Big changes are happening due to these protests. Historical statues are being torn down at a ridiculous rate, regardless of who they depict, there is much property damage throughout the country caused by these “peaceful protests.” If that were not enough many people have been hurt and some have even been killed. So to add to this chaotic movement the state of Rhode Island is changing its name to… Rhode Island.
“…Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed an executive order on Monday taking the “first steps” to change the state’s full name: “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.”
The “plantations” part of the name has come under increased scrutiny following widespread protests after the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
The order, Executive Order 20-48, will change the name to just ‘Rhode Island’ in official communications from the governor’s office – including future executive orders, citations and stationery letterheads. It also calls on all state executive agencies to remove the “plantations” reference from their websites.
The order does not change the state’s official name permanently — that will require voters to amend the Rhode Island Constitution, the order states.
The bill was introduced by Rhode Island’s sole black senator, Harold Metts.”
“The word “plantation” has a connotation associated with slavery leading up to the Civil War. Plantations in the Deep South owned by wealthy white landowners often tasked enslaved black Americans to do the fieldwork, 60% of whom picked cotton, according to the Understanding Slavery Initiative.”
“A 2010 vote on the same issue came back overwhelmingly against changing the name, with 78% of voters opting to retain the Providence Plantations portion, according to The Providence Journal.”
It’s interesting how they are suddenly changing it now after the majority didn’t seem to care a few years back. But really did anyone know that was their official name? No one I have ever met from Rhode Island has ever spouted out that mouthful, and I doubt even they knew that was their official state name.
How stupid is this. Damn. Makes me ashamed to say I’am an American. All this crap going on.
Mike maybe one day you can be proud to be Texan from the great Republic of Texas, formerly of the Great United States of America’s. You can always go back and not put up with this crap.
The longer this goes on the more ignorant it gets. I’m across the country and I’m constantly reminded how unbelievably stupid people are. Does anyone truly think that tearing down statues and renaming states, cities, and schools will erase history??
Mike from Texas…You my friend are not just an American…you are a Southern American. Being from Tennessee, we all stand for the American flag (I get up for the Stars and Bars as well!) My heritage counts too
Just another step in the march toward erasing our history and ushering in a communist dictatorship. Think South Africa. Their legislature last year voted for a bill to strip all white people of land ownership. It was sponsored by Marxists in the Parliament. The land ownership under Aparteid was about 77% white, 23% black. After it’s fall, that reversed with more than three-quarters belonging to blacks. However, the movement backed by the Marxists — South Africa’s equivalent of BLM — to seize the remaining lands from any and all whites and “redistributing” it to blacks. You’d better believe that means themselves and their families will get a huge chunk of that. The Zulus have been completely against it, because they know that they are next. Their autonomy will be eliminated and the mob will seize all they have as well as the mob moves to eat its own.
Oh for god sake, how many people outside of Rhode Island, actually knew that it was anything but Rhode Island? All this PC crapola is NUTS!
Yes, it is. The PC patrol is out of control.
Exactly! (I didn’t, and don’t really need to know it now.) If they want to take that out of the State’s name, have at it. It will have zero effect on anyone.
This raises another burning issue, of nationwide import. Is “Soup Plantation” to now be forced to change that mean-spirited, hateful racist name? And what about that word in the OED and other dictionaries, “niggardly???”
No body knew the full name but maybe the elected officials and this action is to garner a few votes by proving the politicians aren’t racial just plain out stupid.
Is the state of Washington going to change its name?
Cowards go out of the way to take “offense”. Chances are the plantations were worked by Whites.
The term “plantation” at the time was the local word for, wait for it…COLONY. Colony referred to a group of people, at the time from Massachusetts, who settled in a new place but keep ties to their homeland, at the time, England. It had NOTHING to do with slavery or indentured servitude.
But ain’t benightedness and aliteracy great!
“The word “plantation” has a connotation associated with slavery leading up to the Civil War. Plantations in the Deep South owned by wealthy Democratic white landowners.
But you must add that there were some blacks owned by blacks and used as slaves
Total slaves owned by me…zero. Responsibility I bear for some past relative possibly owning some…zero. You know what, I thinkmaybe the Israelites should demand Egypt pay a reparation fee for when they were enslaved…Same logic. There isn’t a person alive that has not had some distant long dead relative be enslaved in some manner long, long ago. Get over it this isn’t then and the sins of the father are not passed to the son…period. Not this son anyway.
At one time just about EVERY NATIONALITY was owned as a SLAVE.
Dummies. Don’t they know in Rhode Island the Definition of plantation:
1 : a usually large group of plants and especially trees under cultivation
2 : a settlement in a new country or region Plymouth Plantation
3a : a place that is planted or under cultivation
b : an agricultural estate usually worked by resident labor
Just a bunch of TOADIES!!!
You can’t fix stupid if it doesn’t want to be fixed !
Get off the plantation and turn that state red.
Don’t the people in Rhode Island have something useful to do with their time and money(for the voting)?
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Once again, complete ignorance on full display for the world to see. Plantation in Rhode Island’s name had zero to do with slavery, and was the historical use of the word for the establishment of a “new” community! Morons!