Black text out in Adobe Reader X and make it uneditable?

I want to be able to black out certain text lines from some PDFs and then send the PDFs to people without them being able to remove the blacked out bars. I do not want them to see the text that is being blacked out. Is there anyway to do this within Adobe Reader X?

The answer by robyncoolum actually works. I am using Adobe Reader X ver 10.1.1.
Maybe some clearification:
1. Select the text you want to black out.
2. Mark the text selection using the tool and it will be marked yellow.
3. Right click the selection and select Properties.
4. Change the color to black or whatever color you want.
Works for me. If it doesn't - maybe there are some document protection properties enabled that prohibits this?
But for the original post - even if you save the pdf the black out will not be embedded into the document. Another user can remove it.
On the other hand - if printing to paper is all you want then it is ok.
Also if I print (NOT Save as) it to another pdf file using e.g. CutePDF the blackout is saved embedded. I don't know if it can be removed - I can't.

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Hi Angelete,
I am so sorry for the inconvenience caused & will try to get this issue resolved.
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