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More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. They have killed in many countries.
Like other predominantly black churches across the country, Trinity embodies the black community in its entirety - the doctor and the welfare mom, the model student and the former gang-banger. 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. But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. There need not be contradiction between development and tradition.
And I've seen it in this campaign. 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. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from Eastern Europe to Indonesia.
And that it's not enough to just believe this - we have to do our part to make it a reality. It's that we all have it within our power to make this a better world. If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have. That is the world we seek.
Let's come together - Protestant and Catholic, Muslim and Hindu and Jew, believer and non-believer alike. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. She knew that food was one of their most expensive costs, and so Ashley convinced her mother that what she really liked and really wanted to eat more than anything else was mustard and relish sandwiches. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.