Was Mahatma Gandhi a racist?

[El Kabong]

This is just your way of justifying an invented narrative. It has nothing to do with Science, which is why you rather than address what i say, you constantly resort to inserting arguments i never made. If you think life is all about winning you are no better than an ape. What you feel is right and your feelings about 'race' mean fuck all. Facts Lyle.


'There is no necessary concordance between biological characteristics and culturally defined groups. On every continent, there are diverse populations that differ in language, economy, and culture. There is no national, religious, linguistic or cultural group or economic class that constitutes a race.'


http://physanth.org/about/position-s...-aspects-race/

Ok then if you say so.

You know, we're all very lucky to have a poster like you....I mean before you came around nobody was able to read between the lines like you, you know, tell other posters what they REALLY meant.


You're a credit to your ummm phylum

Race and organ compatibility

In almost every case, race does not affect compatibility. Organs such as heart, liver, and lungs can be donated by a person of one race and transplanted into a person of another race.

However, genetic matches between kidney and pancreas donors and recipients are important. A donated kidney within the same
RACE will have a higher degree of compatibility. Ethnic donors can help other people from culturally diverse origins waiting for transplants.

Caucasian recipients and ethnic donors

Some people believe that Caucasians receive preference in donation over individuals from other ethnic backgrounds. In fact, organ and tissue allocation as a policy is based on medical compatibility and severity of illness. Moreover, nine out of ten African-Americans who undergo an organ transplant receive those organs from Caucasian donors.


http://www.donoralliance.org

A donated kidney within the same what now?



I'm happy for when organs can be used to save lives, I'm happy when blood and bone marrow can be used to save lives, but it's not mean or nasty or negative to note that people are different and those different people (100% of humanity I'm talking here) should be giving of their blood (if they want), giving of their organs (if they so choose), and giving of their bone marrow (should they so choose) because people genetically similar to them might need bone marrow, they might need blood transfusions, they might need organs....it's important.


I remember that being driven home to me when I learned of former baseball great Rod Carew whose daughter struggled with acute myeloid leukemia but her very rare ethnic mix made it extremely difficult to find a good match. Her father was black with West Indian and Panamanian roots and her mother was of Russian-Jewish ancestry. Carew pleaded for those of similar ethnic background to come forward. When no matching bone marrow donor was found, an umbilical cord blood transplant was performed in March 1996. Michelle died on April 17, 1996 at the age of 18....it's a tragic story and as someone who has had friends with leukemia back when we were young young, when it was an absolute death sentence for a child yeah it's weighed on my mind a bit over the years.



So yeah I have some gallows humor, yeah I am not politically correct, but in this case....yes there's some genetic things that need to be specific in order for everything to end up ok when doing a transfusion or donation....that's all I'm saying just in a crass manner....didn't mean for you to get irked by it. My apologies



I'm an organ donor...I need to donate blood more often, and I do need to bite the bullet and do the marrow donation. I give good blood though...O Neg baby, universal donor