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Editor's note: Silverio Pérez is a writer, author of the best sellers, among which "LaVitrina Rota", "A mirror in the jungle" and "I only count on the story I tell you." Radio and television program host and documentary producer. He has recorded more than a dozen albums. Co-founder of the Puerto Rican groups: "Knitting in another are" (new trova) and "Los Rayos Gamma" (political satire). The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author.
(CNN Spanish) - Alexa had a mirror. Not to ask him “mirror, mirror, who is the most beautiful in the kingdom?”, As he once read in a children's story, when the cruelty of society that would have to live still did not make her run away in terror in the presence of another human being.
No. Alexa had a mirror to ensure that those who were chasing her shouting profanity, those who were able to get to the point of hitting her, would not approach her.
Alexa had a mirror to remind herself that she had been brave in choosing her own identity despite not being accepted by very honorable sectors of social scaffolding.
One day the mirror became the object of the crime of those who judged it.
From the intimacy of a women's bathroom, to which he felt he had the right to use, he was accused - without the right to defend himself - that this mirror that protected her used him to transgress the privacy of others.
His face, captured on the screen of a cell phone - this other mirror in which we try to project the image that suits us every day - flooded social networks with the guilty verdict.
Shortly afterwards, a video broadcast on those same social networks gave an account of verbal aggression, followed by shots that, although silenced, did not hide the noise of visceral hatred that those insensitive and ignorant distilled.
We don't know yet if those same young people who boasted of their cruelty were Alexa's killers. But we do know that those who committed that hate crime have accomplices that need to be unmasked.
Alexa was killed by poverty that is condemned 58% of our child population, with all the limitations that come with not having minimum economic resources in our society.
Alexa was killed by prejudice fed from the pulpits of some so-called "religious", who spread hatred against those they criminalize as "sinners."
Alexa was killed by the politician who passes laws that limit the rights of the LGBTQ community and repeals classes that educate on knowledge and respect for gender diversity.
Alexa was killed by those who continue to use stereotypes to make fun of homosexuals and transsexuals in jokes and comedy steps in theaters or on television.
Alexa was killed by those who make the outcasts of our society invisible.
Alexa had a mirror. And when we look at it, we feel ashamed of the society in which we live.
May the image reflected in the Alexa mirror make us reflect to build a fair and egalitarian society. And that justice be done to all the Alexas of the planet.
Alexa