Barack Obama actually said...

"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."

"I think it's important that the way we think about it and the way it's taught is not one in which there's simply a victim and a victimizer, and that's the end of the story."

"I think it's a major problem. If you look at the history of the last several decades, I think what's fair to say is that Africa has not made as much progress because ruling elites have not thought abo..."

"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."