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Mississippi Governor Declares April 'Confederate Heritage Month'

[Mississippi Governor Declares April 'Confederate Heritage Month,' No Slavery Mention By Donna Ladd Jackson] "Bryant spokesman Clay Chandler tweeted an updated Proclamations page, which now includes Confederate Heritage Day, as well as Vernon Dahmer Day, Irish Heritage Month and Ronald Reagan Day—but no Black History Month.

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," a routine occurrence in Mississippi and several other southern states.

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—which supporters like to call the "Beauregard flag"—from its canton

SCV is also an organization that pushes revisionist history about the Civil War and the reasons the Confederacy formed, such as selling books by James Ronald Kennedy and his twin brother Walter Donald Kennedy at Jefferson Davis' Gulf Coast home, Beauvoir, which SCV manages. The Kennedy brothers are founding members of the League of the South. These organizations stand in strong denial of the reasons the Confederates themselves said they seceded, joined the Confederacy and started the war—to maintain slavery, extend it to new states and force the return of fugitive slaves who had made their way to free states.

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 Confederate Memorial Day on April 25 to "recognize those who served in the Confederacy..." Full text: Mississippi Governor Declares April 'Confederate Heritage Month,' No Slavery Mention

Town Heretic

Honoring an institution created to preserve and expand slavery makes further notice of the practice redundant as the notice is unwarranted...and hard to sell, even in Mississippi.

They can't honor their heritage without being racists?

Town Heretic

Rather, you can't honor the Confederacy without honoring what it was and what it served.

They aren't honoring racists (Ac 17:26). They are honoring their family members who fought in the war.

rexlunae

There's no way to distinguish the two.

A friend of mine is related to Robert E. Lee. She honors her lineage but she's no racist (Ac 17:26). What do you recommend? She crawl into a hole and die?

"What do you think there is to be proud of in being related to Robert E. Lee?"

"...At a little before 4 o'clock General Lee shook hands with General Grant, bowed to the other officers, and with Colonel Marshall left the room. One after another we followed, and passed out to the porch. Lee signaled to his orderly to bring up his horse, and while the animal was being bridled the general stood on the lowest step and gazed sadly in the direction of the valley beyond where his army lay - now an army of prisoners. He smote his hands together a number of times in an absent sort of way; seemed not to see the group of Union officers in the yard who rose respectfully at his approach, and appeared unconscious of everything about him. All appreciated the sadness that overwhelmed him, and he had the personal sympathy of every one who beheld him at this supreme moment of trial. The approach of his horse seemed to recall him from his reverie, and he at once mounted. General Grant now stepped down from the porch, and, moving toward him, saluted him by raising his hat. He was followed in this act of courtesy by all our officers present; Lee raised his hat respectfully, and rode off to break the sad news to the brave fellows whom he had so long commanded." Full text: Surrender at Appomattox, 1865

Town Heretic

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They aren't honoring racists (Ac 17:26). ] "Of course they are. That's the mindset that produced the Confederacy."

You know the minds of the soldiers.

"I know the writings of the founders of that disreputable feast. They weren't shy about it. You don't have to be a mind reader..only a reader."

Then you would know that in reality these men were racists at all. They picked up a weapon and fought because they found themselves on a particular side of a border.

Also, you should have yourself tested for narcolepsy.

You'd never had seen a yawn emoticon (

) had you been able to present an argument without an ad hominem attack.

[These men were racists at all. They picked up a weapon and fought because they found themselves on a particular side of a border.] "Not everyone did. In fact, a state or two essentially became involved in a secondary civil war on the point. And I don't care if everyone who rallied for the German cause in WWII was a Jew hating Nazi. I care that they served its aims."

Care all you'd like. They're all dead now.

"The north saved the country then. The south will save the country today if it is to be saved." ~ Dennis Prager

You just weren't paying attention...maybe if you had more rest.

Maybe if you could make an argument.

Town Heretic

...I know he didn't own slaves...

ok doser

Wrong.

Lee was born to what had been an old and wealthy Virginia family, but its wealth had been squandered by the time he came of age. His wife, though, was the adoptive descendant of George Washington and the heiress to a massive plantation network.

In his will, Lee's father-in-law had asked that the family's slaves be emancipated after he died when "expedient and proper."

Lee, acting as executor of the wealthy man's will after he died, eventually complied, but not until after the slaves were kept in bondage long enough to right the financial ship of the plantation, which had fallen on hard times.

Lee owned slaves of his own before the Civil War, as late as 1852, and considered buying more even after that, according to Elizabeth Brown Pryor's biography, which is based on Lee's writings and correspondence. Nola.com

You're disturbing his Robert E. Lee Nazi comparison (

false equivalence).

Town Heretic

...[Y]ou're making a peculiar racket....[Y]our inability to counter it..."

Ad hominem

"Leftists don't fight real evil so they have to make up evil to fight." Eph 4:14 ~ Dennis Prager

[Comparing Robert E. Lee to a Nazi] "I'm not comparing them, I'm noting that service to an ignoble cause, no matter the rationale, is tragic."

He's a Nazi, I'm a Nazi. He, she and it are Nazis.