The LDS church won't release that Statement to the public. However, before it was likely considered PR hazmat for the LDS Church, counselors in the First Presidency (i.e., President Henry D. Moyle and President Hugh B. Brown) in a letter dated Sept. 27, 1961 quoted at length from the 1949 missive in their letter of to member Stewart L. Udall, then serving as the Secretary of the Interior to President Kennedy.
This is the quote taken from the 1949 "First Presidency, after discussion with the Council of the Twelve" which Moyle and Brown quoted in their 1961 letter to Udall,
Consider this alongside the 'born-in-the-covenant' notion and the 'blessings' the LDS Church teaches come with being B-I-C. Then lets not lose sight of the concept that is taught to nearly every new generation of LDS kids, i.e., that they are the most valiant, were held back in the spirit world until this time, to come forth and lay the final groundwork for the 2nd Coming.President Henry D. Moyle and President Hugh B. Brown wrote:The position of the Church regarding the negro may be understood when another doctrine of the Church is kept in mind, namely, that the conduct of spirits in the pre-mortal existence has some determining effect upon the conditions and circumstances under which these spirits take on mortality, and that while the details of this principle have not been made known, the principle itself indicates that the coming to this earth and taking on mortality is a privilege that is given to those who maintained their first estate; and that the worth of the privilege is so great that spirits are willing to come to earth and take on bodies no matter what the handicap may be as to the kind of bodies they are to secure; and that among the handicaps failure of the right to enjoy in mortality the blessings of the priesthood, is a handicap which spirits are willing to assume in order that they might come to earth. Under this principle there is no injustice whatsoever involved in this deprivation as to the holding of the priesthood by the negroes.
Regarding its members and propspects, the LDS Church and its leaders pander to that inclination in humans that each is special vis-a-vis others. Airs of superiority and smugness can readily be found, as such 'specialness' cultivates those attitudes.
There is a corollary in many religions. In the New Testament, it states there will be just 144,000 out of the billions that have inhabited on earth that will be saved.
An underbelly problem of this LDS pandering of 'special' is that is leads not only to arrogance, but also to exclusivity. We're more valiant, unlike those with black skin--the handicap those less valiant spirits had put upon them by no less than God. Teachings like this lead to self-selective segregation rather than inclusion of others. Mormons are indeed as they used to proudly tout, a peculiar people--that are out of step with current times and advanced thinking.