Obama Ipsum

Legalized discrimination - where blacks were prevented, often through violence, from owning property, or loans were not granted to African-American business owners, or black homeowners could not access FHA mortgages, or blacks were excluded from unions, or the police force, or fire departments - meant that black families could not amass any meaningful wealth to bequeath to future generations. This time we want to reject the cynicism that tells us that these kids can't learn; that those kids who don't look like us are somebody else's problem. In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. The people of the world can live together in peace.

They all have different stories and reasons. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. In all nations - including my own - this change can bring fear.

And until we stop the genocide that's being carried out in Darfur as I speak, our conscience cannot rest. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough."

And because she had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."

The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known.

Thank you, and God bless America.