Massachusetts is designing a new state seal and motto, and Rich Barlow hopes his fellow residents will take the time to vote. A commission overseeing the redesign will make its recommendations to the Legislature by November 15.
From the nation’s easternmost extremity to its midriff, states areof their flags and seals for varying reasons. Utah leaders thought their banner to be banally indistinguishable from too many states’. A trivial anxiety, perhaps. But it appeared even more so when measured against the anxiety it triggered in cultural warriors.
Similarly impotent objections arose in my state of Massachusetts, which has made the decision to redesign its colors. A commission developing a new seal and motto, which adorn the flag, has solicited public help, via anHaving completed the survey, I come not to plug my choices but to plead the standard electoral exhortation: Whatever your preferences, vote. Massachusetts wisely chose to redesign, for a rationale that’s anything but trivial.
Heraldry experts — who know the ins and outs of armorial bearings — say the image alludes to preserving liberty against religious bigotry in the English motherland from which colonists fled. That, some argued, invalidated the Indigenous objection that the seal depicts our violent destruction of Native tribes. Yet the seal inevitably evokes that destruction for the vast majority of people who see it, since they obviously aren’t heraldry experts.
Whatever your preferences, vote. Massachusetts wisely chose to redesign, for a rationale that’s anything but trivial.
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