Three years ago a two year old "white" toddler with acute myeloid leukaemia was given a bone marrow transplant that saved his life. There was a 10/10 correspondence of the human leukocyte antigens (HLA) that were used to match the donor and recipient.
Recently the donor visited the now thriving 5 year old and his family. The donor is from Chicago, an American of African descent.
Useful ammunition when people try to tell you that human races are different.
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All of a more reason for KKK to fuck off and let people be people.
Endri,
At one time the KKK philosophy was national policy. At the start of WWII blacks couldn't donate blood and it was the early 1970s before Louisiana and Arkansas allowed integrated blood donations.
http://theconversation.com/desegregating-blood-a-civil-rights-struggle-t...
Some of our differences, like eye color, are genetic accidents. Others, like skin color and nose shape, are adaptations to local environmental conditions. We all have the same human brain, and any human pair is capable of producing viable, fertile offspring, regardless of these minor differences in appearance.
Ethnic differences have no influence on intellectual performance, except where those differences result in economic and social deprivation and educational disparity.
One of the worst causes of racism and impeded human development is, of course, religion. Religion is at the root of evil ideas like chosen races, master races, the Curse of Ham, and holocausts.
Race is a competition between a tortoise and a hare, in which the hare typically displays the type of hubris that is detrimental to it's prospect of winning & ironically gives the tortoise the advantage.
During the U.S. Census circa 1990 a census worker knocked on my door as I had not submitted the form in a timely manner. I was a divorced single father of a young woman whose Father is white and Mother who was Black /American Indian. On the census form there was no box to mark for mixed race. So, I marked one box for Peckerwood (I mean caucasion). I left the rest blank. The conversation with the census worker went something like this:
CW : You have to mark something for her.
Me: No I don't
CW : Yes, You do!
Me: No, I don't!
Needless to say he left in frustration.