Barack Obama actually said...

"What a profound sorrow must have been felt as people were hauled off into the great unknown."

"You look at the extraordinary gap in per capita income that exists now, what that tells me is that there were a lot of opportunities lost, and we can't afford another 40 or 50 years in which Africa lo..."

"The capacity for cruelty still exists, the capacity for discrimination still exists, the capacity to think about people who are different not just on the basis of race but on the basis of religion or ..."

"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."