When looking at two horses (one black and the other white), we instinctively admire their elegance and their energy without any consideration for their colour. On the other hand, when looking at two men (one black and the other white), everything seems suddenly so different. Colour becomes the main criterion that will define and even classify them. Paradoxically, the pigment that gives the skin its dark colour (the criterion used to assign a negative value to human beings) plays an indispensable physiological role and generates huge profits for pharmaceutical corporations.
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