Article: Organ Donor Officials Upset at Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan

Dennis Schatzman
Los Angeles Sentinel
05-12-1994
Organ Donor Officials Upset at Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan.

Black organ procurement officials have criticized Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan for his contention that black-on-black crime serves a white need for donated organs.

Farrakhan, speaking to a mostly black audience at a stop-the-violence rally Saturday in Toledo, Ohio, said that whites support blacks' killing other blacks because the victims become potential organ donors.

"When you're killing each other, they can't wait for us to die," he told the crowd. "You've become good for parts."

Dollie Gentry, organ procurement coordinator for Life Gift Organ Donation Center of North ...

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