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It's that folks are hungry for change - they're hungry for something new. People are coming together around a simple truth - that we are all connected, that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper. Understanding this reality requires a reminder of how we arrived at this point. That is why the U.S. When violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean. I know that for many, the face of globalization is contradictory.
Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country - a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam. "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back." This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it is being challenged in many different ways. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward.
They've worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy. I've seen it in Illinois, when we provided health care to more children and moved more families from welfare to work. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away.
That's why pastors, friends of mine like Rick Warren and T.D. Jakes and organizations like World Vision and Catholic Charities are wielding their enormous influence to confront poverty, HIV/AIDS, and the genocide in Darfur. Why associate myself with Reverend Wright in the first place, they may ask? Why not join another church? And I confess that if all that I knew of Reverend Wright were the snippets of those sermons that have run in an endless loop on the television and You Tube, or if Trinity United Church of Christ conformed to the caricatures being peddled by some commentators, there is no doubt that I would react in much the same way Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism. That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters.
Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans. They could've heard words of anger and discord. Some are eager to stoke the flames of division, and to stand in the way of progress.
Thank you.