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This is the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up. 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. Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naive as to believe that we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy - particularly a candidacy as imperfect as my own. So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am President. I'll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody.
The UCC is still listening. Change comes to Washington. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States.
There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich. For we have a choice in this country. We seek no military bases there.
We're not going to agree on everything, but we can disagree without being disagreeable. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. But that is not yet the case. That's why we're partnering with a coalition of forty-six countries.
We can affirm our faith without endangering the separation of church and state, as long as we understand that when we're in the public square, we have to speak in universal terms that everyone can understand. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. But all of us must recognize that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st century, and in too many Muslim communities there remains underinvestment in these areas. The Holy Koran tells us, "O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another."
Thank you.