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.
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
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.
Maybe we should offer them a historic demonstration
Nah, they’re into that, the Civil War Reenactors
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.
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.
Maybe in 150 years, Missouri will name April to be WiiU month.
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
Sometimes, people get beat so badly, their memory suffers.
Brain damage? Yeah, that tracks.
So they wanna celebrate being losers?
They want to openly celebrate slavery.
And treason.
I’m surprised the African American countrymen don’t riot, comparable to BLM
It’s Mississippi so yeah.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Mississippi long since hit the bottom and they just keep on digging.
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’m just amazed he didn’t pick February…
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.
ConfederateTraitors Heritage MonthConfederateTraitorsLOSER Heritage Month
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.
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.
