Smokey1
Well-Known Member
This crap is completely nuts now. I guess the word "plantation" is now racist. The lone black state legislator insists it is. Did all plantations involve slavery? Did Rhode Island ever have plantations with African slaves working the fields?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/rhode-island-change-official-state-name-slavery-connotations
https://www.foxnews.com/us/rhode-island-change-official-state-name-slavery-connotations
But change is brewing in the union’s smallest state, as 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.