family structure.

6.   The problem is especially severe in the case of kidney disease, which affects blacks at a much higher rate than whites.

7.   Until now, there has been no successful treatment for sickle cell disease, a group of genetic disorders affecting mostly blacks.

8.   While violent crime has certainly spilled out of black areas into the plush white suburbs, it still affects blacks significantly more than whites.

9.   Project Coast looked into creating poisons that would only affect blacks and hoarded enough cholera and anthrax to start epidemics, witnesses said.

10.   But subtler forms of bias continue to affect many blacks.