“For decades, we treated our state’s African-American population poorly. The Hispanic influx gives us a second chance to prove what kind of people we really are.”
That’s from a much older speech in which Governor Huckabee was talking about Arkansas and segregation, not America and slavery.
Doesn't look like "an old speech" to me.
And he most certainly WAS talking about slavery.
"One of the great challenges facing us is that we do not commit the same mistakes with our growing Hispanic population that we did with African Americans 150 years ago and beyond. We're still paying the price for the pathetic manner in which this country handled that," Huckabee said at a meeting of the Political Animals Club in Little Rock. The club meets monthly to hear from political figures and experts. "I think frankly the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before," Huckabee said.