When the Cervantes statue in San Francisco was vandalized on June 19, the press reacted unanimously. It was undoubtedly an ignorant and stupid act, as dozens of columns repeated. But the most ironic part of the matter has not yet been exposed: Cervantes wrote a lot and well about blacks. I refer to Don Quixote and his short novels The Jealous Extremaduran and The Colloquy of the Dogs . A superficial examination of this corpus can give the impression that Cervantes limited himself to perpetuating stereotypes. It's not like that. The black character in Spanish literature obeys a historical reality. It is enough to read Don Quixote to verify it. His first

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