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Trigger alert 🚨: Hard to stomach but this hits so hard I want to face it. Segregation of Blood🩸by color of skin went on until 1972 & the “1-drop rule” persisted until 1983 in my home state of LA. 😩 👀 labels.
I pledge to fight #racism & lift each person.
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I pledge to fight #racism & lift each person.
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1/ Dr. Charles Drew, an African-American surgeon & father of blood banking, perfected techniques that saved countless lives. Yet he was prohibited from donating blood himself over “fear” of his black blood. Read #2 w/ ✍🏻
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bit.ly/2IRvJDW
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2/ Dr. Drew ✍🏻 this letter of protest because he wasn’t being allowed to🩸: “I think the Army made a grievous mistake, a stupid error in first issuing an order to the effect that blood for the Army should not be received from Negroes. My 3 reasons are...”
