sjgouldrocks, you are not paying attention. Playing word games for the apparent purpose of scoring points, while bringing nothing of substance to the discussion, makes you appear to be one of the PC driven people to whom IzzyR was referring, earlier.
Scouts for sports systems (and coaches and trainers and so forth) are working under a different set of conditions than doctors attempting transplants. When we went from the 1960s (before which opportunities were clearly nil) to the 1990s with only a single black quarterback in the NFL, a lot of people drew the conclusion that blacks “didn’t have what it takes” to be quarterbacks. A few people went back and began interviewing blacks who had been outstanding high school quarterbacks to discover why they had not pursued careers in that position. What the interviewers discovered was that those athletes had all run into coaches who “discovered” that the kids were better wide receivers or tight ends or whatever and they were directed away from the quarterback position. (The few who succeeded in remaining quarterbacks in college, then ran into the same “discovery” process if/when they entered the NFL.) Once that “redirection” was exposed and college coaches began letting high school quarterbacks try out as college quarterbacks, we “suddenly” discovered that there was a large pool of qualified black quarterbacks in college and, ultimately, the NFL.
That, as you noted with your cryptic “scouting” reference, was racism.
When we look at organ donations, we have a somewhat different picture. Blacks tend to be more reluctant than whites to donate organs in the United States. Given such shining examples of medical altruism as the Tuskeegee study and the apocryphal (but widely believed) story that Dr. Drew, the black man who developed blood plasma, was denied a transfusion and died, it is not hard to figure out why blacks are reluctant to trust the medical profession–particularly when they may fear “harvesting” their organs to be given to whites.
However, the result is that in an area of medicine where there are too few available donors at any time, the number of donors who will contribute the highest matching percentage of blood types to provide organs for blacks are abstaining from joining the donor pool.
For any given two individuals whose tissue and blood types match, there is an equal chance of success regardless whether either the donor or the recipient is from the Isle of Mann, Honshu, Madagascar, or Fiji. Finding a high enough percentage of people whose body types match includes encouraging enough people, the larger percentage of whom are more likely to match, is not racism.
This is not to say that racism (conscious or unconscious) does not exist in the medical profession, as I already pointed out in the story of the ACE inhibitors study and the reactions of the NEJM editors. However, to label every perception of every event that includes a consideration of (culturally identified) races as “racism” is, indeed, to be very PC–possibly detrimentally so.