RI to vote on dropping 'Plantations' from its name

Yahoo News ^ | Oct 26, 2010 | ERIC TUCKER

[rdl6989]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – This state's official name — The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations — is more than just a mouthful. To many, it evokes stinging reminders of Rhode Island's prime role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Voters next Tuesday will decide whether to change the name by dropping the words "and Providence Plantations." The issue has been debated for years, but lawmakers last year authorized a ballot question for the first time following an impassioned debate over race relations, ancestry and history.

[rdl6989]

Does the PC madness ever stop?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Run away and hide from your past, that’s the way to do it.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If there were anyone alive today who had labored as a slave on a plantation, I’d say this was a good idea.

[Semper911]

I will be voting against it. Not because I give a damn about what the name is, but because I don't want the state to have to spend millions on changing their stationary and signage.

That is my money they will be spending to change everything.

[brytlea]

The stupidity of the left, to believe that if you don’t talk about something it never happened. I believe that if you talk something to death it takes the sting out of it and eventually people stop caring about it.

[Eternal_Bear]

and it is not even an island.

[Plutarch]

RIP RI&PP.

[FrankR]

The liberals will never shut up until they get the world exactly like THEY want it....trouble it, they don't have a clue how they want it.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Isn’t there an island in a bay in the state of Rhode Island with the island named Rhode Island? I thought the state got its name from that island, while the Providence Plantations referred to the mainland. At least that’s my recollection of history. Anybody who knows better should educate all of us.

I heard that officials of Brown University have their panties in a twist over the role of their founders in the slave trade. Brown is in Providence, Rhode Island.

[donhunt]

I used to have a US senator who lived in a compound.

He’s dead now.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The Rats have proven that by calling so many people “racist” when they clearly are not, they have made the slur nearly meaningless.

[Stormdog]

“I used to have a US senator who lived in a compound.

He’s dead now.”

But his legend staggers on.

[AU72]

The Colony came into being when Roger Williams and his supporters were thrown out of Massachusetts because they opposed the Puritan theocracy.

Plantations? LOL! Do the moonbats associate Rhode Island with South Carolina?

Much of this country has lost their mind, or least the portion that controls thinking.

[brytlea]

Exactly. It loses it’s sting.

[TXnMA]

Revisionist History: blinding oneself (and future generations) to the truth...

[got_moab?]

Not in Rhode Island. The past few years a handful of State Rep’s from urban areas would submit a bill every legislative session calling for a voter referendum on this issue and finally this year the House Leadership let it pass. Luckily this thing is going to go down in flames..

[rdl6989]

Luckily this thing is going to go down in flames..

Good!

[Rebelbase]

A local developer built a large apartment complex and named it the Plantation. I think he had ulterior motives in doing that.

[NoLibZone]

NPR- The National Plantation Radio network is going to like this.

[RKBA Democrat]

Why not drop the “Rhode Island” part? That would be more accurate.