Thread: Proposed license plate states 'Hispanics discovered Florida'

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Proposed license plate states 'Hispanics discovered Florida'

By Victor Manuel Ramos | Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer
9:06 AM EDT, June 26, 2008

Early concept for Hispanic specialty plate, as proposed by National Hispanic Corporate Achievers. (NATIONAL HISPANIC CORPORATE ACHIEVERS / June 25, 200



Honk if you love Hispanics.

A license plate that touts "Hispanics Discovered Florida" may soon join the 109 specialty tags drivers can choose from.

The idea to celebrate the contributions of Hispanics came from National Hispanic Corporate Achievers, a Longwood group that sponsors minority job fairs. The plate would become a fundraising tool to support job and mentorship programs.

Danny Ramos, the group's president, said the tag's message is about cultural pride for Florida's 3.6 million Hispanics -- even if not all of Latin American or Spanish descent identify with the term.

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Florida specialty license plate coverage
WTF? N.C. plates will no longer carry profane abbreviation Video "Every community wants to be recognized for its contributions to society," Ramos said. "I think this is just part of our assimilation process and our acceptance in Florida."

A preliminary concept for the plate seeks to unify Hispanics by going back to their historical roots -- when Spaniards colonized the peninsula before the arrival of English-speaking settlers.

One concept features the image of a Spanish galleon and the date 1513 -- the year Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Le�n first landed in what is now Florida.

Some Florida tags already recognize racial and ethnic groups. One is dedicated to the memory of civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Others include American Indian tribes.

The Hispanic-tag proposal is being reviewed by Florida highway officials. It also has the support of state Sen. Gary Siplin, a Democrat in a district with many Hispanic residents.

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Ponce de Leon was from SPAIN, not a country named "hispanic". This is an insult to Spaniards.

That website should be hispanicmakebelievers

The white Europeans from Spain discovered Florida. They also planted the first oranges in the US and they brought Tomatoes to South America and they brought Horses too.


Dixie

Last time I checked and remember from history class, the SPAINARDS discovered Florida....

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-121082.html
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Man they are reaching aren't they.....they discovered Florida and built America Maybe they should have concentrated alittle harder on Mexico. Do they ever get tired of making fools of themselfs.

I hope someone informs the Spaniards of this new discovery.

You can vote on this proposal at the article site

Floridians are not happy with this idea.

Hispanics discovered Florida right around the same time of the mass amnesty of 1986 and have been coming illegally every sense!

Something to be proud of huh! We have some elected traitors down in Florida who are willing to rewrite history in order to pander to hispanics.

Disgusting!

Funny thing is my wife has quite a few relatives in Spain and the Basque region. If you told them they were Hispanic they might hit you. They consider themselves Spanish and Basque at the least European. Certainly not Hispanic.

I hought it was discovered by a blue haired lady in a white Buick with
Mass plates and a gold AAA sticker on the back bumper