As daily US #COVID19 deaths hit 1500, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves proclaimed April as "Confederate Heritage Month," @DonnerKay reports at @jxnfreepress. SCV, a Neo-Confederate org Reeves spoke to in 2013 (pictured), is hailing the proclamation.
https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/apr/05/scv-gov-tate-reeves-proclaimed-confederate-heritag/
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Gov. Tate Reeves has long associated with orgs that fetishize the Confederacy. Last year, I found photos & ads showing members of his college fraternity, Kappa Alpha Order, wearing blackface & holding Old South Balls when he was there in the 90s. 2/ https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/feb/08/lt-gov-tate-reeves-fraternity-wore-black-face-hurl/

In 2013, Tate Reeves spoke at the Sons of Confederate Veterans' national reunion. Other speakers at the Neo-Confederate event defended the Confederate "cause," recast racist slaveholders as heroes, & one even compared "the Yankees" to "the Nazis." 3/ https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/feb/13/tate-reeves-spoke-event-where-yankees-were-compare/

Here's Gov. Tate Reeves' "Confederate Heritage Month" proclamation. As @DonnerKay notes, Reeves' spreads responsibility for the war more evenly btwn the north & the south than frmr Gov. Bryant's did; Bryant's proclamation at least noted that the South started the Civil War. 4/

Read @DonnerKay's full report on Gov. Tate Reeves' decision to issue a Confederate Heritage Month proclamation at @JxnFreePress. /5 https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2020/apr/05/scv-gov-tate-reeves-proclaimed-confederate-heritag/