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    Racist symbol or historical reminder? The debate over the Mass. state seal. - The Boston Globe
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    1. chrisaldrich 09 Aug 2022

      https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/05/arts/racist-symbol-or-historical-reminder-debate-over-state-seal/

      Of course, no mention of other atrocities inflicted by colonialists in Massachusetts here. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst)

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    2. chrisaldrich 09 Aug 2022
      Designed by illustrator Edmund Garrett in 1898, the current seal draws on the original seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which featured a Native American man, naked but for some shrubbery about his groin, saying, “Come over and help us.”
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