Barack Obama actually said...

"You try to explain that people were willing to degrade others because they appeared differently."

"President Obama threw out the first pitch at tonight's annual All-Star Game at Busch Stadium."

"I think that there is a special sense for African Americans of somehow connecting up with a part of yourself that you might not have even been aware was there."

"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."