Barack Obama actually said...

What I have said is that we have the capacity to move beyond them and improve our relationship with each other in a way that actually reflec...

I have to strongly condemn the statements that were made. They do not reflect my views or Michelle's views.

I have never been naive enough to think that we get beyond these issues of race or gender or our history or our past.

We have a history of discrimination and, you know, slavery and Jim Crow that continues to have a powerful pull on the African-American memor...