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 my ringtone.
ConfederateTraitors Heritage MonthConfederateTraitorsLOSER Heritage Month
I’m just amazed he didn’t pick February…
“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.
Maybe we should offer them a historic demonstration
Nah, they’re into that, the Civil War Reenactors
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.
Gross
Sherman should have personally visited every confederate home.
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.
What’s insane is that the Confederacy was only around for around 4 years, yet they claim this is the cornerstone of their ‘heritage’ well over 150 years later.
I made a comment about this the other day. It’s as dumb as me walking around with an Italian flag as an American that has Italian ancestry, but my family has been here for over 100 years… There’s nothing Italian about me lol
Maybe in 150 years, Missouri will name April to be WiiU month.
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.
Lincoln went way too soft on reconstruction, Johnson destroyed 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.
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.
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.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/1243870144/fourteenth-amendment
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.
“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.
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.
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
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.
Rankings Scorecard:
Crime & Corrections #34.
Economy #49.
Education #41.
Fiscal Stability #40.
Health Care #49.
Infrastructure #47.
Natural Environment #16.
Opportunity #36.
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.
They want to openly celebrate slavery.
And treason.
I’m surprised their African American counterparts don’t riot
