[Vision2020] For the record: Blood Drive

[Donovan Arnold]

I think you make a strong case for what I was trying to say Ted.

It may not specifically say, "Blacks and Gays cannot give blood", but the 
policies that the Red Cross uses when they collect donations 
disproportionately eliminate Blacks and Gays, not because they have a 
disease or virus, but because they have a common trait with many other Gays 
and/or Blacks.

Would people be complaining if they eliminated people with brown eyes from 
donating blood?People with brown eyes are more likely to have AIDS and 
STD's. It is not discriminating against any race, color, creed, gender, or 
sexual orientation. It would also have greater statistical significance then 
eliminating people based on if they once visited Africa since 1977.

Take Care,

Donovan J Arnold


>From: Tbertruss at aol.com
>To: donovanarnold at hotmail.com, carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com, 
>dgray at uidaho.edu,        bmerkle at nsa.edu, vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] For the record: Blood Drive
>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:36:53 EDT
>
>
>Donovan et. al.
>
>Policy and practice are not the same animal, as we all know.  A given blood
>drive may not by policy discriminate against Blacks, yet such 
>discrimination
>happens in practice for a variety of reasons.  We are not by policy allowed 
>to
>block the vote of African-Americans, but anyone studying what happened in
>Florida in Gore v. Bush 2000 knows that Blacks were discriminated against 
>in voting
>in that election.
>
>We can cite all the official blood donor policies we want, but what really
>happens in practice?
>
>Ted Moffett

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