Mississippi Governor Declares April 'Confederate Heritage Month'

[struggle4progress]

By Donna Ladd
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 8:45 p.m. CST

JACKSON — Two weeks before the Mississippi Legislature allowed 19 state flag bills to die in committee, Gov. Phil Bryant took out a pen and signed an official governor's proclamation, declaring the month of April "Confederate Heritage Month" ...

The proclamation, which does not appear on the State of Mississippi's website with other proclamations, such as about emergency inclement weather, is posted on the website of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which is ferociously against changing the Mississippi flag to remove the Confederate battle flag .. from its canton ...

On Bryant's gubernatorial letterhead, the proclamation starts out by explaining that April is the appropriate month to honor Confederate heritage because it "is the month in which the Confederate States began and ended a four-year struggle." It adds that the state celebrates Confederal Memorial Day on April 25 to "recognize those who served in the Confederacy" ...

Bryant refuses to take a position on changing the Mississippi flag, saying it should be up to the voters, who decided in 2001 to leave the old flag in place, in a vote that fell largely along racial lines ...

http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/feb/24/mississippi-governor-declares-april-confederate-hi/

[desmiller]

1. FUCKING REDNECK

[SoLeftIAmRight]

2. This is a state that Hillary will win

but not in the general

[Fuddnik]

3. Starting ceremonies on April Fools Day.

How fitting.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. lol.

[DetlefK]

5. Sounds actually great. Yet another month where you get to talk about slavery in the US.

"What are you complaining about? The economy of the Confederacy was based on slave-labor! We are discussing the Confederacy here!"

"Okay, okay. We'll switch topics... New topic, students! Where the Confederates traitors, Yes or No? And what does it say about us that we still celebrate people who waged war on the US?"

[a la izquierda]

6. I'm a history professor...

if it's the Civil War or Nazis, it's the only thing students are interested in.

Depressing, really.

[librechik]

7. well... April is the cruelest month

The Waste Land

I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

8. IIRC didn't Mississippi send a bunch of antebellum southern belles dressed in costume

to march in W's first inaugural parade?

It was hilarious. Even the tv commentators were trying hard not to laugh.

[LanternWaste]

9. So for an entire month, everyone in Mississippi should say "I surrender" three or four times a day..

So for an entire month, everyone in Mississippi should say "I surrender" three or four times a day...

Cheese-eating surrender-monkey for thee, but not for me.

[struggle4progress]

10. Mark your calendar!

Sat 09 Apr 2016 - Lee-Liddell Surrender Day
Sat 16 Apr 2016 - Columbus Surrender Day
Thu 21 Apr 2016 - Bug-Out Mosby Day
Tue 26 Apr 2016 - Johnston Surrender Day
Wed 04 May 2016 - Alabama-Louisiana-Mississippi Surrender Day
Thu 05 May 2016 - Gulf Surrender Day
Tue 10 May 2016 - Florida Surrender Day
Wed 11 May 2016 - Arkansas Surrender Day
Thu 12 May 2016 - Georgia Surrender Day

[11 Bravo]

11. Will it be illegal for African-Americans to read during April ...

in Mississippi?

[Initech]

12. The Confederate flag: How is this still a thing?

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[struggle4progress]

14. It's hard to imagine. Mississippi had no flag at all until the Civil War. Then it adopted

the magnolia flag, which was repealed immediately after the war. Mississippi then had no flag at all until 1894, when the current flag was adopted. But that was repealed in 1906, after which Mississippi again had no flag at all until 2001, when the current flag was re-adopted after a 95 year hiatus. So for all the noisy nonsense about heritage, the current flag has been Mississippi's flag for a grand total of about 27 years, most of them in this century

It's a state with strange politics. Mississippi didn't ratify the 13th amendment (abolishing slavery) until 2013: the legislature finally voted to ratify the amendment in 1995 but nobody ever bothered to complete the process by formally notifying the US until 18 more years passed

[mountain grammy]

13. Disgusting