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>> Janet Baraclough wrote:

>>> The message <484e681c.2246234@130.133.1.4>
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>>>>> Question Dalin....would a racist accept a blood donation from a black
>>>>> man if it was a means of saving his life?
>>>>> jingles

>>>> That's a good question Jingles. I was going to say "You betcha!" but
>>>> then I thought of parents who refuse blood transfusions for their
>>>> children based on religious reasons and refuse other medical treatment
>>>> treatments.

>>> But that's a different issue; they wouldnt accept any blood wherever
>>> it came from.
>>>
>>> . For those who are willing to accept donations, then (at least in this
>>> country) there is absolutely no indication at the point of transfusion,
>>> of the race age or gender of the donor. I know that blood bank stocks
>>> are coded and traceable to source by the blood bank system, but surely
>>> not by the hospital to which they've been distributed? All they have, is
>>> the reference code and blood typing.
>>>
>>> Janet.

>> But!(extemporising now) if any trace of black blood in a white person
>> designates them as'black'

>
> I think you may have misread earlier posts. In this country, anyone
> with Obama's *visible* physical evidence of black race, would be
> identified by other people as black. That is not to say, anyone with a
> trace of black blood is designated black. A blood transfusion can't
> alter the DNA of the recipient. If I received a blood transfusion
> donated by Obama, I would not become male, black, American, or
> Christian.
>
> Some while back there was a BBC TV program which traced peoples
> genetic ancestry from their DNA. An amazing number of fair skinned blue
> eyed people who look like white anglo-saxons and believe themselves to
> be so, have DNA which proves they have ancestors from other races. I
> believe the evidence of African DNA is particularly high in old WASP
> families from the southern states of America.
>
> Janet