Massachusetts residents demand changes to state flag over ‘White supremacy culture’By Nikolas Lanum, Fox News
March 6, 2023
Residents in Newburyport are demanding that the City Council replace the Massachusetts flag and seal, claiming that the imagery is problematic and helps promote the state’s racist history.
According to the Newburyport Daily News, the Council received a resolution on Feb. 27 asking them to support the work of the Special Commission Relative to the Seal and Motto of the Commonwealth. The Commission, in part, recommended replacing the seal and flag to better reflect the diverse residents now living in Massachusetts.
That same day, the resolution was referred to the General Government Committee in a 9-2 vote.
The resolution has been pushed by Newburyport residents Marianna Vesey and Linda Lu Burciaga, who say that 55 other municipalities have already adopted the change. Vesey and Burciaga also claim that dozens of other municipalities are considering the resolution.
Vesey said the state seal supports the idea that White people are “in charge of this world and that we have to subdue the Native American people” through a “colonializing and violent depiction.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/03/06/massachusetts-residents-demand-changes-to-state-flag-over-white-supremacy-culture/
