The audio on the recording is very poor, or maybe he just talks really softly. If you can’t hear what he is saying, here is the (annotated) transcript.
“That’s what America…. Is about…. a land of dreams and opportunity.
There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships
(wait…what?! #AlternativeTravelArrangements?)
who worked even longer, even harder, for less…
(yeah, because that’s what slaves do!)
but they, too, had a dream.
(To go home? Not to die a horrible death?)
One day, their sons, their daughters, their grandsons, their granddaughters, their great grandsons, great granddaughters
(the ones that weren’t sold off?)
might pursue
(as opposed to being pursued?)
the prosperity and happiness of this land.
(or Canada?)