A live look at the White House there.
Just two months from now, Barack Obama will walk into the White House as the first black President.
It's an image President Bush .
Ralitsa Vassileva is exploring what it means for Americans.
Ralitsa.
Kaushal, it's impossible to describe what it means.
This was a massive shift in American history.
the final barrier broken for black Americans.
Those I've spoken to say that the idea that America will soon have a black president,
well you see it there, simply overwhelming.
The road has been so long for many of them and painful,
but this was a day of celebration for them.
The church where Martin Luther King dreamed of racial equality
at the news America has elected its first black president.
Even a general can't hold back the tears.
As I watched finally one of the newscasters cut to the chase and said he's won, it's over,
pretty moving moment.
Other African-American pioneers weep too.
Obama reminded the Americans of what a hard long journey it's been.
Get out and vote.
To the remarkable story of a 106-year-old African-American woman named Ann Nixon Cooper.
She was born just a generation past slavery,
a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky,
when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons:
because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.
Her journey mirrors the United States' painful struggle with racial discrimination.
Beginning with slavery, when blacks were separated from whites as second-rate citizens,
the assassination of civil rights leaders,
the racial riots of the 1960's when many blacks lost hope that change can come.
Many tragic episodes would pass till America was ready to vote for a black president.
Polls said race was not a factor in these elections,
but still it mattered in the South,
where Obama did worse than prior Democratic presidential candidates, Kerry and Gore.
This is our time,
to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids;
to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace;
to reclaim the American dream
and , that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope.
And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't,
we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people;
Yes, we can.
Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.
A reminder that the journey is not over yet even though the highest racial barrier forever.