Thank You For Altering Your Comments

I'd like to take my hat off to César Cansino, who was one of many who wondered a little too willingly if the United States was too racist to elect a black man, but one of the few who, after having done so, congratulated the nation after last Tuesday's results came in.

Cansino in June:

Certainly, envisioning catastrophic scenarios leads nowhere, but there exist an abundance of reasons to doubt that the whole of the American people, Anglo-Saxon and protestant, is prepared or predisposed to elect a black president, although his mother's white, or if the powerful influential ultraconservative sectors are willing to tolerate it.

Cansino on Saturday:

A change of culture and of mentality that was impossible to imagine only twenty years ago, the product of a maturity of a people that with one blow shook loose from centuries of racial resentment and ethnic discrimination and opted to demolish that last frontier that was left for its democracy to demolish so that the political equality that defines it would be worth as much in fact as it is in theory. That Barack Obama, belonging to a racial minority as long oppressed and discriminated against as were the African Americans, is to arrive at the White House through a majority vote constitutes a lesson in civility, wisdom, and tolerance that until now other equally advanced nations haven't shown.