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Personally, I would have chosen a month with 31 days in it, but I'm not the Governor.
"Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month.
The first-year governor is following the practice of several of his Democratic and Republican predecessors, and his action is drawing criticism from the state’s only African American congressman.
“Unnecessary,” Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson wrote Monday on Twitter.
The Mississippi chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans recently posted Reeves’s proclamation on its Facebook page.
“God bless the Confederate Soldier. Many of whom are buried in unmarked and unknown mass graves throughout the South,” the group said in the post. “May he, or his sacrifices, never be forgotten...”
Mississippi governor declares Confederate Heritage Month
"Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month.
The first-year governor is following the practice of several of his Democratic and Republican predecessors, and his action is drawing criticism from the state’s only African American congressman.
“Unnecessary,” Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson wrote Monday on Twitter.
The Mississippi chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans recently posted Reeves’s proclamation on its Facebook page.
“God bless the Confederate Soldier. Many of whom are buried in unmarked and unknown mass graves throughout the South,” the group said in the post. “May he, or his sacrifices, never be forgotten...”
Mississippi governor declares Confederate Heritage Month