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America crosses 'colour line'

International Herald TRIBUNE, Washington
Even during the darkest hours of his presidential campaign, Barack Obama held on to his improbable, unshakable conviction that America was ready to step across the color line.
OnTuesday, America leaped.
Millions of voters - white and
black, Hispanic and Asian, biracial and multiracial - put their faith and the future of their country into the hands of a 47-year-old son of a black father and a white mother, a man who made history both because of his race and in spite of it.
African-Americans wept and danced in the streets, declaring that a once-reluctant nation had
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finally lived up to its democratic promise.
White voters marveled at what they had wrought in turning a page on the country's bitter racial history. Strangers of all colors exulted in small towns and big cities.
"It brought tears to my eyes to see the lines," said Bob Haskins, a black maintenance.
Tobey Benas, a retired teacher who voted for Obama savored the moment: "I can't believe how far we've come," said Benas, who is white. "This goes very deep for me."
In a country long divided, Obama had a singular appeal: he is biracial and a graduate of top universities; a stirring speaker who plays basketball and quotes the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr; a politician who grooves to the rapper Jay-Z and loves the lyricism of the cellist Yo Yo Ma; a man of remarkable control and startling boldness.
He was also something completely new: an African-American presidential aspirant without a race-based agenda.
His message of unity and his promise of a new way of thinking seemed to inspire - or least offer some reassurance - to a country staggered by two wars, a convulsing economy and sometimes bewildering global change.
Americans, of course, have not suddenly become colorblind or forgotten old wounds. But millions of white citizens clearly decided Obama was preferable to the alternative.
Confident in the country's ability to move beyond racial politics, Obama had his finger on the pulse of a nation in transition.
Still, the fact that Americans would be willing, at last, to elect a
nonwhite president stunned many scholars, politicians and advocates for civil rights.
They remain keenly aware of the nation's record of denying black aspirations.
"The history of the country is such that you wonder when, if ever, certain things will ever happen," said Representative James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who is 68.
Henry Louis Gates Jr, the Harvard scholar of African-American history declared, "There's never been a moment like this in our lifetime, ever."
For older blacks, Obama’s victory was particularly momentous. They marveled as they compared the scenes of white police officers beating black marchers in the 1960s to those from this year's campaign rallies, where thousands of white people waved American flags and chanted, "O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!"
Richard Hatcher, one of the nation's first black mayors elected in 1967, said he believed Obama's election would reshape the perceptions that blacks and whites have of each other.
A century ago, such optimism was unthinkable.
After black men won the right to vote in 1870, 23 blacks went to Congress over the next three decades.
By 1901, when the last black lawmaker of that era left Capitol Hill, southern whites had disenfranchised blacks, using, among other devices, the poll tax, intimidation and violence.
However, by the time Obama announced his White House bid last year, white voters had helped elect black members of Congress, state legislators, mayors, even governors.
This year, 70 percent of white adults surveyed in a New York Times/CBS News Poll said the United States was ready to elect a black president.
Still, most of the political establishment - black and white -thought that Obama had no chance.
Obama, only the third black lawmaker in the Senate, also had an unusual biography - a white mother from Kansas, a black father from Kenya, a childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia - and a relatively thin r6sum6.
But once the primary season started, it became clear that Obama had a persona and a message that resonated deeply with voters.
Gates, the Harvard professor, called Obama "the postmodern race man."
"People don't see him primarily as black. I think people see him primarily as an agent of change."
Obama spoke in March of the legacy of slavery, of black grievance and white resentment, and of the possibility of redemption.
"I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy," he said then.
"But what we know - what we have seen - is that America can change."
Lattrell Foster of Chicago, 32, who voted for the first time on Tuesday, was still close to tears as he considered the enormousness of the nation's progress and vowed to tell his children about it.
"Just like my grandparents told me what il was like during the civil rights movement," he said. "I feel like this night is a culmination of that history.”