Doctor Charles Drew
swam against the current
when he first banked blood
The Red Cross
was at cross purposes
with the business of
saving lives
They forgot
(or pretended not to know)
that blood cells
are red and white,
not black and white
The job at hand is to transfuse
blood not bigotry
Dr. Charles R. Drew was an African-American doctor who developed methods for blood storage and transfusions in the 1930's. He was an outstanding person in many areas, and well worth reading more about. One place to start is The Black Inventor Museum. And these 55 words about him are for G-Man.
