Yeah, That Picture's Real: Black Tennessee Mayor Proclaims April 'Confederate History Month'

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The article announcing “Confederate History Month” features an image of Mayor Curtis Hayes surrounded by "Dukes of Hazzard" extras who are described as members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. It looks like a hostage photo.

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Yeah, That Picture’s Real: Black Tennessee Mayor Proclaims April ‘Confederate History Month’
Seriously, the picture is real. We also have some history for you!
10:15 PM · Apr 20, 2022

https://www.wonkette.com/yeah-that-pictures-real-black-tennessee-mayor-proclaims-april-confederate-history-month

Last week, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves proclaimed April "Confederate Heritage Month,” but a grown man named “Tate” is capable of anything. I’m more concerned that Livingston, Tennessee, Mayor Curtis Hayes has also signed a proclamation declaring April “Confederate History Month." Curtis Hayes is Black. The treasonous Confederacy was overtly anti-Black.

White supremacist wannabe Vice President Alexander Stephens stated in his infamous Cornerstone Speech that the ideas within the US Constitution were “fundamentally wrong” because “they rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error.”

STEPHENS: Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

Yeah, Stephens was one evil son of a bitch, but he didn’t mince words. You can argue that America’s racial failings were the result of flawed men straying from honorable intentions. However, the Confederacy was always intended to exist and thrive as an apartheid slave state.

Yet here’s Curtis Hayes, a Black man in the age of Ketanji Brown Jackson, using his elected authority to promote the Lost Cause.

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[Carlitos Brigante]

1. "Why thank you bo...... errrrrr... I mean.... Mayor..." nt

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Shithole State

A state I very much wanted to visit, but now probably never will.

[Captain Zero]

7. Memphis really is worth a visit. And Smoky Mtns National Park...

Shithole is pretty much right for the rest of it. That's basically everything between Memphis and the Smokies National Park. haha.

I visited that Dolly World/ Gatlinburg area once.
Every shop filled with stars and bars shit.
So I got pissed and didn't buy anything in those shops.
Saved me some money there.

[electric_blue68]

3. What the ...

😧

did they threaten his family or something?

(as far as I've known black conservatives don't
support The Confederacy, right!?)

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Because it isn't Critical Race Theory when Whites are extolled

and African-Americans are made to feel less than "American".

[Emile]

6. Something is wrong down in Tennessee.