Amanda Koonlaba, who teaches young children in Mississippi and advocates for equitable funding, shared this news item.
Governor Phil Bryant declared April to be “Confederate Heritage Month.” The photo shows him dedicating the new civil rights museum as the State flag flies next to him, bearing a Conderate battle flag on it.
Amanda commented that the good news is that the voucher bill died.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
April is the cruelest month …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmYIo7bcUw
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Should we commemorate a government committed to preserving slavery despite the sentiments of those who live there now?
I wonder if the Germans have a Third Reich Heritage Month
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The Nazi party and other similar parties are banned in Germany, so that’s doubtful.
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The voucher school bill dies this time. It will be back and if it fails again, it will be back again. The oligarchs have been at this for decades and have proven that they will not stop—at least while they live and maybe even in death since most of their wealth is hidden inside foundations.
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“Confederate Heritage Month”?
Is that a month that celebrates losers?
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The CSA had negro slavery built into its constitution:
Article I, Section 9, Clause 4 prohibited the Confederate government from restricting slavery in any way:
“No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.”
Article IV, Section 2 also prohibited states from interfering with slavery:
“The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.”
Perhaps the most menacing provision of the Confederate States Constitution was the explicit protection Article IV, Section 3, Clause 3 offered to slavery in all future territories conquered or acquired by the Confederacy:
“The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several States; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.”
This provision ensured the perpetuation of slavery as long and as far as the Confederate States could extend it’s political reach, and more then a few Confederates had their eyes fixed on Cuba and Central and South America as objects of future conquest.
Unlike the Confederate States Constitution, the United States Constitution freely permitted states to abolish slavery. If the day ever came when slavery was eliminated voluntarily throughout the United States of America, not one word of the United States Constitution would need to be changed, whereas slavery could never lawfully be abolished under the Confederate States Constitution.
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/what-the-confederate-states-constitution-says-about-slavery.72233/
The CSA constitution: what a vomitous document.
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Can’t we declare the Confederacy were domestic terrorists? They did take up arms against the legitimate government. These terrorists (and their current supporters) should be imprisoned and/or exported.
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You mean the poor people who took up arms to fight for the rights of rich people to own other human beings? I’m sure the poor would never support interests of the rich today… *sigh*
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Oh wow… Some people in the south act like the Civil War happened five years ago. There were actually times when the whole Confederate Flag issue was so disruptive that I actually walked over to the small US Flag near the while board and said, “Well I’m an ‘American,’ and this is my flag.” Okay, maybe that wasn’t the best thing for a teacher to do in the south, but then again the United States won the war and the Confederate States lost.
Full disclosure: I was born and raised in Ohio.
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At the risk of being named a nazi, I would point out that very few northern people opposed slavery on the grounds that Black people should be equal. The abolitionist movement was floundering until the Free Soil Party successfully argued that slave owners were threatening the north by taking all the good land, depriving the northern freeholder of land to own. Northern attitudes considered Negroes inferior, and the Jim Crow South was tolerated by the all powerful Republican majority even as thousands of Blacks were lynched and voting rights were ripped from them.
Maybe we should quit flying both flags. People we find distasteful and dangerous have committed atrocities under either banner I the ensuing years. Anyone can corrupt a symbol.
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Roy, you could say the same thing about some of our recent disastrous wars.
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