[mass55th]

Next they’ll be renaming Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Mass.

[DannyTN]

Change it to farms.

Then let’s watch them boycott farms.

[Sirius Lee]

And don't forget to ban plantains! The fruit sounds too much like plantation. All, they change color as they ripen which is raciss.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

WTH??? Was RI even a slave state? I swear!

[The Public Eye]

Greetings from Rhode Island. We’re so small not too many people know anything about us. The official name of the state is “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” All those letters and words. We were founded about 270 years ago by a bunch of Protestant zealots who couldn’t get along with the fine folks in Massachusetts. Roger Williams being one of them. Our first Governor while being a Baptist minister. (Take that for separation of church and state.)
We are named as we are because historically Newport on Rhode Island was the capital and the hub of activity. Providence and the surrounding communities were more rural. While many of the movers and shakers back in the day, did profit from slavery via the triangle trade, wide spread abusive slavery was not practiced in those “plantations” now called towns, like Warwick or Cranston.
Governor Raimondo is a control freak mini despot who has been enjoying her moment in the sun with here covid 19 shutdown. She has no sense of Rhode Island history, nor does she care. The white liberals around here bring out this name change every time they want to pander for the black vote.

[Verginius Rufus]

Rhode Island achieved statehood in 1776 when the Continental Congress declared independence from Great Britain, not in 1790 when it ratified the Constitution. It was the last of the 13 states to accept the Constitution, more than a year after Washington took office as the first President (and by a 34-32 vote). The Constitution refers to the state as Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in Article I, Section 1.

Why not object to the "Rhode" part because it sounds too much like Cecil Rhodes?

[hanamizu]

So, if there were no slaves in the colony/state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations why does the Providence Plantations have to go? Is it based on an assumption that some people who might be offended are too ignorant of the state’s history to know better? And what does that say about the people who want the words removed?

Do Spanish speakers need to change their word for the color black because it may cause discomfort to the ignorant? And how about that large river in West Africa and the two nations named for it?

[elbook]

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Time to send such panderers home.

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[Albion Wilde]

At the time of naming, the word “plantation” did not necessarily mean or involve slave labor. I recall the word being used to describe the movement of a large group of Scottish people over to the territory now known as Northern Ireland in the 17th or 18th century.

[foreverfree]

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