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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
“our heritage” of getting their asses handed to them over slavery. What losers.
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.
What culture - owning slaves? What heritage - losing wars they started? Fuck Tate Reeves and fuck Confederate traitors who don’t remember the last shit-kicking they got.
Sometimes, people get beat so badly, their memory suffers.
Brain damage? Yeah, that tracks.
So they wanna celebrate being losers?
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.
It’s Mississippi so yeah.
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Seems like a great opportunity to shine the spotlight on all the bigoted shit the Confederacy did / stood for, and celebrate the destruction of those traitors.
If we’re going to embrace it as our heritage - and we should, cuz it is - it should be with cautionary respect to the evil that many of us succumbed to so that we don’t head down that path again.
I aim we honor the southern folk who took up arms and signed up for their country despite the fact that that meant shooting at their racist dipshit neighbors
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
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?
Germans seem genuinely ashamed of the Nazi years. Conservatives seem genuinely ashamed of the Union years.
Since Governor Reeves will never do so, I apologize to every descendant of the Atlantic slave trade on his bigoted behalf.
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.
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.
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.
You can advocate and apologize.
Apologizing when you are not the one who caused the harm makes no fucking sense.
I benefit from the harm caused.
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.
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.
And here I thought just Florida was a garbage state
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.
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.
I’m just amazed he didn’t pick February…
Mississippi long since hit the bottom and they just keep on digging.
We should have finished what John Brown started.
If its Confederate history month we should remind them what being Confederate meant: Having Grant and Sherman steam roll through your economic and industrial centers and destroy everything. Especially those everythings owned by rich white men.
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.
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