... that it is okay to bite the hand that feeds you.

I still think the ultimate in chutzpah was the Jamestown shipwreck survivers who were saved by free blacks... whom they then enslaved.

-- Mal

the Bay Area is on the opposite coast.

edit: I never knew that about Jamestown!

The "starving time" in Jamestown was 1610

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starving_Time

The survivors of Sea Venture also arrived about then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Venture

However, the first Black People came about 1619.

http://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/african-americans-at-jamestown.htm

Have I missed something in your post?

Been a few years.

-- Mal

This country is full of state flags with awkward and/or offensive symbolism.

Not to mention that the US flag is pretty much the flag of genocide, in historical and modern eras alike.

In this mad rush of Two-Minute Hate on the Confederacy, a standard is being set that few if any will pass. Unless we're having some sort of "slavery bad, genocide good" kind of moment here, in which case we abandon all pretense of having moral and ethical values.

I'll settle for addressing the flag of a nation founded specifically on the principal of white supremacy.

Not sure what it is called in heraldry, but the little twist over the actual shield (with the sword arm) is some kind of appurtenance that doesn't relate to the shield.

It's a separate part of the "achievement" from the arms proper.

which is a pretty significant difference.

but people in the state considered secession during the War of 1812:

"Britain and France were at war in Europe, and both nations hoped to stop American trade with the enemy, a harassment that disrupted America's profitable "neutral trade" with the Caribbean islands. After numerous protests, President Thomas Jefferson declared an embargo in December 1807, banning all U.S. trade with belligerent ports. When Britain continued to interfere with American shipping, the two nations drifted to war.

"The declaration of war was a severe blow to New England, since its merchants had grown prosperous on commercial ties with Great Britain and its Canadian and Caribbean colonies. With seaports experiencing unemployment rates upward of 60 percent, Massachusetts Federalists protested the embargo, and when America entered the war, they continued trading with the British.

"Governor Caleb Strong refused to allow Massachusetts militia to leave the state, despite federal pleas for support, and opposition to the war emboldened some to call for New England's secession from the United States."

https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/899/page/1310/display?page=5

I can't even.