Race DOES Matter: Fatal Problems for Transplants
by Jeff Davis
The constant drumbeat one hears from the liberal media is “all the races are equal.” In fact some liberals say “there’s no such thing as race” or they claim “science ‘proves’ that race doesn’t exist.” Usually this nonsense comes from some delusional ivory tower professor who never sees garden variety Negroes or Mexicans during his daily routine. As with so much that the liberal media tell us, out here in the real world, things are a bit different.
According to USA Today, the parents of a baby named “Luke Do” are having a difficult time finding a bone marrow donor for his leukemia. Why? Because he is of mixed race. Not just mixed race, but mixed Oriental “heritage.” The article notes “The hopes of his parents, both doctors in San Jose, Calif., immediately turned to a bone marrow transplant, but they soon learned some distressing news — Luke’s ethnic heritage made him a tough match. Sarah Gaskins, Luke’s mother, has Japanese and European ancestors and his father, Lam Do, is Vietnamese-American. Because bone marrow matches usually are made with a relative or someone with the same racial or ethnic background as the patient, multiracial people rarely have success.”
One can imagine the liberals wailing: “But…but…but… there is no such thing as race. Professor Shlomo Goldberg told me so!! Race doesn’t matter.” Aren’t we being constantly told this? And if this news story is true, if mixed-blood people are going to have medical problems because of their jumbled-up genetic patterns, could this possibly mean that maybe, just maybe, it might not be a good idea to race-mix?
More USA Today: “‘It’s tragic,’ said Lam Do, who specializes in internal medicine. ‘Your chance of finding a donor is so low, it’s like winning the lottery. And most people are unaware of this.’ …For years, the medical community has pushed for increased donor registry among racial minorities to improve survival rates for leukemia, lymphoma and other blood diseases. But to the general public, the situation is little known.”
We are kept deliberately unaware of the mixed-race organ donor problem by the PC media and pop culture.
The article continues “The biological reason has to do with the body’s response to infections, Beatty said. Because the world’s ancient peoples were exposed to different diseases over millennia, each group developed different tissue antigens, substances that help fight illness. The descendants of these peoples retain those highly varied tissue antigens, he said, making it tough to match the bone marrow of individuals from different ancestries.”
So, let me get this straight. People of different races inherit different characteristics from their ancestors? You mean they are not the same as white people? If Barack Obama for example needed a kidney transplant, he would most likely die because his parents were sufficiently thoughtless to produce a mixed race offspring, which is both unnatural and out of luck should certain medical problems crop up.