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Gov. Reeves Declares Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi
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For the fourth 12 months in a row, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a proclamation declaring April as Accomplice Heritage Month in Mississippi, protecting alive a 30-year-old custom that former Republican Gov. Kirk Fordice first started. Black folks make up 38% of Mississippi’s inhabitants, which is the best for any state.
A department of the Sons of Accomplice Veterans, the SCV Camp 265 Rankin Tough & Prepared’s, posted a replica of the proclamation on its Fb web page on Tuesday afternoon.
“Whereas, as we honor all who misplaced their lives in (the Civil Struggle), it can be crucial for all People to mirror upon our nation’s previous, to realize perception from our errors and successes, and to return to a full understanding that the teachings discovered yesterday and right now will carry us by way of tomorrow if we rigorously and earnestly try to know and recognize our heritage and our alternatives which lie earlier than us,” the proclamation says.
“Now, subsequently, I, Tate Reeves, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April 2023 as Accomplice Heritage Month within the State of Mississippi.”
Beginning in 2016, Donna Ladd reported first after which yearly within the Jackson Free Press on then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant’s Accomplice Heritage Month proclamations, and afterward Reeves’ first Accomplice Heritage Month proclamation in 2020. The Mississippi Free Press reported on Reeves’ proclamations in 2021 and 2022.
Reeves’ 2023 proclamation is dated April 31, 2023—a date that doesn’t exist as a result of April solely has 30 days. In Fb feedback, members of the SCV Camp 265 Rankin Tough & Prepared’s famous the error, with the group’s administrator writing, “what do you anticipate it’s from Tater.”
“Woops,” the administrator added in a followup remark.
The group has posted Reeves’ proclamations yearly since 2021; the R.E. Lee Camp 239 SCV Fb group posted the 2020 proclamation. With out SCV teams posting the proclamations and the Jackson Free Press and Mississippi Free Press reporting on them, they may have gone unnoticed as they did earlier than 2016; neither the governor nor some other state official publicizes the proclamations or posts them on any state web sites or social-media pages.
Reeves defended issuing the proclamations in 2021.
“For the final 30 years, 5 Mississippi governors—Republicans and Democrats alike—have signed a proclamation recognizing the statutory state vacation and figuring out April as Accomplice Heritage Month,” he stated in a press release to WAPT on the time. “Gov. Reeves additionally signed the proclamation as a result of he believes we will all study from our historical past.”
Governor Makes Proclamations On SCV’s Behalf
After Fordice turned Mississippi’s first Republican governor in a century whereas courting the white supremacist Council of Conservative Residents and criticizing efforts to atone for the state’s racist previous, he issued the inaugural Accomplice Heritage Month proclamation on the request of the Sons of Accomplice Veterans in 1993.
Since then, one Democratic governor and three Republican governors have adopted Fordice’s lead. Within the 30 years since, just one governor has ever skipped issuing a Accomplice Heritage Month proclamation. Regardless of issuing them for his first seven years in workplace between 2011 and 2018, former Gov. Bryant didn’t challenge a Accomplice Heritage Month proclamation in 2019, his final 12 months in workplace, opting as a substitute for a “Month of Unity” proclamation on behalf of a Christian group.
The language in Reeves’ Accomplice Heritage Month proclamation makes use of a lot of the identical language as one which former Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, who served from 2000 to 2004, issued in April 2000. Musgrove advised Mississippi Right now in 2016 that he regretted signing the proclamations. Former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour additionally signed Accomplice Heritage Month proclamations yearly between 2004 and 2016.
The SCV is a neo-Accomplice group that promotes Misplaced Trigger myths that downplay slavery as the first reason for the Civil Struggle. The group additionally runs Beauvoir, the Gulf Coast residence of Accomplice President Jefferson Davis. Beauvoir is now a museum that yearly receives $100,000 from the State of Mississippi “for the aim of capital improvement and upkeep.”
Although Accomplice Heritage teams like SCV promote a whitewashed model of the South’s function within the Civil Struggle that has usually made its method into textbooks within the state and all through the nation, the historic document makes clear that slavery was the first reason for the Union’s break up and the next Civil Struggle.
“Our place is totally recognized with the establishment of slavery—the best materials curiosity of the world,” Mississippi’s 1861 Declaration of Secession says. “Its labor provides the product which constitutes by far the most important and most vital parts of commerce of the earth.”
Reeves’ ties to the SCV stretch again lengthy earlier than his time as governor. In 2013, he spoke to the SCV’s nationwide gathering in Vicksburg, Miss., in entrance of a large Accomplice battle flag and in a room adorned with smaller Accomplice flags and cotton crops. After then-Lt. Gov. Reeves congratulated the group for “protecting historical past for our youth,” audio system defended the Accomplice “trigger” and in contrast “Yankees” to German “Nazis” in World Struggle II.
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Lengthy earlier than coming into politics, Reeves was a part of a Millsaps Faculty fraternity recognized for Accomplice-themed events the place members wore blackface and for lionizing Accomplice Basic Robert E. Lee. When it turned a problem in his 2019 marketing campaign for governor, although, he denied ever carrying blackface.
Reeves’ Democratic opponent on the time, then-Legal professional Basic Jim Hood, was additionally in a fraternity on the College of Mississippi the place members wore blackface; he equally denied ever collaborating.
Reeves Denied Existence of ‘Systemic Racism’
Within the many years after the Civil Struggle ended, Accomplice veterans, corresponding to Mississippi State College inaugural President Stephen D. Lee, and teams like SCV started the work of remaking historical past in a method that shone a extra favorable mild on the South—muddying the waters over the reason for the warfare and falsely describing it as a “warfare of northern aggression.”
After the Civil Struggle and the failure of Reconstruction, Mississippi’s white leaders labored to enshrine white supremacy in state regulation, adopting a Jim Crow structure in 1890 (its racist felony voter disenfranchisement provision stays in state regulation and continues to disproportionately disenfranchise Black voters). White supremacist leaders in Mississippi renewed efforts to enshrine Accomplice heritage within the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties in response to the rise of the civil rights motion.
Mississippi’s Accomplice-themed 1894 state flag flew over state buildings till 2020, when state lawmakers voted to retire and substitute it amid a nationwide race reckoning about Black activists’ efforts for many years and within the wake of younger Black Mississippians main protests towards racism and the Mississippi flag after the homicide of George Floyd. Regardless of his marketing campaign pledge to not help efforts to retire the flag, Gov. Reeves signed the invoice retiring the outdated flag into regulation, calling it “a regulation to show a web page in Mississippi right now.”
“It’s trendy in some quarters to say our ancestors had been all evil. I reject that notion. I additionally reject the elitist worldview that these United States are something however the biggest nation within the historical past of mankind. I reject the mobs tearing down statues of our historical past—north and south, Union and Accomplice, founding fathers and veterans,” the governor stated in 2020, criticizing Black Lives Matter protesters at the same time as he signed the laws retiring the outdated state flag. “I reject the chaos and lawlessness, and I’m proud it has not occurred in our state.”
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Regardless of signing the regulation that modified the outdated flag, although, Gov. Reeves continued to disclaim the lasting results of the state’s white supremacist historical past. In 2021, he advised Fox Information that “there may be not systemic racism in America”—contradicting mountains of proof, together with the vestiges of Jim Crow that stay in power in Mississippi regulation just like the State’s racially focused 1890 voter disenfranchisement regulation.
Then, in 2022, Reeves signed a so-called “vital race idea ban” into regulation, which is a misnomer as a result of regardless of its legislative title, the regulation neither mentions nor describes vital race idea. As he signed the invoice, the governor claimed that “vital race idea is working amok,” even though the lawmakers who drafted it admitted that they didn’t know of any public Okay-12 colleges the place the tutorial idea is taught.
He additionally painted vital race idea, which addresses systemic racial inequalities within the authorized system and all through society, as a software of indoctrination that’s used to “humiliate” white folks.
“Youngsters are dragged to the entrance of the classroom and are coerced to declare themselves as oppressors, that they need to really feel responsible due to their race, or that they’re inherently a sufferer due to their race,” he stated on the time.
For extra on the Sons of Accomplice Veterans, “redemption” schemes, and the censorship marketing campaign to romanticize and sanitize the Confederacy in southern and U.S. textbooks, learn this in-depth piece about first Mississippi State College President Stephen D. Lee’s profitable efforts to rewrite the Accomplice narrative.
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Mississippi
Possible overdose at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, according to officials
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RANKIN Co., Miss. (WLBT) – The Rankin County Sheriff’s Department reports that they have been called to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility for an alleged overdose.
The Rankin County Coronor, David Ruth, confirmed to WLBT staff that he was called to the scene to recover a body. He said he was unable to comment on the cause or manner of death until he performs an autopsy.
The Department of Health also says they have been called by the facility for a hazmat situation.
More law enforcement vehicles were seen by WLBT crews entering the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility as authorities continue to investigate a death at the prison.
Details are currently limited. WLBT has reached out to the Mississippi Department of Corrections for a statement on the situation but have yet to hear back.
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Mississippi State Football Depth Chart for ASU: Kelly Akharaiyi Status Uncertain
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STARKVILLE – Mississippi State debuted 41 new players against Eastern Kentucky, including 23 transfers. But one of the biggest transfer portal additions wasn’t on the field and may not be again this week.
Senior receiver Kelly Akharaiyi was left off Mississippi State’s depth chart that was released and coach Jeff Lebby didn’t provide much clarity on the situation either.
“He’s getting closer and closer,” Lebby said at Tuesday morning press conference. “We need to be patient with him. We hope he has a good week and can create some confidence for himself more than anything. But I’m not ready to say he’s going to be available.”
Akharaiyi was one of the transfers most were looking forward to seeing in Lebby’s fast-paced, passing offense. But he was held out of season-opener for what was thought to be a minor injury. However, his uncertain status might be a sign of a more serious injury?
Or is Lebby playing a game of cat-and-mouse with Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham? We’ll found out soon enough.
QB1 – 2 Blake Shapen, 6-1, 210 lbs., Sr.
QB2 – 16 Chris Parson, 6-1, 215 lbs., Rs Fr.
or – 0 Michael Van Buren Jr., 6-1, 200 lbs., Fr.
RB1 – 24 Keyvone Lee, 6-0, 225 lbs., Sr.
-or- 21 Davon Booth, 5-10, 205 lbs., Sr.
RB2 – 20 Johnnie Daniels, 5-10, 200 lbs., Jr.
SLWR1 – 3 Kevin Coleman, 5-11, 180 lbs., Jr.
SLWR2 – 8 Creed Whittemore, 5-11, 185 lbs., So.
SLWR 3 – 80 Kade Kolka, 5-11, 190 lbs., Sr.
WR1 – 6 Jordan Mosley, 6-0, 195 lbs., Jr.
WR2 – 5 Stonka Burnside, 6-0, 200 lbs., Fr.
WR3 – 13 Sanfrisco Magee, 6-2, 200 lbs., Fr.
WR1 – 14 Trent Hudson 6-3 180 Jr.
WR2 – 7 Mario Craver 5-10 170 Fr.
WR3 – 11 Jaden Walley 6-0 190 Sr.
TE1 – 18 Seydou Traore, 6-4, 235 lbs., R-Jr.
– or – 84 Justin Ball, 6-6, 250 lbs., Sr.
TE2 – 86 Nick Lauderdale, 6-3, 225 lbs., Sr.
or – 10 Cameron Ball, 6-6, 250 lbs., So.
LT1 – 66 Makylan Pounders, 6-5, 310 lbs., Jr.
LT2 – 51 Luke Work, 6-6, 305 lbs., Fr.
– or – 74 Jimothy Lewis Jr., 6-6, 310 lbs., Fr.
LG1 – 75 Jacoby Jackson, 6-6, 320 lbs., Jr.
LG2 – 53 Malik Ellis, 6-5, 285 lbs., So.
C1 – 67 Ethan Miner, 6-2, 305 lbs., Sr.
C2 – 72 Canon Boone, 6-4, 315 lbs., Jr.
RG1 – 77 Marlon Martinez, 6-5, 320 lbs., Sr.
RG2 – 52 Grant Jackson, 6-6, 325 lbs., Sr.
RT1 – 76 Albert Reese IV, 6-7, 330 lbs., Jr.
RT2 – 55 Leon Bell, 6-8, 325 lbs., R-Jr.
RT3 – 78 Amari Smith, 6-7, 325 lbs., R-Fr.
DT1 – 22 Kedrick Bingley-Jones, 6-4, 310 lbs., Jr.
– or – 23 Trevion Williams, 6-4, 295 lbs., R-Fr.
DT2 – 98 Ashun Shepphard, 6-3, 280 lbs., Jr.
DT1 – 35 Kalvin Dinkins, 6-2, 315 lbs., So.
– or – 8 Sulaiman Kpaka, 6-3, 300 lbs., Sr.
DT2 – 92 Eric Taylor, 6-4, 310 lbs., Jr.
– or – 90 Kai McClendon, 6-2, 305 lbs., Fr.
DE1 – 9 De’Monte Russell, 6-4, 285 lbs., Sr.
DE2 – 91 Deonte Anderson, 6-3, 270 lbs., Jr.
– or – 46 Joseph Head Jr., 6-4, 240 lbs., R-Fr.
JLB1 – 11 Ty Cooper, 6-4, 245 lbs., Jr.
– or – 44 Branden Jennings, 6-3, 240 lbs., Jr.
JLB2 – 36 Donterry Russell, 6-4, 225 lbs., So.
MLB1 – 7 Stone Blanton, 6-2, 230 lbs., Jr.
MLB2 – 26 JP Purvis, 6-1, 245 lbs., Sr.
DLB1 – 40 Nic Mitchell, 6-2, 230 lbs., Jr.
– or – 5 John Lewis, 6-3, 240 lbs., Jr.
DLB2 – 16 Zakari Tillman, 6-2, 225 lbs., So.
FS1 – 2 Isaac Smith, 6-0, 205 lbs., So.
FS2 – 12 Tyler Woodard, 6-2, 200 lbs., Jr.
SS1 – 21 Hunter Washington, 5-11, 190 lbs., Jr.
SS2 – 27 Chris Keys Jr., 6-0, 190 lbs., Jr.
– or – 17 Jordan Morant, 6-0, 210 lbs., Sr.
CB1 – 1 Kelley Jones, 6-4, 195 lbs., R-Fr.
– or – 6 Traveon Wright, 6-0, 180 lbs., R-Fr.
CB2 – 13 Raydarious Jones, 6-2, 180 lbs., Sr.
– or – 18 Khamauri Rogers, 6-0, 180 lbs., So.
CB1 – 14 Brice Pollock, 6-1, 190 lbs., So.
CB2 – 4 DeAgo Brumfield, 6-0, 190 lbs., Sr.
K1 – 80 Kyle Ferrie, 6-1, 205 lbs., So.
K2 – 82 Nick Barr-Mira, 6-0, 185 lbs., Sr.
K3 – 49 Marlon Hauck, 6-3, 195 lbs., So.
P1 – 82 Nick Barr-Mira, 6-0, 185 lbs., Sr.
P2 – 83 Zach Haynes, 6-1, 195 lbs., Sr.
P3 – 88 Ethan Pulliam, 6-1, 190 lbs., R-Fr.
KO1 – 49 Marlon Hauck, 6-3, 195 lbs., So.
KO2 – 82 Nick Barr-Mira, 6-0, 185 lbs., Sr.
PR1 – 3 Kevin Coleman, 5-11, 180 lbs., Jr.
PR2 – 8 Creed Whittemore, 5-11, 185 lbs., So.
KR1 – 21 Davon Booth, 5-10, 205 lbs., Sr.
– or – 20 Johnnie Daniels, 5-10, 200 lbs., Jr.
– or – 3 Kevin Coleman, 5-11, 180 lbs., Jr.
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Mississippi
Arizona State eyes first win against an SEC opponent vs. Mississippi State
Mississippi State at Arizona State, Saturday, 10:30 p.m. ET (ESPN)
BetMGM College Football Odds: Arizona State by 6 1/2.
Series record: First meeting.
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
Arizona State and Mississippi State both had dominant wins in the season-opening weekend and now have a tougher challenge when they face each other on Saturday night. The Sun Devils are trying to build off an impressive 48-7 win over Wyoming and prove they might be a factor in the Big 12 race. Arizona State has never beaten an SEC opponent. Mississippi State plays its second game under new coach Jeff Lebby. The Bulldogs beat Eastern Kentucky 56-7 in their season opener..
KEY MATCHUP
Mississippi State QB Blake Shapen vs. the Arizona State defense. The Sun Devils scored a touchdown on the second play of their opener when Zyrus Fiaseu picked off a pass and returned it to the end zone. It was one of two interceptions on the day for Arizona State. Shapen had a great debut against Eastern Kentucky but will face a much tougher defense on Saturday.
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Mississippi State: Shapen had a terrific first game with the Bulldogs, throwing for 247 yards and three touchdowns while also running for 44 yards and a TD against Eastern Kentucky. The 6-foot-1 senior played the previous three college seasons at Baylor with mixed success. Shapen has thrown a TD pass in 12 consecutive games dating to this time at Baylor in 2022.
Arizona State: RB Cam Skattebo led a balanced rushing attack against Wyoming, gaining 49 yards and scoring a touchdown. Skattebo was a do-it-all player for Arizona State last year, spending time at quarterback, running back and receiver. The Sun Devils might not need him to be as versatile this season, but he’s still a threat from just about anywhere on the field.
FACTS & FIGURES
Mississippi State had six different players score touchdowns against Eastern Kentucky. … The Bulldogs’ 93.7 passing grade in the opener was the second-best mark in all of the FBS, trailing only Purdue, according to Pro Football Focus. … Mississippi State’s Kevin Coleman Jr. returned five punts for 117 yards last week. … Arizona State was credited with just two missed tackles on defense in the opener, tied for the third-lowest tally among FBS schools. … Skattebo is 270 rushing yards away from reaching 3,000 in his career. He is 342 all-purpose yards away from reaching 4,000 and 202 receiving yards away from reaching 1,000.
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