• Bone@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I was just driving behind a North Carolina plate the other day. Apparently their plates read “First in Freedom”. Seems like they’ve lost sight of things.

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      “First in Flight” was the original (because the Wright brothers’ first flight was in NC), then they added “First in Freedom”. It’s because NC was the first state to write/sign a Declaration of Independence from England, over a year before the Declaration of Independence.

      But it was a fucking slave state. I’ve always thought the “First in Freedom” license plate was insulting.

      Also, Mark Robinson is insane and a horrible person. Obviously.

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      That’s one you can choose. I’ve always stuck with the classic First in Flight. Way too many In God We Trust driving around though

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        Which is wrong anyway, the Wright brothers were born, raised, and died in Ohio, had their bicycle shop in Ohio, designed/built the first airplane in Ohio, and only took it to Kitty Hawk in NC for test flights.

        Speaking as an Ohioan, NC can go fly a kite with that “first in flight” nonsense.