Gov. Reeves Proclaims Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi

[Nevilledog]

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/41270/governor-reeves-proclaims-confederate-heritage-month-in-mississippi


Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 31-year-old tradition that began in 1993. Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, announced the proclamation in a Facebook post on Friday, April 12.

“Whereas, as we honor all who lost their lives in this war, it is important for all Americans to reflect upon our nation’s past, to gain insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday and today will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us,” says the governor’s proclamation, which is dated April 12. “Now, therefore, I, Tate Reeves, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in the State of Mississippi.”

Beauvoir is owned and operated by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that promotes “Lost Cause” ideology, a revisionist history that whitewashes the Confederacy’s racist past and downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War. Beauvoir annually receives $100,000 from the State of Mississippi for development and maintenance.

Starting in 2016, Donna Ladd, then the editor of the Jackson Free Press and now the executive editor of the Mississippi Free Press, first reported on then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s Confederate Heritage Month proclamations. The Mississippi Free Press has reported on Reeves’ annual proclamations as well in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.

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[pfitz59]

1. Taint Reeves is a poster boy for inbreeding

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I always expect dueling banjos to play at his appearances.

[Aristus]

2. As the descendant of Confederate veterans and slave-owners,

I say: Go fuck yourself, you traitorous piece of shit.

I do not honor what my family members did. I never will. The ones who got killed deserved it, and the ones who survived the war should have been killed too, since they later joined the KKK. That is nothing to honor or be proud of.

[hatrack]

3. A celebration of rape, murder, kidnapping, brutality and lies!! Bring the whole family!!

[ZonkerHarris]

4. Love the Losers who Lost Syndrome. LOOOOOOOSERS!

[keithbvadu2]

5. Governor; Thank God you republicans won that war in the 1860s.

[UTUSN]

6. Is that legal?

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. Wat to insult 40% of your population Tate!

Can I call you Tater? Rhymes with Traitor.

[Boomerproud]

8. Haven't learned anything, have you Tate?

BTW, why aren't you solving the quality of life problems your state suffers from? Never mind, you are a numbskull.

[maxrandb]

9. Is the White Flag flying at the Capital at "half-mast" for the whole month?

asking for a friend.