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I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my two precious daughters. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America - there's the United States of America. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past.
She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. We need to heed the biblical call to care for "the least of these" and lift the poor out of despair. At various stages in the campaign, some commentators have deemed me either "too black" or "not black enough." We saw racial tensions bubble to the surface during the week before the South Carolina primary.
Not once in my conversations with him have I heard him talk about any ethnic group in derogatory terms, or treat whites with whom he interacted with anything but courtesy and respect. We want to talk about how to bring them home from a war that never should've been authorized and never should've been waged, and we want to talk about how we'll show our patriotism by caring for them, and their families, and giving them the benefits they have earned. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers - Thomas Jefferson - kept in his personal library. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace. Hamas does have support among some Palestinians, but they also have responsibilities.
I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity. 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.
John Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren't held hostage to the profits of oil companies, or the sabotage of foreign oil fields. It's not enough, but it's helping. We're not going to agree on everything, but we can disagree without being disagreeable. But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn't make it - those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense.
God bless you.