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In the end, that's what this election is about. In that time, I've had the chance to talk with Americans all across this country. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American. And yet, to wish away the resentments of white Americans, to label them as misguided or even racist, without recognizing they are grounded in legitimate concerns - this too widens the racial divide, and blocks the path to understanding. What is that promise? Over seven years ago, the United States pursued al Qaeda and the Taliban with broad international support.
It's a journey that takes us back to our nation's founding, when none other than a UCC church inspired the Boston Tea Party and helped bring an Empire to its knees. I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. I'll invest in early childhood education. Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions are protected ahead of CEO bonuses; and the time to protect Social Security for future generations. I get it. And we will do so in partnership with Muslim communities which are also threatened.
America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own. And we will also expand partnerships with Muslim communities to promote child and maternal health.
They weren't simply a religious leader's effort to speak out against perceived injustice. He contains within him the contradictions - the good and the bad - of the community that he has served diligently for so many years. And when one of his chief advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I quote, "a nation of whiners." And I will not settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance. That is why the U.S. I know that for many, the face of globalization is contradictory.
Because whether it's poverty or racism, the uninsured or the unemployed, war or peace, the challenges we face today are not simply technical problems in search of the perfect ten-point plan. Our conscience cannot rest until we not only secure our borders, but give the 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country a chance to earn their citizenship by paying a fine and waiting in line behind all those who came here legally. He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of the finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing God's work here on Earth - by housing the homeless, ministering to the needy, providing day care services and scholarships and prison ministries, and reaching out to those suffering from HIV/AIDS. That has been my experience at Trinity. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don't feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race.
Thank you, and God bless America.