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Because it's not who we are. 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.
They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential. These enemies must be found. I chose to run for the presidency at this moment in history because I believe deeply that we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our union by understanding that we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction - towards a better future for of children and our grandchildren. Today, America has a dual responsibility: to help Iraq forge a better future - and to leave Iraq to Iraqis. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.
The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. But we will support a secure and united Iraq as a partner, and never as a patron.
Hope in the face of uncertainty. But the truth is, that isn't all that I know of the man. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced. All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time.
God is still speaking. And the lack of basic services in so many urban black neighborhoods - parks for kids to play in, police walking the beat, regular garbage pick-up and building code enforcement - all helped create a cycle of violence, blight and neglect that continue to haunt us. This time we want to talk about how the lines in the Emergency Room are filled with whites and blacks and Hispanics who do not have health care; who don't have the power on their own to overcome the special interests in Washington, but who can take them on if we do it together. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores.
God bless you.