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The United States has been plagued with issues of racial tension since its inception, and the issue of racial inequality continues to be at the heart of unrest within the country. The Detroit Address is a Friday sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (rh), the Fourth Khalifah of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, on October 16, 1987, in Detroit. In it, he pinpoints factors that have caused racial tension in some communities in the United States, and presents Islam’s longstanding rejection of the notion that any one race if superior to another.

The cultural distractions of modern society have pulled men out of understanding how God designed man. The collective men of today's global society have forgotten what man is, and also what man is not. Man is not violent. Man is not one who abuses his wife and children. Man is not a pleasure-seeker. Man does not define himself in terms of his sexual conquests. A man is one who accepts responsibility. A man is courageous, especially in the face of danger. A man is faithful. A man is a man of integrity. A man is loving.