Race Amity Day’s purpose to focus on building friends to break down racial barriers. Cape Cod Toy Library is pleased to participate in this First Annual Race Amity Day Festival, June 13, 2021, to celebrate family, fun and culture in Mashpee.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts A Proclamation
His Excellency Governor Charles D. Baker
Whereas Massachusetts supports the Great Seal of the United States of America which bears the inscription, E Pluribus Unum, which translates from Latin as “Out of many, one”; and Whereas The greatest asset of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is its people; and Whereas The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is comprised of multicultural, multiethnic and multiracial citizens; and Whereas Friendship, collegiality, civility, respect, and kindness are commonly shared ideals of the collective citizenry of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and Whereas The Towards E Pluribus Unum Initiative has invited communities across the United States of America to join in introspection and reflection on the beauty and richness of the diverse peoples of this great nation while reaching out with a spirit of amity toward one another annually on the second Sunday in June; and Whereas H 2745, Chapter 163 of Acts of 2015 of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts establishes the Second Sunday in June Annually as Race Amity Day,
Now, Therefore, I, Charles D. Baker, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby proclaim June 11th, 2017, to be, And urge all the citizens of the Commonwealth to take cognizance of this event and participate fittingly in its observance. Given at the Executive Chamber in Boston, this Twenty-Third Day of March, in the year two thousand and seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the two hundred and forty-first.
By His Excellency
Charles D. Baker
Governor of the Commonwealth
Karyn E. Polito
Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth
William Francis Galvin
Secretary of the Commonwealth