Posted on 05/13/2021 6:16:50 PM PDT by SamAdams76
Car dealerships abound in our nation. People are constantly buying cars. What I do not understand however is why so many of them have "Colonial" in their name.
For example, we have Colonial Subaru in Danbury, Connecticut. (#1 Volume Subaru dealer in all of Connecticut)
Then you got Colonial Ford in Plymouth, Massachusetts, should you wish to purchase one of those F-150 pickups with 11 cupholders and a place for your dog to sit in the back.
If you want to have one of those little Hondas, you can go to the Colonial Honda in South Chesterfield, Virginia. They will give you quite a deal there, I heard.
If you would rather shop for a Mitsubishi, you got the Colonial Mitsubishi in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
It's crazy when you think about the number of auto dealerships that have "Colonial" in their name. In Dartmouth, Massachusetts, they have the Colonial South Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram dealership.
If you want to get one of those gas-guzzling 4-Runners, you can get it at Colonial Toyota in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
I can go on and on with car dealerships with Colonial in the name. When will this madness end?
We even have a Colonial Volkswagon in Medford, Massachusetts.
You can even get one of those RV's at Colonial RV in Millstone, New Jersey.
I can come up with many more dealerships with "Colonial" in the name but I think I made my point.
I’m sure some of the woke crowd would want to cleanse these names from businesses, given the implications of the colonization of America in our history. Colonization led to the creation of a nation which is racist sexist homophobic etc. so these woke people would want to change such names.
And what about that Colonial Pipeline which supplies so much gasoline? Soon there will be pressures to change that name I’m sure.
The pipeline cuts right thru my neighborhood - it runs across the street from my house. It’s that close. There are signs marking it. I found it unnerving when I first moved in.
On a related note in my hometown there is a major flag manufacturing company. The mass produce US flags, state flags, flags for just about any purpose.
Naturally a few years ago they got all woke and stopped producing confederate flags. That’s racist don’t you know.
The name of this flag company? Dixie Flag Manufacturing.
Liberals have no sense of irony.
In my town in beautiful mid-Michigan there are a lot of businesses with
spartan in their names...because we’re close to MSU, home of the Michigan State Spartans. Nothing with colonial that I can think of. Apparently, it’s a function of where you live.
There’s even a Colonial Honda in Southern California.
The Colonies have not yet been CANCELED!
The woke generations think that the United States of America was a colonizing country. Wait! We were the colonies; not the colonizers. It’s too bad they don’t learn history.
I think you only had one example that wasn’t in the 13 colonies.
The sports teams of Anaheim High School in Anaheim, Calif. are the Colonists, symbolized by a Pilgrim carrying a blunderbuss—even though the name “Colonists” was inspired by a group of viticulturalists from Silesia who settled the area in the later nineteenth century. They referred to their community as a “colony” and named it after the nearby Santa Ana River.
Now you can't tell me Ohio was one of the 13 colonies!
The one correctly named dealership I came across was in Denver and named after the owner, who's last name was... and I'm not kidding... Swindle.
Colonial is nothing compared to First. First National this First National that. First Methodist, First Presbyterian, First Lutheran, First Baptist, etc.
Ever heard of a Second National Bank or Second Methodist Church?
Well, there is Fifth Third Bank.
Weren’t they trying to do away with the word ‘plantation’ a few years ago.
Half the businesses in Alaska have “Alaska” in their name.
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