In the prepared version distributed to reporters, Obamas speech ends this way:
America is going to survive. We wont forget where we came from. We wont forget what happened 19 months ago, 15 years ago, thousands of years ago.
Thats not what he actually said. Before the audience at Hampton, Obama ends his speech this way:
America will survive. Just like black folks will survive. We wont forget where we came from. We wont forget what happened 19 months ago, or 15 years ago, or 300 years ago.
Three hundred years ago. Its a reference the audience understood.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/02/obama-speech-jeremiah-wright-new-orleans/#ixzz28C75u2IH
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