Hispanic Julian Castro goes to White House as Obama’s hand

It appeared that in the relay race that Julian Castro believes that the American – dream he happened to witness with his mother and his Mexican – grandmother, the next step in his political career would be to leave the municipality of San Antonio (Texas) to occupy the Governor’s house in Austin. And from there, like other U.S. presidents (the first Roosevelt, Wilson, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, Bush), start the assault on the White House.

A Castro facilitates a shortcut to federal power in Washington. Barack Obama, man and politician with enough similarities to Castro- or vice versa – has decided to entrust the secretariat Housing Administration to its young Hispanic promise, and who in 2012 granted the honor of being the first member of that ethnic group open a Democratic convention. Since then, the pop – star in his day it was Obama, who also excelled at a convention, to back pain – Clinton, a scarce firmament of stars, is in the pools as a future candidate of the Democratic Party in 2016 vice president of the country. And there, perhaps, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

In as modest as the Spanish Castro himself, Obama said: ” Julian has lived the American dream.” ” He never forgot where he comes from,” he finished, as in English, recounting the president ‘s humble origins Texan mayor. Castro accepted as ” a blessing,” the witness was wrong and the president said to come from humble beginnings not mean you have to be humble in dreams. “You can be successful and achieve the American dream.”

Castro has held this Friday at the White House prudent attitude that characterizes him, that tells you that everything you say can be used against you in this hard negotiated that is American politics. The mayor still thanked in Spanish to the residents of San Antonio, the seventh city in the United States, with over 1.3 million people, mostly Hispanic.

The youth of the next Secretary of Housing – if the U.S. Senate confirms him in office – has been a constant in his political career, which began at 26 becoming the youngest councilman in the history of San Antonio. 34 was the youngest mayor of the municipality and today, with 39, no younger than him in the 50 largest U.S. cities alderman.

But youth is not exactly a sign that favors Castro, perhaps the opposite, since it is critical that lacks the necessary experience to face the ruthless arena of Washington. If blowing in their favor the wind whispers in his ear that the first Hispanic president of this country is born. That at this time you can be sitting at a school desk; in law school; or it could be him.

The conjecture is not the result of an illusory, magical thinking. It supports a census says live in the United States 50 million Hispanics, one in six people in the country. Not to add to the more than 10 million undocumented immigrants who do not have at the polls – for now – but are perfectly integrated into the social and business fabric of the nation. If immigration reform proposed by Obama lográ someday overcome Republican stubbornness in Congress have reasons to block it, the old party of President Lincoln is long in danger at the polls.

When today Obama this Castro told reporters at the White House, on the podium will be two men with similar biographies and similar dreams, each belonging to the two major minorities in the country,  have since been able to transcend the barriers of race, social class or group.

Like Obama, Castro was raised by his mother – low paternal presence, however today, attended the ceremony, Rosie Castro, an activist fighting the Chicano movement in the sixties and seventies for the rights of immigrants. Mrs. Castro was born in America, but it was his mother who opened the doors of the American dream that now seems to be realized in one of two twins or two children. Julian is almost the only thing the mayor still mispronounces in Spanish, with very strong ‘j’ and tick in the ‘a’, because it does not handle the language of their ancestors – has a twin brother, whose name also begins with ‘ j’ and is settled since last year in Washington as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“My grandmother never owned a home,” Castro said at the Democratic Convention. ” My grandmother cleaned the homes of others to pay the rent of their own,” he said. Victoria, Grandma mayor, got to see how his daughter was graduating from the University. He saw Julian become mayor. But the American dream possible for the family of Victoria social mobility unthinkable in many other parts of the world. That makes perhaps Julián Castro is that Hispanic to reach the White House. The journey has just begun in Washington.

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