Mississippi: Southern Poverty Law Center Condemns Confederate Heritage Month

KLBT ^ | April 15, 2022 | KLBT Digital

[Macho MAGA Man]

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Southern Poverty Law Center Mississippi state director, Waikinya Clanton, released a statement condemning Governor Tate Reeves’ proclamation of Confederate Heritage Month.

“Despite every effort from the people of Mississippi to pave a new way forward, leaders like Governor Reeves remain fixated on undermining the public’s will for a brighter, better, and more inclusive Mississippi,” said Clanton.

The entire statement is shown below.

“It is unfortunate that the governor chooses to glorify the Confederacy—a traitorous government that fought against the United States for the right to enslave Blacks. Despite the historical vote to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag in 2020, more than 150 Confederate memorials remain in Mississippi—including 72 roadways, 48 monuments, and eight schools. These memorials celebrate the injustices that people of color in the South suffered at the hands of Confederates who viewed Black people as subhuman and unworthy of the freedom to exist in this country.

The hypocrisy of recognizing April as both Genocide Awareness and Confederate Heritage Month is both a slap in the face to more than 1.1 million people of color who live in the state and are constantly haunted by the lifelong effects of systemic racism, hatred, and bigotry.

[Who is John Galt?]

"...(I)t is misleading to date the tradition of American liberty from the late 1780s, since the Constitution of the United States was in fact only the culmination of generations of practical self-government on the part of Americans. At the time of the framing of the Constitution and the formation of an allegedly 'more perfect union,' the colonists had precedents for challenging the powers of a confederation, as in the case of the Confederation of New England, for rejecting a confederation, as in the case of the Albany Plan of Union, and for bringing down a confederation by force, as in the case of the Dominion of New England. It can hardly be surprising, therefore, to learn that at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, three states [Virginia, New York, and Rhode Island] in acceding to the new confederation, explicitly reserved the right to withdraw from the Union at such time as it should become oppressive. In so doing they were only exercising the vigilance and libertarian principle that had animated the American experience during the colonial period.

"Thus when a union of polities becomes an end in itself, as it has in the minds of some since the days of Daniel Webster but certainly since Abraham Lincoln's revolution, the repudiation and indeed perversion of the colonial ideal is complete. Yet today, even self-proclaimed conservatives, whom one might expect to be engaged in preserving their country's tradition of liberty, cavalierly decry attachment to the principles embodied in the Confederate flag as "treason," even though the value of self-government vindicated by the South had been insisted upon since colonial times. The real traitors, however, are not the Confederates, but those who betray the real American tradition of independence and self-government in favor of the principle of unlimited submission to central authority. This is what the colonial period has to teach us."

Excerpt from Colonial Origins of American Liberty, by Thomas Woods
Delivered at the Mises Institute conference, The History of Liberty, January 2000

[FLT-bird]

Of course they do. They are a Leftist PC Revisionist hate group.

[FLT-bird]

Had the Southern states been allowed to depart in peace, slavery would have died out rapidly. Without the benefits and protections of the fugitive slave clause of the US Constitution the original 7 seceding states could never have secured their 1500 mile border. Any slave who crossed that border would be in a foreign country and instantly free.

It would have also served as an excellent check on the tendency of the federal government to become oppressive and abusive. If after all, states could simply leave if they were being exploited, that would shut down the the avenues for exploitation.

Without US entry into WWI, the warring powers would have had to come to a reasonable negotiated settlement - making the rise of Hitler politically impossible. Thus no WWII.

[BrexitBen]

Uh, I think you need to re-read what you posted.

Don’t look now, but your fears for the “ united “ States have been fully realized in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Undoubtedly, Lincoln’s little incursion was a road map for Putin and his ilk.

[Controlling Legal Authority]

And if they had stayed peacefully within the Union wouldn’t the same logic apply?

[cowboyusa]

If Jackson had been President in 1861, he would have crushed the rebellion, and hanged the traitors. But by all means support what was a Demonic country.

[BrexitBen]

A “ demonic country “ ?

Yeah, Mr. Lincoln’s holy cause of invading states, exercising their constitutional right to secede, as the New England states had threatened a half century earlier, was entirely justifiable.

Thanks for educating me.

[cowboyusa]

Your welcome. Be brave big mouth, group to a black person and tell the the Confederacy should have won.

[DoodleDawg]

Slavery would’ve died a natural death in 20 years, with the onset of technology.

What technology?

[petitfour]

Is this the organization out of Montgomery that makes black women come to work and lets the white folks work from home?

[FLT-bird]

No, obviously not.

[wardaddy]

Wonder how many here are donators to the SPLC

they all fly from the same nest

Jonah Goldturd

Nevertrumpers

South bashers

Same sack of shite

[wardaddy]

Really

While abolitionists and rich north easterners were funding and plotting slave revolts to butcher white men women and children

What would you have done

The Disease of the Public Mind

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Respectfully suggested you read it

[BrexitBen]

I’ve had this discussion with many black friends over the years. When I show them the many Lincoln quotes, where he said that blacks were inferior, and that he expressed the desire to ship all U.S. blacks to Africa after the war, they are completely astounded.

Read Thomas DiLorenzo. His books are meticulously footnoted, and you’ll discover a wealth of fascinating facts about the 1850s and 1860s, that somehow didn’t make it into NEA history textbooks.

[DoodleDawg]

When I show them the many Lincoln quotes, where he said that blacks were inferior, and that he expressed the desire to ship all U.S. blacks to Africa after the war, they are completely astounded.

How about posting them here?

[DoodleDawg]

Undoubtedly, Lincoln’s little incursion was a road map for Putin and his ilk.

Oh barf.

[Rebelbase]

H.K. Edgerton, former president of the Asheville, North Carolina, chapter of the NAACP, disagrees.

[Dead Corpse]

The SPLC is a Socialist organization. Their opinion only matters to those in the MSM who use them as a sounding board.

[Dead Corpse]

I’ve read that exact same line of thinking. Mechanization was making the expense of slavery untenable except for a few markets. Not so ironically, those same niche markets where illegal labor is now filling those slots.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Senegal and the Caribbean were other places Lincoln was going to deport them to.