A specter is haunting America: the specter of a growing, almost viral xenophobia and an increasingly assertive conservatism.
The political arena seems more agitated than ever. Police officers are being shot, minorities take to the streets to insist on the value of their lives, and state clerks are imprisoned for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
The election of a Black American president seems, somehow, to have stretched the bonds of society close to their limits. Liberal forces in America appear to be moving at a rapid pace, while a significant part of the country remains unwilling to embrace those changes.
Perhaps that is why opposing voices are growing in number and becoming louder.
For the sake of the country, I can only hope that social change will come in more measured steps, and that tolerance and good judgment will ultimately prevail.
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