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Rhode Island considers name change due to slavery connotations
Fox News ^
| June 23 2020
| New York Post
Posted on 06/23/2020 7:25:20 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
YALE needs to change it’s name, maybe to YELLOW
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:25:56 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(#openupstateny)
To: knighthawk
More stupidity. Be very sure our enemies are taking notes on how to take over the U.S. without much effort.
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:27:49 AM PDT
by
EinNYC
To: knighthawk
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:28:50 AM PDT
by
angmo
(America invented the Moon, so we could go there.)
To: knighthawk
I guess I’ll have to reconsider adding plantation shutters to my foyer window.
To: 1Old Pro
"YALE needs to change its name, maybe to YELLOW" That would be appropriate as the Ivy League would then have its Brown and Yellow universities...although Brown may have to change as it was named after a family that also had at least one or two slave traders.
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:30:58 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: knighthawk
To: knighthawk
Rename it Peter Griffin and get it over with.
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:32:39 AM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
To: knighthawk
Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire need to be combined into 1 state. They can name it whatever they want.
Delaware needs to be absorbed by Maryland.
California needs to be made into two or three states.
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:33:05 AM PDT
by
Eccl 10:2
(Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" don't)
To: knighthawk
I vote for
Patriarca Island
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:33:08 AM PDT
by
M-cubed
(The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
To: knighthawk
So the governor is unaware of her own state's history?
(I know, a democrat...)
Per wiki: Roger Williams was a Puritan theologian and linguist who founded Providence Plantations in 1636 on land given to him by Narragansett sachem Canonicus. He was exiled under religious persecution from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; he and his fellow settlers agreed on an egalitarian constitution providing for majority rule "in civil things," with liberty of conscience on spiritual matters. He named the settlement Providence Plantation, believing that God had brought them there. (The term "plantation" was used in the 17th century as a synonym for "settlement" or "colony.") Williams named the islands in the Narragansett Bay after Christian virtues: Patience, Prudence, and Hope Islands.
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:33:16 AM PDT
by
reintarnation
(not a noob, i just change my identity over the years...)
To: knighthawk
An “executive order” isn’t law. That is unless your name is Obama.
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:34:59 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: 1Old Pro
To: knighthawk
Plantation: “an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor”
Imbeciles are constantly attempting to “hijack” words.
To: knighthawk
Call it Grindr. The naming rights for a state must by yuge.
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:36:59 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
To: knighthawk
Nothing any worse than a rabid female lib....they’re the worst of the worst. All they do is make decisions based on their raw emotions at any given moment.
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:37:39 AM PDT
by
lgjhn23
(Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
To: knighthawk
How about naming it something like SoyViet Island?
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:38:51 AM PDT
by
Perseverando
(Liberals, Progressives, Islamonazis, Statists, Commies, DemoKKKrats: It's a Godlessness disorder.)
To: edwinland
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:39:06 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(#openupstateny)
To: knighthawk
Given that Providence Plantation was settled by whites and had no black slaves, what is the basis for being aggrieved? Is it just another opportunity to display ignorance and bigotry?
To: traderrob6
Imbeciles are constantly attempting to hijack words. They went to school, but the teachers were niggardly with vocabulary lessons.
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posted on
06/23/2020 7:39:30 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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