Should Rhode Island change its name?

When you said they wanted to change it I thought you wanted top get rid of the island part. I guess the place was a penal colony. The big shots thought it was an island until the criminals just walked off.It has been connected to Connecticut and Massachusetts, ever since.

As an African American and a Resident of Rhode Island, the name of the place is fine. Here is my reasons: One reason is that many people have no idea what so ever what Providence Plantations is, nor did they ever care. Two, plantation is the name of the place that planted some crop so it doesn't really have anything to do with slavery.

Three, Rhode Island was at one time a leader in the slave trade, but no one would care or know that if people would stop hearing about how the name means that. The thing about prejudice, is that people keep using seemingly good intentions to keep it going. By continuously making people think about prejudice in situations like this, you keep it in the mind of us African Americans that we were slaves and in the mind of whites that they have some reason not to trust or like us.

I would just rather these people not use my race because they want to change the name of the state, instead just do it because it takes a long time to put it on documents.

Mr. Almeida is misguided, does he not know the history of his own state. The name should stand.

I have to admit that my facetious nature would like me to suggest that they change the name to Flu Continental, but I will refrain. I don't think that it would hurt to change the name of any state for any reason, except that businesses would incur enormous expenses, in stationary, address contacts, etc. What does surprise me is how many people know so little about the institution of slavery. I don't mean slavery in the US or even in the Americas, I mean slavery throughout history.

Here is a wiki link; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.