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Board of Education, and the inferior education they provided, then and now, helps explain the pervasive achievement gap between today's black and white students. Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I've laid out how I'll pay for every dime - by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens that don't help America grow. For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive.
This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't.
Because we all have the capacity to do justice and show mercy; to treat others with dignity and respect; and to rise above what divides us and come together to meet those challenges we can't meet alone. But I also know that human progress cannot be denied.
If there is a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child. And it's a lesson we need to remember today - as members of another Joshua generation. He strengthened my faith, officiated my wedding, and baptized my children. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement.
At every opportunity, they've told evangelical Christians that Democrats disrespect their values and dislike their Church, while suggesting to the rest of the country that religious Americans care only about issues like abortion and gay marriage; school prayer and intelligent design. And nothing will change. In that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. When a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk.
Thank you very much everybody.