Former Mississippi Gov. Ray Mabus (D-MS) said his state’s declaration of April as Confederate Heritage Month celebrates “something that was really horrific: people trying to own other people.”

CNN’s Victor Blackwell read part of a remark from current Gov. Tate Reeves (R-MS) that stated the state has been honoring Confederate Heritage Month for 30 years.

“Smartly, first, I didn’t do it after I was once governor,” Mabus said, persevering with:

And, 2nd, Accomplice Heritage? In point of fact? The heritage that I call to mind with the Confederacy is slavery, is treason, and is losing. So which one of those heritages are we in point of fact honoring right here? But it surely’s all part of that lost lead to narrative, the ‘Moonlight and Magnolias’ that happened few years after the Civil Conflict in an attempt to reassert white supremacy. It came hand-in-hand with Jim Crow. And, it labored for a long, long time. Statues had been put up, this heritage notion. However what it does is amazingly hurtful, it’s incredibly dangerous, and it honors one thing that we will have to find out about, find out about, however definitely, for sure no longer honor.

Blackwell requested, “Is the Accomplice constituency in Mississippi strong sufficient that to easily simply let this be on the books without signing a proclamation to renowned it, that there would be some political pushback for the governor?”

“Well, there definitely must be some political pushback,” Mabus mentioned. “And, I feel that any individual that thinks that this is something that will have to be performed, that this is one thing in order to lend a hand one way or the other, is simply dead stable wrong.

“And after I was governor, after I was running for governor, my slogan used to be ‘Mississippi will never be closing once more.’ Mississippi has been thus far down on so many measures. And this is without doubt one of the reasons we’re looking to appear again on something that used to be really terrible: people seeking to own folks. And that’s the rationale the Confederate states seceded. All it’s a must to do is learn their articles of succession.”

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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