Families belong together

By Alwin Bruins

I don’t stand with my foot on American soil, so am as of yet not really aware of all the subtleties that surround this topic, but let me refer back to the situation in Mali some years ago, where most Malinese families of a certain tribe were said to have three children, two of them of their own and one of them being a French cultural anthropologist.

This of course is quite unlike the situation of Latins in the United States, but for the sake of argument, let me ask how real is the chance that Latins have that many anthropologists to assail southern states, and have they all read Carlos Castaneda, himself a Californian cultural anthropologist of Peruvian descent who visited on a regular basis Mexico, a writer I personally still am fond of. Did Don Juan, the Mexican Indian who after a short meet-up beckoned Castaneda to visit him at his home somewhere in the Sonora desert in Mexico, beckon him as to measure Castaneda’s capabilities to become his successor?

These books are quite interesting. You should read them too, and digest. If not that going too deep into those books may become a little dangerous, if you take the situations described in the books too much for real. But what is real? This depends on the state of mind of the one who reads it. Reading these books, you can learn about humility, also of mind, and the venues that this opens, knowing that richness has not its origin in a one dimensional awareness of the material world. Would I call myself humble, as Don Juan was in speech and manner?

I believe that if one has the assets, by reading a book or text, one digests its information, and this sooner or later leads to fruition, the moments one needs it and is ready for it, circumstances allowed. And there is a wealth of information out there, so go check it out, a human book, a book of nature, a cookery book, whatever.

And one moment, we will come to terms with racism, if racism it is. Racism is a word invented by a white man. And will this always be the next president of the United States?