African American

Yet those cells were taken without consent. No reparations were offered, no acknowledgement of her life or death, none, until recently. No acknowledgement of what she gave to millions of people, without her consent. Had she been asked? I believe she would have given it freely.

I think us white people need to wake the f**k up,



John Hopkins Hospital, an institution, took a black woman's cells, no permission asked. She was poor and black. Would a woman, an ethnic majority have been treated differently? My guess would be yes.