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To the Joshua generation, these challenges seem momentous - and they are. But it also comes from my own American story. 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 believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us. The President vetoed a similar plan, but he doesn't have the last word, and we're going to keep at it, until we bring this war to an end. That's why organizations are rising up across the country to reclaim the language of faith to bring about change. And then another one. Indeed, faith should bring us together.
We have real enemies in the world. 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 will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. That is why the U.S. This is a difficult responsibility to embrace. Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
My mother, whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was one of the most spiritual souls I ever knew. But at the end of the day, we cannot walk away - not for the sake of passing a bill, but so that we can finally address the real concerns of Americans and the persistent hopes of all those brothers and sisters who want nothing more than their own chance at our common dream. And Democrats, we must also admit that fulfilling America's promise will require more than just money.
I learned that those things I was too weak to accomplish myself, He would accomplish with me if I placed my trust in Him. He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years. For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy - give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. Change comes to Washington. We did not go by choice, we went because of necessity.
God bless you.