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I learned that everyone's got a sacred story when you take the time to listen. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits.
As such, Reverend Wright's comments were not only wrong but divisive, divisive at a time when we need unity; racially charged at a time when we need to come together to solve a set of monumental problems - two wars, a terrorist threat, a falling economy, a chronic health care crisis and potentially devastating climate change; problems that are neither black or white or Latino or Asian, but rather problems that confront us all. 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. Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans. I get it. It is easier to start wars than to end them.
And until we stop the genocide that's being carried out in Darfur as I speak, our conscience cannot rest. Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions are protected ahead of CEO bonuses; and the time to protect Social Security for future generations. Because I've lived it.
But what my former pastor too often failed to understand is that embarking on a program of self-help also requires a belief that society can change. Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F.
She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. But by the time he was a young adult, he was an atheist. 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. I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims.
Thank you, and God bless America.