The first black cosmonaut was Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, a simple guy from Cuba who went beyond the Earth on a Soviet rocket in 1980.
But there are breakthroughs in tolerance in the United States as well.
This is the first time a black person has become a senator in Mississippi.
This is the country that is the birthplace of slavery, in fact.
There was Uncle Tom's Cabin on the Mississippi River, and the population of the Cotton State before the abolition of slavery was 50% slaves.
Now, the US has outdone itself.
cool.