Students Claim Blood Drive Comments Offensive | NBC Philadelphia: Students at a local high school say they were offended and confused by what a Red Cross worker told them while they were donating blood at their New Jersey school. They were so upset that when they got home they told their parents about it. When they couldn’t get any answers from Red Cross, they contacted the NBC10 Investigators. Harry Hairston interviewed three of the students who were say they were upset by the remarks.
The students say, the American Red Cross worker told them if they wanted to give two pints of blood they could, because they were African American. The worker said their blood could be given to “the little black kids in Africa.” Montaya Marshall, a junior at Penns Grove High School tells Hairston she was offended by the comment. But the Red Cross tells the NBC10 Investigators that none of the blood they collect even goes out of the Penn Jersey region.
