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That better way of life and treatment was something he also extended to the nation's Muslims and responded again to charges that he's one. "I have repeatedly, on various occasions, said I am not a Muslim. But this whole strategy of suggesting that I am is indicative of anti-Muslim sentiment that we have to fight against. I just don't like the idea of somebody falsely identifying my religion. I have visited mosques here in my community repeatedly," [Barack Obama] continued, "and met with Muslim leaders on a wide range of occasions."
"I've...said that affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in American because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action," he answered. "Those kids are not getting into college. There have been times where affirmative action has been viewed as a shortcut to solving some of these broader, long-term, structural problems."When asked about the issue of affirmative action, which Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has opposed with his support of a measure by conservative thinker Ward Connelly, Obama dismissed a quota system and promised a more structured response if he becomes the president.See the full content of this document
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Ovations for Obama in Chicago
For a while, it was touch and go and participants at the recent Unity conference in Chicago were uncertain whether Sen. Barack Obama would have the time or the energy to address them aft...
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