Gov. 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.

Pan_Ziemniak,

Thank god for Mississippi!

shani66,

It feels good knowing that no matter how awful my state is, no matter how far i fall, no matter how shitty life might be, at least I’m not in Mississippi.

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks,

“our heritage” of getting their asses handed to them over slavery. What losers.

FlyingSquid,
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Their “heritage” lasted five years. The Obama Administration lasted eight years. The Obama Administration is more of the South’s heritage than the Confederacy.

But if you want to celebrate some actual Mississippi heritage, celebrate blues music. Oh wait- that was invented by those people.

BolexForSoup, (edited )
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It’s saddens me that the south continues to choose to celebrate the awful legacy of the Civil War instead of celebrating a rich cultural heritage. We should be talking about William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams. Not Robert E. Lee.

Infynis,
@Infynis@midwest.social avatar

Maybe we should offer them a historic demonstration

zero_spelled_with_an_ecks,

Nah, they’re into that, the Civil War Reenactors

Mokujin,

And here I thought just Florida was a garbage state

800XL,

No, Florida is the garbage state. It’s one thing to emotionally live in the past. It’s another to actively reverse progress to live in the past and be so bad at it like Florida.

Viking_Hippie,

Florida is the garbage state

I beg to differ. Florida gets more headlines since the national press hasn’t completely given up on it yet, but Mississippi is worse.

A lot of the Mississippi awful is just too depressing, hateful and stupid in a nondramatic way to make for good headlines.

FlyingSquid,
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Since Governor Reeves will never do so, I apologize to every descendant of the Atlantic slave trade on his bigoted behalf.

Postmortal_Pop,

Don’t apologize for him, am apology means an acceptance of wrong doing and am effort to improve and repair the damages. This dipshit isn’t going to do that.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I’m apologizing because apologies need to be made. Repeatedly. As far as I know, I don’t have any ancestors that were involved in the Atlantic slave trade, but I have shared in the societal benefits that resulted and I am apologizing because of it. I’m saying it’s on his behalf specifically because he will never do so.

radicalautonomy,

Most descendants of slave owners don’t want performative apologies “on behalf of” anyone. Reparations, restructuring public policy, strengthening the social safety net, increasing opportunities for them to grow their wealth…yes. Apologies, no.

Talk is cheap, and apologies are the cheapest, especially from individuals who are not responsible for their hardships and don’t hold the power to undo them who apologize for their ancestors out of embarrassment. Instead, educate yourself incessantly and advocate ferociously on behalf of the most oppressed.

FlyingSquid,
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You can advocate and apologize.

radicalautonomy,

Apologizing when you are not the one who caused the harm makes no fucking sense.

FlyingSquid,
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I benefit from the harm caused.

DirkMcCallahan,

“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.”

Had me in the first half.

AdmiralShat,

A reminder that the Confederate Constitution literally said black people would forever be property

Article I Section 9(4) No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed

BolexForSoup, (edited )
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It was like 4 years why do you want that to be your heritage?

Jaysyn,
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This is what happens when you don't properly complete Reconstruction.

Every single Confederate officer & politician should have been hanged by the neck until dead.

2fat4that,
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I try to explain this to people and they look at me like I’m a madman. The civil war never ended because we allowed their leaders to live and continue planting their seeds of bigotry.

runswithjedi,

This is an excellent explainer of the mechanisms by which people have been limiting the 14th Amendment since it was passed right after the Civil War “ended”. It’s both a promising law and tragic how it’s been abused.

www.npr.org/2025/04/10/…/fourteenth-amendment

bdonvr, (edited )

Lincoln went disgustingly soft on reconstruction, Johnson destroyed it.

Honestly Lincoln cared far more about getting the country together than he did about ending slavery, or attempting to integrate these new freed persons into society. Several times he seriously suggested sending them off to some island to colonize it themselves so he wouldn’t have to deal with it.

Also I’d highly encourage anyone to read “Black Reconstruction in America” by Dr. W.E.B. DuBois if you’re interested in this kind of thing.

Papergeist,

Recolonization was Lincoln’s orignal opinion. But by the end of it all, and after speaking to Fredrick Douglass, Lincoln’s opinion changed. His final address he talked about integration of Freedmen. Upon hearing these words, John Wilkes Booth decided to up his time table and assassinate Lincoln that very night.

From all my readings, there is one thing common across all of the greatest US presidents, and that is their ability to change their opinions when they were wrong.

Theprogressivist,
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So they wanna celebrate being losers?

snooggums,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

They want to openly celebrate slavery.

Cuttlefish1111, (edited )

I’m surprised the African American countrymen don’t riot, comparable to BLM

sik0fewl,

And treason.

IchNichtenLichten,
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It’s Mississippi so yeah.

Rankings Scorecard:

Crime & Corrections .

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Health Care .

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www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi

shani66,

Without getting into it, that site seems really fucky. I mean north carolina is ahead of new york and cali somehow. It’s also vastly over estimating Mississippi, that place is famous for being bad.

extant,

I think it’s about marketing, if they don’t spread their bigotry it’ll die out. That’s why conservatives are in constant fear of education and letting their kids go off to colleges where they can learn about alternative paths than hate and fear.

magnetosphere,
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Free speech is important, but I can’t believe we tolerate this.

Sometimes I think Germany got it right - free speech most of the time, but they crack down hard on any Nazi shit.

I don’t trust our politicians not to chip away at it, though.

FlyingSquid,
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I entirely think Germany is right and I even think that works within the frame of the First Amendment because overt racism is an implicit (and even sometimes explicit) threat of violence, which is already not legal. It just needs justices uncorrupt enough to see it that way. Unfortunately, we do not have those justices right now.

NoIWontPickAName,

Just remember that you are ok with them censoring speech when they turn pro trans speech illegal.

femtech,

how does being pro trans imply hate?

NoIWontPickAName,

It doesn’t in any way… to us.

Do you want to give that gun to someone else and trust them to do right?

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

“Pro trans speech” is in no way racist.

NoIWontPickAName,

You’re 100% correct.

Now do you want to hand your enemies that tool and trust that they won’t misuse it?

FlyingSquid,
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How do you misuse a “tool” that specifically bans racist speech?

Why hasn’t this “tool” been misused in Germany?

NoIWontPickAName,

You know what, touché salesman.

I don’t trust America not to find a way to twist it and use it against other speech though.

Germany has a real strong “No more Nazis” thing going after what happened to it.

They’re using that to continue to support Israel killing Palestinian children though so I would say that the sentiment behind those laws is already being used in a bad way.

I did just have this thought though so feel free to tear into it.

I’m going to browse

juicy,

You define criticism of Israel as antisemitic like they have in parts of Europe.

DontMakeMoreBabies,

Jesus Christ, adults can draw lines and supporting a racist traitor regime is an easy bright line.

Don't be a fucking child.

NoIWontPickAName,

Do you trust your enemies with the power to censor you?

Because that will be used against you

tacosanonymous,

You know they already do, right? There is speech that is not protected by 1A. As a society, we can clearly set those rules without doing a slippery slope (which for the record is a fallacy and not a poignant argument).

DontMakeMoreBabies,

Booooo. Scaaaaaaary wooooords. Now do nothing ever for any reason.

^this is you.

If my enemies need to be reminded what feeds the Tree of Liberty then that's just fine.

NoIWontPickAName,

Ok, you are entitled to your own opinion. 😊

masterofn001,

The Confederacy lost, and were guilty of treason. People want to bring back the Confederacy (actively plotting) - isn’t that basically declaring war? Or sedition?

Do as the Germans do.

Confederate supporters are traitors and or terrorists.

Why laws if no laws?

seth,

Germans seem genuinely ashamed of the Nazi years. Conservatives seem genuinely ashamed of the Union years.

DougHolland,
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Mississippi, god damn

diykeyboards,

That editing. Goddamn.

Viking_Hippie,

Hate Reeves still doing his part to make sure that Mississippi remains the worst US state.

Some would say that Texas or Florida are worse, but that’s just became their awfulness gets all the press. Mississippi is worse than either and it’s mostly thanks to disgusting demagogues like Reeves.

teft,
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Sherman should have personally visited every confederate home.

BlackNo1,

pleaae come back sherman the south needs to be taught what scorched earth is again

uberdroog,
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This is my ringtone.

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