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adolescents and young people to suicide
and devastated entire families.
We hear news about organizations
formed
by
African
descent,
homosexuals,
feminists,
political
dissidents and others who join in a
common cause to demand the effective
recognition of their natural rights, some
of them already legitimated by law.
Nonetheless, what allegedly involves
the admission and exercise of plurality
does not go beyond the debates and
even such a horrible disease like
discrimination, on any scale, silently
mutates in a disguise illness with the
same symptoms of intolerance.
It is healthy that people will be
associated through their race, creed,
gender, hobbies and interests. It is very
healthy that the government guarantees
and protects these spaces of identity,
discussion and conquests. But it must be
necessary to fight against the social
perspective
that
generates
any
segregationist approach, instead of
fighting against other human groups.
This vital difference is essential. Like
the Brazilian girl in the video, Martí
reminds us a principle that is falling
behind in the struggle for reaffirming
the differences: "There is no racial
hatred because there are no races.”
As he stated, there are thinkers who
reheated some bookstore’s races that
travelers and observers seek in vain
inside the justice of nature, where only
the universal identity of man stands out
among the human bodies, as diverse in
shape and color than equal and eternal
in their souls. In summary, it’s a crime
against humanity to promote and
propagate opposition and hatred among
the races.
A friend of mine commented that a
signal of eradication of racism would be
movies far away from racial issues and
focused on ordinary human conflicts,
with black actors playing characters that
invariably and unjustifiably are played
only by white actors nowadays. The
same is true for homosexuality. The

social and legal recognition is the first
stage, but a valid reference of equity
would be that people wouldn’t have to
reveal their sexual orientation whenever
it is irrelevant or they prefer not to.
In my interview with Ruben Lombida
(Project Our America) for the online
magazine
Esquife
(http://elcaimanemplumado.blogspot.co
m/), he commented that ancient
communities as the North American
Indians considered sexual indefiniteness
as a special gift. Far from analyzing it in
terms of guilt, they did so in terms of
causation.
The Arabic term berdache was
mistakenly applied to define the captive
young male subject to sexual use by his
owner. The original term for naming
these human beings meant something
like two souls. There were different
types of berdaches. The lesser evolved
were devoted not only to practice
homosexuality, but came to feel their
deficiencies till the extreme of clawing
at their legs to fake the effects of
menstruation and of experiencing false
pregnancy. The most evolved berdaches
became asexual and some of them
developed the gift of prophecy. They
were used to interpret messages behind
the dreams, to pacify conflicts, to rule in
trials and to serve as advisors for
shamans or even as shamans
themselves. Society saw these human
beings as the ideal of androgyny.
If you get stuck in one aspect of the
evolution, you run the risk of creating
variants of such stagnation and further
misinterpret them as evolutionary
features. What is really to be
homosexual or heterosexual? Only
being settled with half of something. In
the Nahual language, the word for man
is tlaca, which means half. This entails
the concept that we are incomplete,
despite of all that we are carnally and of
any level of intellectual refinement. The
other half is not contained in the male
body; if we talk in terms of bipolarity,
this is the only worthwhile.

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