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1 posted on 06/26/2009 3:49:20 AM PDT by shove_it
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To: shove_it

Once again history goes down the memory hole thanks to PC BS.


2 posted on 06/26/2009 3:51:16 AM PDT by shove_it (and have a nice day)
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To: shove_it

And just how many people actually know the full name of the state of Rhode Island? I’m from MA and I never knew this. This is just more liberal empty symbolism.


3 posted on 06/26/2009 3:53:28 AM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: shove_it

Well that’ll be enough to cause me to use the entire raightfull name.

The word plantation doesn’t automatically denote a slave farm.


4 posted on 06/26/2009 3:53:55 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: shove_it
Historic illiterates.

The word "plantation" is used here in the same manner as in "Plymouth Plantation" and the way the English "planted" Protestants in Northern Ireland.

6 posted on 06/26/2009 3:58:58 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can.)
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To: shove_it

Good!!!,,,

Learn em’ too spelll “ROAD”!!!...(dumb yankezz!)...;0)


7 posted on 06/26/2009 4:00:03 AM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: shove_it

History buffs—was there slavery on any Providence plantations as this bill says there was?

That may just be a modern intrepretation of the word “plantation”.


9 posted on 06/26/2009 4:02:04 AM PDT by exit82 (Be vigilant--what is happening on Iran's streets may yet happen here in America.)
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To: shove_it

Three words to liberal PC revisionists. Get Over IT.


10 posted on 06/26/2009 4:02:12 AM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 163)
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“Plantation was an early method of colonization in which settlers were ‘planted’ abroad in order to establish a permanent or semi-permanent colonial base...”

“...In the state of Maine, the old meaning has been preserved in the name of local government jurisdictions. It is also preserved in the full name of Rhode Island, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.”

Once again, PC go wild.


11 posted on 06/26/2009 4:02:19 AM PDT by Woodman ("The law is a funny thing")
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To: Rocco DiPippo

You know anything about this?


13 posted on 06/26/2009 4:06:38 AM PDT by Allegra ( Iran Azadi!)
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To: shove_it

Perhaps the names of the Democrat and Republican Parties should be changed as well to:

The Democratic Party and Black Plantation

The Republican Party and Conservative Plantation

Don’t you dare go runnin’ off boys. We’ll send the dogs after you! Get too uppity and we’ll sell you down the river!


16 posted on 06/26/2009 4:07:24 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Fight from where you stand)
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Although it’s not a big enough state then may I suggest the name Oprahoma.


21 posted on 06/26/2009 4:12:12 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: shove_it

I suggest “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Dude Ranch.”


22 posted on 06/26/2009 4:15:39 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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To: shove_it

“Rhode Island, a PC liberal plantation” is kinda catchy.


29 posted on 06/26/2009 4:28:35 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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To: shove_it

they should do this. all american history has to be re written to attone for the sins of our founding fathers and whites must pay.


30 posted on 06/26/2009 4:36:47 AM PDT by dalebert
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Wouldn’t it just be easier and quicker to just eradicate all white people?

We have become a very sick, diseased and suicidal people. It is almost indescribable what we willingly allow and take part in. Lemmings have nothing on us. Our children, whats left of them, will damn us to hell.


32 posted on 06/26/2009 4:40:36 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: shove_it

A little White Guilt, eh Rhodies?
Got news for you. Doing this won’t erase your White Guilt.


33 posted on 06/26/2009 5:00:12 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: shove_it
"State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." A push to drop "Providence Plantations" from that name...

Then the name would be "State of Rhode Island and." ;-)

34 posted on 06/26/2009 5:17:04 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: shove_it
“...their home should simply be called the “State of Rhode Island.”

How about “Small, insignificant, but still a State”

35 posted on 06/26/2009 5:27:26 AM PDT by pappyone (New to Freep, still working a tag line.)
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To: shove_it
More ludicrous political correctness. The term "plantation" had quite a different meaning when the colonies were first established to what it came to mean in the South immediately pre-Civil War. Another history-ignorant moron promulgating this malarkey.

Almost as bad as the "niggardly" fiasco.

36 posted on 06/26/2009 5:35:12 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog ( The Hog of Steel)
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I’m jealous. Things are going so well in Rhode Island, that the State legislature can afford to waste time on idiocy such as this. While they’re at the name change, they should outlaw the use of the word ‘niggardly’ as racist. Just clean all that racist stuff up.


37 posted on 06/26/2009 10:06:49 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
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To: shove_it

I suggest they use TSFKARIAPP

The State Formerly Known as Rhode Island and Providence Plantations


39 posted on 06/26/2009 10:32:14 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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