Confederate Heritage Month 2021, April 12: Gov. Tater Tot declares Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi

I guess it's a good sign that if the Mississippi governor wants to declare Confederate Heritage Month in his state, he feels the need to do it in the bureaucratic equivalent of spray-painting it on a wall in the middle of the night.

Donna Ladd reports (‘Darn’ Tootin’ It Is!’: Gov. Tate Reeves Again Declares Confederate Heritage Month, SCV Says Mississippi Free Press 04/12/2021):

Despite asking Gov. Tate Reeves’ office since late March if he planned to again declare April as Confederate Heritage Month with no response, this publication just found what appears to be this year’s proclamation. The new document, which Reeves apparently signed on April 7, 2021, appears on the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ Camp 265 Rankin Rough & Ready’s Facebook page. Reeves is from Rankin County.

The proclamation does not yet appear on the secretary of state’s official proclamations page at press time. The most recent one on the page is dated March 29, 2021.

This writer found last year’s proclamation on a Sons of Confederate Veterans Facebook page rather than through official government channels as well, breaking the news at the Jackson Free Press. In 2016, that publication had broken the news that Gov. Phil Bryant had quietly proclaimed Confederate Heritage Month, a long-time tradition by Mississippi governors, Democratic and Republican, that had flown under the media radar for years.

Ladd also describes some of the recent propaganda coming from the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SVC), one of the groups that glorifies slavery and white supremacy and violent treason in defense of them. Ladd notes that they run the private Beauvoir site, which was the coastal home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. It is currently "a museum that has long sold revisionist books about the Confederacy, as well as received state funds ...."