Rename it Rhode House in honor of Patrick Swayze :o)
Posted on 10/27/2009 9:13:22 PM PDT by Saije
Rhode Islanders may get a chance to shorten the state's longest-in-the-nation formal name over its ties to colonial slavery.
Officially, Rhode Island is called the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
But the House Judiciary Committee approved a resolution Tuesday that would allow residents to vote next year on whether to drop the words "Providence Plantations" from that name.
The issue now heads for a House floor vote.
Supporters say "Providence Plantations" conjures painful images of colonial slavery. Rhode Island merchants grew wealthy off the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Maybe they should rename it to commemorate “gay marriage”?
How about simply “Home of the Northeastern Mafia”?
Is Rhode Island even an island?
And should it be a state?
Perhaps it can just be merged with Connecticut.
Rogue Island
I figure we just write it off, like expired inventory. The west coast and northeastern corridor can just become unincorporated. We’ll let them fly over those bitter Bible and gun clingers.
Rename it Rhode House in honor of Patrick Swayze :o)
Would you merge it or connect it? If it didn't work out, you could cut the connection.
Providence Plantation was the settlement founded by 17th-century religious dissident Roger Williams, who supported the separation of church and state.
But why let historical fact interfer with what makes the libtards feel good?
It’s a niggardly gesture.
What a bunch of panty twisters.
But the House Judiciary Committee approved a resolution Tuesday that would allow residents to vote next year on whether to drop the words "Providence Plantations" from that name.
LOL... Won't the name "State of Rhode Island and" sound rather silly?
How often do the media do stories about slavery in other countries? Like on, Mauritius? Just for example.... which I think still has chattel slavery to this day?
They should change it to "Fred".
“Plantations” means places where lots of things are planted. No more, no less. Only people who are looking for scabs to claw open would go to that much trouble. Gee, I wonder what the motivation is there?
These people must have too much time on their hands. Gees, they should fire everyone of them or lock them up in some kind of an asylum.
There is a funny story about just that. After the English Restoration in 1660 the American colonies had to send representatives to London to get their charter's confirmed. Two colonies, Plymouth Bay and New Haven, made the mistake of trusting neighboring colonies (Massachusetts and Connecticut respectively) to represent them, only to find their own charters dissolved and their territory merged into the larger colonies. Connecticut also made an effort to absorb Rhode Island and paid a bribe to the king for it. The Rhode Island representative in London knew he could not top Connecticut's bribe so he did a very clever thing. He instead bribed the king's schribener, the guy who actually draws up the official charter copies for everyone to sign. When the Connecticut delegation discovered the clause pertaining to Rhode Island was missing from their new charter it was too late.
We can't have any conjuring going on. Might offend some folks.
In the meantime, Africans who got wealthy in Mali and Senegal and the Gambia from the slave trade feel no remorse whatsoever; many African countries of Islamic persuasion not only don’t care about the slave trade - they still participate; the great-great-grandchildren of Atzec thugs who practiced ritual serial murder on enslaved neighboring tribes embrace their traditions; and every other corner of the world which happily and willingly enslaved neighbors, friends, wives, children, and anyone else they could get their hands on simply don’t give a flying fig about their own nasty, cruel, heartless, and inhumane treatment of others.
The people in Rhode Island are merely taking part in the ritual suicide of their own culture and history. It would be refreshing for someone to stand up and defend the history of tolerance in the state, starting with Roger Willliams, and tell people who don’t like the name to STFU. Refreshing, but not probable.
So sad to see our own citizens decide that beating yourself is acceptable.
They could change it to The State Formally Known as Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.