Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month.

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Governor Reeves of Mississippi Declares April Confederate Heritage Month.

For the third year in a row, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is declaring the month of April as Confederate Heritage Month, keeping a tradition alive that his predecessors began 29 years ago.

April is the month when, in 1861, the American Civil War began between the Confederate and Union armies, reportedly the costliest and deadliest war ever fought on American soil.  The last Monday of April is also Confederate Memorial Day in Mississippi.

The Republican governor appeared on Fox News on April 29, 2021, and claimed that there is not systemic racism in America -- contradicting mountains of evidence, including the vestiges of Jim Crow that remain in force in Mississippi law.

The Confederate Heritage Month proclamation shows that Reeves signed it on April 8, 2022. Like last year, Reeves did not publicly announce the proclamation himself. Twitter user "@jallen1985" alerted the Mississippi Free Press to a copy of the proclamation that appeared on the Sons of Confederate Veterans' Camp 265 Rankin Rough & Ready’s Facebook page.  Last year, this publication’s editor, Donna Ladd, found the proclamation on the same page and reported it.

Gov. Reeves' office did not respond to a request for comment about the Confederate Heritage Month proclamation from the Mississippi Free Press last year, but did give a statement to local news affiliate WAPT, saying the governor was following in his predecessors' footsteps.

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Another case of a southern politician glorifying the losers of a futile war.

In the state with the highest percentage of blacks no less.

As a lifelong New Yorker April has another meaning. I want Governor Hochul to declare April Union Victory Month.

So do Mississipi schools celebrate confederate heritage month by holding slave auctions and during this month do white kids get to chase black students with a noose?

Gosh! they were proud times...

And today, April 14th, is also the day Lincoln was assassinated.

And the day the Titanic sank.

That event didnt have much to do with the Confederacy. But yeah...bad stuff seems to happen on that date.

But how would one even celebrate your state's "Confederate heritage" anyway?

It was only four years out of any state's history.

Sounds great to me!

Ironically both the Obama presidency and gay marriage are bigger parts of 'America's heritage' at this point, they've certainly lasted much longer than the terrorist traitors who waged war on America to preserve slavery.

157 years after the fact that so much of our politics and our culture is indirectly tied to reaction for and against what it stood for is not to be dismissed. The Obama presidency and gay marriage cannot compare with what did not happen due to the loss of over 600,000 people and their decedents who were never born.

I'm not denying the impacts that period had, only poking fun at it being an incredibly brief period.

Ooops, another autistic moment.

The Civil War is one thing.

The Confederacy is something else.

The Civil War was a major upheavel- a tragedy that the whole nation went through . Not something to be "celebrated" exactly. But remembered.

The Confederacy was a political experiment by part of the country, like Prohibition in 1920, or same sex marriage in the early 21st century. Except in just one region. Prohibition of alcohol lasted three times as long, and same sex marriage has existed longer than four years already.

Preserving the nation's Civil War battlefields is one thing.

"Celebrating" your state's "Confederate heritage" is a meaningless concept at best. Celebrate what? Four years of joining ten or 12 other states in a failed political experiment? Celebrate what the Confederacy "stood for"? What was that? Preserving slavery? And how can only four years constitute a "heritage" anyway?

There is whole culture and attitude that preceded then followed those four years. Most of which is a dark stain on the history of the region, and not something to be celebrated.

To pull out the positive parts of unique regional culture from the last century and a half, they should find a new term.

But ... I don't think they really want to. There are many people who like what the original movement, and all its permutations since, stood for. The dominance.

They are making a statement. IMHO the governor means to tell large groups of people that they will always be "less than." He wants to evoke all the ugly parts, even if his words say otherwise.