CHARLOTTE, N.C. (MCT) — It may have had fewer memorable turns of phrase than Barack Obama’s speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when the little known state senator from Illinois spoke of “the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.”

But Julian Castro, the mayor of San Antonio and the first Latino to give a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention, was just as much in the spotlight Tuesday night as the speech that helped launched Obama’s national career.