You were the one that mistakenly stated that African Americans received 50% of organ donations while representing only 12% of the population. I just wanted to make clear that is not the case.
You donor rates are old also. The data you referenced is from 1994-1995. Since then, there have been major campaigns to educate the African American community about the benefits of organ donation. Also, there has been a push to educate health care workers as well, as blacks had been far less likely to be designated as a potential organ donor than whites.
Recent data indicates that of 5423 transplants completed so far in 2007, 871 have been from African American donors. This represents 16%. Data from 2006 is similar. You can find all this information at the website I referenced in my previous post.
If you are going to make a generalization, you should use recent information. You would not want to receive health care from 1994-95 standards, yet you cite donor rates from 1994-95 as part of your theory that patients in hospitals are in danger of having their organs harvested prematurely. I am not sure what your ethnicity statistics were supposed to prove, but they were not correct. You never answered my questions about whether you know of any patient whose organs were harvested prematurely. If you believe that it is unsafe to designate that you would like to be an organ donor, I would think that you would have some reason other than statistics from 1994.
The study I looked at was from 2002, so which means they probably did collate info from the 1990’s....it looked at donor percentage rates per group....If I find an updated study from 2007 I will certainly update my posting. You are looking at the end recipient rates, I’m looking at the donor rates per capita per group.
As for the 50 per cent number I was citing another(not myself) questioner of the “harpy” who was using statistics from another study....of which the “harpy” actually stated she knew of and agreed with the 2nd questioner! Since you feel that info was wrong...perhaps even more pointed questions should have been asked of the “Harpy”!