# 75, on the biggest world news in 2008...

75. I shall recognize as the biggest news around the world during 2008 the election of Barack Obama, in spite I argued through earlier comments why the USA didn't need to prove to the world that it has overcome racism... The election of Obama surpassed others because its unexpectedness among the most of the people but for attentive observers, at last since the appointment of Condoleezza Rice as a Secretary of State in 2004 the USA had showed it was solidly on its way -and much further than any other country- to become race blind...