No need to dig it up; I'm familiar with it. Here's an excerpt:
"It has been a conviction of pressing necessity -- it has been a belief that we are to be deprived in the Union of the rights which our fathers bequeathed to us -- which has brought Mississippi to her present decision."
<He said that it is time to be Americans together,>
Yeah, I think that was from his speech at Bob Jones University.
<and believed in racial subordination>
It was the general belief of the day in the north and South. It was believed by Lincoln. Here's a quote from ol' Honest Abe, "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races -- that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races from living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
In those days, they also believed in sexual subordination and, as I recall, weren't very involved in Gay Pride Day.
The bottom line is that Dubya turned his back on the Plaque.
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