Senator Barack Obama has made history. He has gone where no black man in history has gone: Winning the presidential nomination of a major political party in the United States.

By becoming the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, Obama has given hope to millions of American who believe justly that a glass ceiling exist for people of color and that America has not been able to live up to its promise that the country is willing to be fair and equitable to all of its citizens.

Now many Americans of African origin are in a celebratory mood that their children here will not live to be second-class citizens to which any dream of occupying the White House is a pipe dream.

This is no longer so. Now any child of people of color can dream that one day, they will be able to run for the highest office in the land.

African Abroad is indeed delighted that America has jettisoned the politics of race and division – the majority of the voters at least – on the road to making America to belong to all irrespective of the color of skin, creed, origin or orientation in determining the character of individuals.

We hope that now that Obama has made the first history, he will go all the way to capture the White House in November so that history can be complete and America can be said to have lived up to the creed of the founders as enshrined in the Constitution.