Obama Ipsum

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. Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren't always expressed in polite company.

There was even a time when the Christian Coalition determined that its number one legislative priority was tax cuts for the rich. It should help us, not hurt us. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance. It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F.

His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British. I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years. But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy. It is easier to start wars than to end them.

The skeptical bent of my mind didn't suddenly vanish. That's the promise we need to keep. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. America, this is one of those moments. I know there are many - Muslim and non-Muslim - who question whether we can forge this new beginning.

And yet, it has only been in the last couple of weeks that the discussion of race in this campaign has taken a particularly divisive turn. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. This is the hope of all humanity.

Thank you very much everybody.