As regular readers may recall, we covered Minnesota’s creation of a new state seal and state flag, to replace the ones that had been in place for well over a century. Leftists, who controlled the committee responsible for the new seal and flag, erased Minnesota’s history by adopting a bland, meaningless, geometric corporate logo. No more pioneer, no more Indian–history, erased.
The same thing is happening in Massachusetts. Like Minnesota, Massachusetts already has a perfectly good state flag and seal. Also a state motto: my Latin is poor, but a friend says the motto translates to “seeking peace (or quiet) by the sword under liberty.” Here is the Massachusetts flag, which is also the state seal:
The dignified Indian is probably a tribute to the Massasoit who befriended the first colonists.
But history is anathema to Leftists, who are determined to erase it. Thus we have a drive to create a new flag, seal and motto. These are the three finalists for the new Massachusetts state flag:
What are they? A local news source explains:
The top three flags involve a circle of turkey feathers on a crimson background; a six-pointed gold star embedded in a white mayflower against a blue background; and blue hills and waves with an eight-pointed gold star.
Mayflower, get it? Meaningless geometry, with all history excised.
As in Minnesota, Massachusetts leftists who claim to be devoted to Native causes want to remove the Indian from the flag and seal. Why? The New York Times headlines: “A State Wrestles With Its Imagery: A Sword Looming Over a Native American.”
In Massachusetts, [Ted Kaye, one of the country’s foremost flag experts] said, the sword was added to memorialize liberty from the British. It was “not meant to be oppressing the Indian,” he said, “but certainly that’s how people perceive it.”
Really? What people? Anyone not on the left-wing payroll?
What is going on here is a conscious effort to erase real American history, so that leftists can substitute a fake history, in which basically nothing other than slavery and slaughter of Indians has ever happened in America. (Never mind that most of the slaughter went in the opposite direction.)
You can see that in the potential new Massachusetts mottos. The existing motto, which essentially means peace through strength, would be replaced by a liberal formula: “Multae voces, una res publica,” or “Many voices, One Commonwealth.” Diversity! Or “We honor all life guided by the First Light.” Does that refer to Genesis? Of course not! Google’s AI tells us:
“First Light” primarily refers to the Wampanoag people, also known as the “People of the First Light,” who inhabit the eastern coast of North America and were the first to greet the sunrise in that region. The term can also be used to describe the dawn or the beginning of a new day in a more general spiritual sense within various Native American cultures, often associated with prayer and connection to the Earth.
Right. Of course, there are hardly any actual Native Americans left in Massachusetts. Elizabeth Warren is almost the last one, although her purported Cherokee tribe is native to the Southeast, not Massachusetts. But that is fine with the Left. For liberals, Indians occupy a privileged place in their narrative, without needing to exist in today’s world, at all, but for a few well-paid activists.
Milan Kundera said that the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. The Left’s attempt to obliterate state flags, seals and so on, that preserve memories of our history, is one small part of their battle on behalf of forgetting.
