Gay Men are Banned from Giving Blood, So Should Black People Be Banned as Well?
KultureKritic.com Staff
A peculiar law stands in the way of thousands of potential blood donors. Over 50,000 gay men are rejected because they gay community is high risk for HIV/AIDS.
The black community is also at high risk with 57% of new cases affecting blacks, however there is no restriction on black blood donors. The same is true for the heterosexual community. As of 1977 the Food and Drug Administration thought it prudent to add a question during the screening. Blood banks had to begin asking men if they had ever had s*x with another man. If so, they were then labeled MSMs, or men who have s*x with men.
Men who have s*x with men make up around half of the 1.2 million AIDS cases in America, but that is because of s****l decisions, not their s****l orientation. Adam Denny is directly affected by this law, and by the perception of some bible belters who believe that AIDS is a gay disease. “We wanted them to understand that is not the case. We are banned based on an outdated policy. When people questioned us, I told them about how I always heard that people who donate blood are heroes. Gay men want to be heroes, too.”
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STOP COMPARING BLACK PEOPLE TOO THE GAY AGENDA,OUR STRUGGLE IS VERY DIFFERENT THEN THERE’S.
This is not comparing the struggle, in fact vice versus. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is turning from a homosexual male plague to a Black community issue. We as a people get too wrapped up in waving certain banners. HIV/AIDS is real in the Black community, here and abroad, and we can learn from the gay community how to deal with the problem.
1. We campaign for everything but preventable healthcare and medical testing. (how about reparations in the form of education and healthcare)
2. We have to advocate for abstinence and regular HIV/AIDS testing in the community.
3. We have to make it socially unacceptable to have unprotected s*x, and not getting tested.
If we don’t take immediate steps to reduce the number of new infection then we are going to see the deaths in numbers like the gay community experienced in the 80′s and 90′s. THIS IS REAL DESPITE OUR RACE OR s****l ORIENTATION.
Very well said! Thank You….
Because my ex is from Congo region Africa, I too was denied giving plasma. Let make it clean, gay, sub-Congo Africans, and those that have been sexually evolve with those from sub-Congo Africa can give blood not plasma. I think this is already a stigma that is, too, going to affect the ability of Black Americans ability to give plasma specifically from high AIDS or HIV regions.
I think blacks should be banned from donating blood as they are most likely to give false information. There are more down low brothers than you would imagine and women with HIV, AIDS and Hepatitis C who will not tell you they are infected because it isn’t “cool”. (whites also) Don’t misunderstand, I am a Black woman. However, it the day comes that I would need blood, I am f***ed.
I’m so sick of this type of bullshit comparing black people with gay people who don’t have anything to do with us and we don’t have anything to do with them. Just because they can’t donate blood doesn’t mean that black people got to be treated the same. s****l Orientation and skin color are two different and separate things and should stay that way.
The US department of health will never ban black people from donating blood, no matter the risk of the public’s health, the backlash would be too terrible, not to mention it’s ethically wrong. The problem is that it is still sociably acceptable to publicly discriminate the LGBT community. A straight man can higher 7 hookers in Vegas, buy them all heroin and help them shoot up. Then screw all 7 hookers unprotected, and then donate blood in one year. A gay man can be married and only had s*x with this husband for the past 5 years, but not donate for the rest of his life.
RIGHT ON JUANDERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND DON’T FORGET THAT AIDS IS A MAN MADE DISEASE.
Too bad. As a Black Gay man, I used to be a r-e-g-u-l-a-r blood donor. In fact, I was aiming to become a donor qualified to join the “Gallon Club.” I haven’t given a drop since the ban on gay donors – and wouldn’t start up again even if personally invited by the President of the Red Cross!
Good. Don’t donate blood. If you live in DC, find out why black women are three largest group of AIDS/HIV new cases of infections. Thanks. Bye.
so the white mans blood is good? what wass the purpose of this article than to keep trying to kill blacks…what the f… type of s… is this… a man made dis-ease…PLEASE..not a gay dis-ease or black dis-ease but a government man made dis-ease that was given to blacks, gays and vets…
I understand the logic for the ban, but not the logic for the comparison. Being black is a benign characteristic, not defined or identified by behavior. Homosexuality is a behavioral characteristic, defined by one’s s****l behavior and practices. I know of no former blacks, but I know of many former homosexuals. Here we have a culture that has within it a large contingent of practitioners who actually seek out the disease (they are called “bug catchers”). To the best of my knowledge, there is no such practice or faction within the black community. While AIDS is indeed a major concern for all and a reason to definitely devise stricter standards for blood donation, I do see a logic and justification for attempting to limit the restrain the donations from the gay population, seeing that AIDS is primarily spread via s*x, and s*x is the primary behavioral characteristic of the homosexual population.
Exactly!!!! Well put.
Doctors can test for HIV, so what is the problem?
What a stupid correlation. We know HIV is derived from men have s*x with men tearing causing blood mix with skin and s***n evolving into a deadly disease. Secrecy and lies have caused it to remain, and even see it spiking in recent years. How does any of this correlate to black people. People are so stupid to keep trying to link skin color, something you have no control over, and mistreatment to s****l preference, something you do have control over.
I think Jodi may have a point if anybody will stop talking long enough to listen… Oh and further more there is no comparison with being Black and the gay struggle.. Gay people can stop being Gay; they even have to “come out” for anybody to know that they’re gay… there’s no way I can have a equal choice of revealing that I am Black or not.. how is there any comparison? We both have a tough struggle; Yes this is true but, they are different.
They did that at world war 2..
Ok. So today I have decided I am white. I have been white woman living in a black body since I was born and I now want the world to recognise me as such. I feel that I have been teased, bullied and victimised because of who I am and ‘I want to be free’ to choose the colour I am known by. Therefore, whatever you see, you have to now ignore that and believe what I am saying and that is that black is white.
Sounds a bit like hypnosis to me…No. We can’t say we used to be black but we can say we used to be straight, that’s why it makes no sense to compare the two however, I understand why this is done and it’s because those very people who make these statements are predjuduce themselves…..The suggestion is that white is the dominant or preferred race which is neither true nor proven. We are what we are and the blood in our bodies doesn’t change because we change our s****l preferences what does change is our s****l preferences and that’s all.