The United States is changing, as it always has: changing what it looks like, what it listens to, what it eats. Those changes help explain why the pushback in support of Puerto Rico and Latinos has been so forceful. Mainstream audiences love our culture in ways that make racist jokes sound as archaic as they are offensive. The country’s changing sense of self is unsettling for some, and their backlash is part of our American tradition too.

Our capacity to change is our American superpower — the core energy that drives our entrepreneurs, our artists, our visionaries. It’s a beautiful, creative force and it comes from a people who are young at heart, seeking new ideas and questioning old ways.

Never mind the noise. Listen to the harmony. Because history has its eyes on us.