In the woke, identity politics heyday of 2020-2021, left-wingers took an occasional breath between yelling silence is violence and writing checks to the corrupt communists running Black Lives Matter to bully everyone into erasing blacks and Indians from the American landscape. It was a natural extension of the BLM contradiction. We’re saying this while burning down your businesses, turning your neighborhoods into chaotic war zones, killing your men and raaing your women (or something close to it).
If you dared to point out the contradictions, you were a racist, white supremacist (regardless of skin color) or some bigoted MAGA deplorable, even if a registered Democrat.
Aunt Jemimah lost her diversity hire job, Mia, the Indian maiden had her land stolen from her by Land-O-Lakes, Uncle Ben’s face fell off the rice package, the Redskins became the “Washigtnon Football Team and then The Commanders (which, as I noted here, is worse), and even Mutual of Omaha dropped their chief (while the Kansas City Chiefs said F-off which, as a New England Patriots fan was the only thing we could like about them. Yes, Mahomes is, without a doubt, a generational talent, but let’s not get distracted.
During this wild and crazy ride, I observed that Massachusetts should change its name. Having culturally appropriated it from the Massachusett tribe, the only decent thing to do, while we were celebrating the self-inflicted overdose death of a career criminal in police custody with ritual woke sacrifices, was to change it.
That didn’t happen, but they did decide to change the State flag, and it is, as you’d likely guess, stupid.
The Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Commission in late August announced that it has chosen its three finalists for each category. Out with the iconic Algonquian brave holding a bow and arrow. Out with the defiant Latin motto: “By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty,” especially fitting for the state that birthed the American revolution. Out with the arm bearing a sword atop the flag, a visual embodiment of that motto and the official Massachusetts National Guard crest.
Ugly and stupid.
I was born in Massachusetts, though I didn’t really ever live there—a few months as a newborn. But I feel qualified to say that nothing about any of that reminds me of Massachusetts, even its current reprehensible iteration. And no one asked me, but if we were being honest, “Protect Corruption and Raise Taxes” is more accurate, under the picture of a hand with a costly watch reaching into someone else’s pocket to take their money.
What Bay Staters will end up with is one of the above three, unless they stand up and raise holy hell in a handbasket – Cracker Barrel rebellion style. So, maybe get on that, please. I live in New Hampshire, and I’m embarrassed to be in a state that shares a border with a state that used to be the cradle of liberty, reduced to a petty tyranny, and now a flag like whatever they pick from that trio of garbage.
A hammer and sickle would, at least, be honest.
