Barack Obama actually said...

"In some ways African-Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don't have a recent immigrant experience to draw on."

"I want my kids to think about, and I want every -- every child to think about."

"The capacity for cruelty still exists. The capacity for discrimination still exists."

"I think the experience of slavery is -- is like the experience of the Holocaust. I think it's one of those things you don't forget about."