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Commenter Alice in Wonderland offers a sensible compromise to the Urge to Purge building among the conformitariat to throw either Alexander Hamilton off the $10 bill or Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill for their ineradicable straight white maleness:
Why can’t they keep the person who is on the $10 or $20 bill or whatever and concurrently issue an additional $10 or $20 bill or whatever with the new person? I mean, they aren’t limited to having only one person on the bill at a time. Look at the quarter series that had all the states. They can issue a new bill while continuing to issue the same one we have now.
Sure, that makes perfect sense, but the point is much less to honor some woman or nonwhite, but instead to degrade a white man and thus dishonor white men in general. It’s the same thrill ISIS and the Taliban get when they dynamite some ancient pagan temple.
Another problem is that American history has surprisingly few super high-achieving women. Part of the reason is the lack of royalty that provides political heroines like Elizabeth I of England and enlightened despotesses like Catherine the Great of Russia and Maria Theresa of the Austrian Empire, whose formidable visage is immortalized on the greatest coin of all time, the Maria Theresa thaler. (Joan of Arc of France is a political heroine sui generis.)
But there’s also the lack of a major American female cultural heroine, such as Jane Austen, who is on the new ten pound note in Britain.
This is less because American women were oppressed and kept from being writers. In truth, there were endless American women bestseller authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Hunt Jackson. But they just weren’t really … all that great. Or at least not Jane Austen great, who was a bestseller in her own short lifetime, extolled by the giants of subsequent generations (such as Dickens), and is a superstar in the 21st Century 200 years after her death.
I guess Emily Dickinson would be the closest American equivalent to Jane Austen, but … you can’t make Clueless or Bridget Jones’ Diary out of poems.
If you want to put on a bill the American woman who was #1 all-time at the most American cultural role, movie goddess, well, there’s no shortage of mock-ups already on the Internet, such as:
Commenter SPMoore8 suggests:
Just in honor of how well Muslims are assimilating in this country, I nominate Mohammed for the $20 bill. Let’s see how that works out.
And from the Old, Weird America files, here’s the U.S. Three Dollar Coin of 1854-1889, with Lady Liberty wearing an Indian princess headdress on the obverse.
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In Russian money is sometimes referred to as “grandmas” (babki) because more than 200 years ago an old woman’s face (Catherine the Great’s) appeared on it. It’s roughly equivalent to “bucks” in American English. “I’m making big grandmas”, etc.
Yes yes yes!
But you never delve into why white liberals are compelled to denigrate the white race.
They do it because they were told as youth that you must reject your white heritage in order to be a good person.
Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
It is that simple. White liberals were raised up (via the educational curriculum) to believe that white is evil, and that the only way to atone is to hate whiteness.
But how did that come to pass? It was not that way 60, 50 years ago. I was there in the mid 60s, so I know. The white guilt paradigm did not exist in that time frame.
But somehow, the curriculum changed, shifted to make whites the ultimate evil.
I know–I taught high school and junior high english for a couple years in the mid 90s. The educational curriculum had radically shifted.
And then that shifted paradigm bled into hollywood the entertainment industry.
Why? How?
Nothing in this world happens at random. Some force is always behind it.
Why am I the only person in the world to ask this question?. An even more intriguing question.
Everyone goes on stamps.
I hear Flannery O’Connor and Katherine Anne Porter were real good.
If it’s money, shouldn’t businessmen be on the bills?
I strongly recommend Bernie Madoff for the $3 bill.
That old battle axe, Carrie Nation is my choice.
And they ditched ADM Hopper, the highest achiever and patriot of the group proposed because she’s white military officer.
I nominate Louisa May Alcott and Sylvia Plath. The latter killed herself and the former was a childless, white lesbian who checks off two diversity boxes. Thus they were both perfect examples of what the Left wants whites to do to themselves.
I bet it's going to be Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth or Correta Scott King (This pick will be roundabout way of recognizing MLK)
Just in honor of how well Muslims are assimilating in this country, I nominate Mohammed for the $20 bill. Let’s see how that works out.
Also, Emily Dickinson is a really great poet.
Willa Cather might do.
You can check out the potential of her visage re currency production here.
I favor the jaunty stylings of this pose, myself.
Although these days either Harper Lee or Carson McCullers might be even better fits for the zeitgeist.
Funny you should mention both Maria Theresa Thalers and Muslims. In most of the Arabian Peninsula and in the Horn of Africa, MTTs have been the default unit of exchange in non-advanced markets for 250+ years, even in the present day!
The Victorians first noticed it–one of them theorized it was because Maria Theresa’s rack appealed to the Middle Eastern male’s taste. Later it has become accepted that the reason is because everyone there trusts the MTT’s silver content, and it is hard to counterfeit: Arab traders apparently carefully count the pearls in her necklace.
Helen Hunt Jackson?
Helen Gurley Brown?
Margaret Knight?
Actually, who am I kidding? This portrait looks pre-posed for the $10 bill . . . .
Laura Ingalls Wilder?
I thought the same thing Sailer did – there are few women of great consequence in American history. This is especially true when we compare American women to the men who have been featured on our currency.
Most of the “great” women are perceived to be great by virtue of their influence over their powerful husbands. Many of the others were simply “accomplishing” things men were already doing. Yes, I know that in itself is somewhat remarkable, but not really. Honoring the first woman pilot or someone whose “feets are tired” next to the intellectual founders of America does nothing except turn the entire episode into a farce of clearly unequal comparisons.
Maybe the selection should be Rosie the Riveter – a fictional figure devoid of factual inconsequence who can be used as a prop for anything. She is strong, equal to a man and has infinite potential.
It is certainly better than nominating someone who accomplished little more than participating.
Like many other things about the U.S., the currency has become something of an odd duck among the world currencies. The U.S. issues its banknotes in the same color, in the same size, without rotating who is featured on the banknotes, without featuring anyone other than politicians, and despite years of inflation will only issue coins for the most minor amounts. And they are stuffed with masonic symbolism.
It would be pretty hard to make this worse, but people are going to do their best.
Of the people on the banknotes, Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin on anything people might actually use, if you replace one it has to be Jackson. Not just because what he did to the Indians, and to the currency itself. You just can’t argue that his contributions to the republic were equal to the other five.
Note that Jefferson has already been quietly dropped from the banknotes, just by no longer printing the one that featured him.
I agree that American history and culture is devoid of woman who can be plausibly featured. Sacagawea was a nice try that wound up illustrating the problem. Maybe the best option is Alabama’s contribution to the statues in Congress, Helen Keller.
We should make some changes to the currency so we get much less change back when we buy something. It's better to get back 5 bills or coins rather than 13.
They should get rid of the penny and have everything divisible by 5 which is what Switzerland does.
We definitely should have a 2 dollar coin or bill, a small 50 cent piece and a 20 cent piece that are actually given out by retailers. That is the only way people will use it.
This way $9.69 would be rounded to 9.70. We would get back a 5 and either 2 2 dollar bills or coins and a a 50 cent piece and 20 cent piece, which is a total of 5 coins or bills. Now we would get 13 bills and coins when we get back 9.69- a five, 4 ones, 2 quarters, a dime, a nickel and 4 pennies.
I used to think we should get rid of the dollar bill and get a 1 dollar coin, but I am not sure now. I don't like change. Either way a 2 dollar coin or bill that is used is needed.
They should also give the price with the taxes already included.
I do like the size of US bills, but they certainly could put different images on them.
I have to say a word in favor of Jane Austen. She was simply a formidable intellect. To think that she could have written something like Pride and Prejudice when she was a mere 21 years old is almost mind boggling. It isn’t just her literary skill, but the keen awareness of human psychology she displays. Who among us was that perspicacious at 21?
Now, to return to the subject at hand, if we must put a female’s visage on our money, what’s wrong with Lady Liberty herself? She’s already an established American icon and should b fairly uncontroversial.
How ’bout leaving Andy and Alex where they are, but create a new denomination — say $15 — and put a female on that? Win-win, no?
It would be more democratic; the more people like a denomination, the more they’ll hang on to it (rather than hurry to unload it on a merchant whence it ends up, after a few iterations, in a Federal Reserve shredder — the fate of those Jefferson $2 bills that never caught on).
Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
It is that simple. White liberals were raised up (via the educational curriculum) to believe that white is evil, and that the only way to atone is to hate whiteness.But how did that come to pass? It was not that way 60, 50 years ago. I was there in the mid 60s, so I know. The white guilt paradigm did not exist in that time frame.But somehow, the curriculum changed, shifted to make whites the ultimate evil.
I know--I taught high school and junior high english for a couple years in the mid 90s. The educational curriculum had radically shifted.And then that shifted paradigm bled into hollywood the entertainment industry.Why? How?Nothing in this world happens at random. Some force is always behind it.Why am I the only person in the world to ask this question?. An even more intriguing question.Replies: @gruff, @Anonym
Don’t be coy.
There’s already a mockup of him on the $1: http://moneyart.biz/usi/usi-1A.html
Also, Emily Dickinson is a really great poet.
Train up a child in the way he should go,
And when he is old he will not depart from it.
It is that simple. White liberals were raised up (via the educational curriculum) to believe that white is evil, and that the only way to atone is to hate whiteness.But how did that come to pass? It was not that way 60, 50 years ago. I was there in the mid 60s, so I know. The white guilt paradigm did not exist in that time frame.But somehow, the curriculum changed, shifted to make whites the ultimate evil.
I know--I taught high school and junior high english for a couple years in the mid 90s. The educational curriculum had radically shifted.And then that shifted paradigm bled into hollywood the entertainment industry.Why? How?Nothing in this world happens at random. Some force is always behind it.Why am I the only person in the world to ask this question?. An even more intriguing question.Replies: @gruff, @Anonym
The Frankfurt School would be my guess.
Dead ten years before I was born, the picture on that Marilyn Monroe dollar bill still made me look. Marilyn was simply the most beautiful woman, maybe not in history, but in Hollywood history certainly.
The joke’s on them, Andrew Jackson would undoubtedly want nothing to do with the freak show that is 2015 America.
Time is money, and David Foster Wallace wrote a book about an America where the year of our Lord is a product advertisement. It’s also an America where there are “Dworkinites”–terrifying militant feminists who wear heavy leather because they’re a motorcycle gang. Funniest book ever written. And I was just reading Edward Luttwak’s Strategy, about the paradoxical logic of war and peace, and well it occurs to me that no greater blow could be struck for the sanity of American Civilization than forcing everyone to know Andrea Dworkin as that quintessential feminist whose face is unfortunately on our money. Then we get lots of statues put up of that cow, with some such inscription like: the figure of the final logic of feminism.
I’d vote for a composite “pioneer mother” image on one our bills.
Not one great woman, but the type of woman that made America great: the moral, pious, civilizing white woman who settled the north American wilderness.
These are the women who were celebrated back when white Americans fought for their own interests.
http://truesonsofabraham.com/pioneer-mother.htm
I’d rather not see a change to the $10 or $0 dollar bills, but I do like the idea of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her books are great and embody what I think of as the American spirit.
Both Catholics, by the bye, the novel being a particularly Catholic art form.
What’s wrong with an allegorical woman? Columbia, Lady Liberty, Nike?
I mean, it’s good enough for the French:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_euro_coins
Yes, what another commenter said. I’d put Willa Cather in a Top 5 list of American novelists.
Read The Professor’s House sometime. It’s a strange little book, haunting in a unique way, and I think about it more often than almost all the novels I’ve ever read.
By the way, if you read only one book of meta-literary criticism, make it this one on Cather:
I feel this American heroine is the obvious choice to replace Andrew Jackson. She was strong, courageous, decisive, and entrepreneurial. Most importantly, she took on a job her sexist era considered a man’s – and did it as well as any man could. Feminists should applaud this candidate.
How about Leif Erikson’s sister, Freydis Eriksdottir, Scourge of the Skraelings? She was North America’s original Butt-Kicking Babe.
I mean, it's good enough for the French:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_euro_coinsReplies: @endicott coil
Didn’t they use Catherine Denueve as Marianne for years-or was that Brigitte Bardot?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne#ModelsReplies: @hodag
Freydis may be an even better choice – after all, she was an immigrant, not some New England-born WASP.
All of the above–and more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne#Models
I think the most inspiring and brave woman of all should grace our currency: Caitlyn Jenner. She’s a high achiever; she married a Kardashian!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckEkk8QAaf8
It would be pretty hard to make this worse, but people are going to do their best.
Of the people on the banknotes, Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin on anything people might actually use, if you replace one it has to be Jackson. Not just because what he did to the Indians, and to the currency itself. You just can't argue that his contributions to the republic were equal to the other five.
Note that Jefferson has already been quietly dropped from the banknotes, just by no longer printing the one that featured him.
I agree that American history and culture is devoid of woman who can be plausibly featured. Sacagawea was a nice try that wound up illustrating the problem. Maybe the best option is Alabama's contribution to the statues in Congress, Helen Keller.Replies: @Ttjy, @WowJustWow, @iffen
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We should make some changes to the currency so we get much less change back when we buy something. It’s better to get back 5 bills or coins rather than 13.
They should get rid of the penny and have everything divisible by 5 which is what Switzerland does.
We definitely should have a 2 dollar coin or bill, a small 50 cent piece and a 20 cent piece that are actually given out by retailers. That is the only way people will use it.
This way $9.69 would be rounded to 9.70. We would get back a 5 and either 2 2 dollar bills or coins and a a 50 cent piece and 20 cent piece, which is a total of 5 coins or bills. Now we would get 13 bills and coins when we get back 9.69- a five, 4 ones, 2 quarters, a dime, a nickel and 4 pennies.
I used to think we should get rid of the dollar bill and get a 1 dollar coin, but I am not sure now. I don’t like change. Either way a 2 dollar coin or bill that is used is needed.
They should also give the price with the taxes already included.
I do like the size of US bills, but they certainly could put different images on them.
Europe not only had great (or at least famous) female monarchs but also
a whole panoply of female saints that every Catholic child (which means
practically everyone on the Continent) knows about. Examples:
– Joan of Arc (France), of course
– Clare of Assisi (Italy), companion of St. Francis
– Teresa of Avila (Spain), mystic and doctor of the Church
– Catherine LabourĂ© (France), mystic
– Bernadette Soubirous (France), one of the visionaries at Lourdes
– Therese of Lisieux (France), mystic
– Faustina Kowalska (Poland), mystic
and a couple of women who so far have been beatified:
– Blessed Lucia Santos (Portugal), one of the visionaries at Fatima
– Blessed Mother Teresa (Macedonia and Kosovo)
Millions of people venerate them, pray to them, and try to follow
their example but, interestingly, feminists seem to have zero
interest in them
The post-Vatican II establishment is not the Roman Catholic Church.
Please, you don’t expect white woman, even a lesbian, to be selected? Race (Black) triumphs over gender and sexuality in PC world.
I bet it’s going to be Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth or Correta Scott King (This pick will be roundabout way of recognizing MLK)
And how about St. Frances Xavier Cabrini? A lovely woman both physically and metaphysically.
Well, come on. COBOL is a punchline. And her involvement in that mostly consisted of taking credit for the work of others.
Why not a three or eight dollar bill? Lots of great places for new faces if there’s a bill for every buck.
a whole panoply of female saints that every Catholic child (which means
practically everyone on the Continent) knows about. Examples:
- Joan of Arc (France), of course
- Clare of Assisi (Italy), companion of St. Francis
- Teresa of Avila (Spain), mystic and doctor of the Church
- Catherine Labouré (France), mystic
- Bernadette Soubirous (France), one of the visionaries at Lourdes
- Therese of Lisieux (France), mystic
- Faustina Kowalska (Poland), mystic
and a couple of women who so far have been beatified:
- Blessed Lucia Santos (Portugal), one of the visionaries at Fatima
- Blessed Mother Teresa (Macedonia and Kosovo)
Millions of people venerate them, pray to them, and try to follow
their example but, interestingly, feminists seem to have zero
interest in themReplies: @Intelligent Dasein
Remove from that list Faustina Kowalska (a heretic whose diary was on the Index before being rehabilitated by arch-heresiarch and antipope John Paul II) and Mother Teresa (flaming liberal syncretist nut-job), and I would agree with you.
The post-Vatican II establishment is not the Roman Catholic Church.
How about a new $25 bill for a female just so long as its not that hideous Harriet Tubman scowling back at me. Put Beyonce on it. She has world appeal so the new note would circulate widely. They probably love her in Russia, India, Brazil and North Korea, Burkina Faso and so on
Yes, but Andrea Dworkin will not hold up to close scrutiny when vetting for the banknote, especially for someone who isn’t 100 years dead. Her take on Israel was less than favorable, I’ve read, because the harsh environment made manly soldiers and farmers out of the Israelis, as opposed to the effete and bumbling Woody Allen type (a screen persona even for Woody) which she preferred as a male role model.
Not one great woman, but the type of woman that made America great: the moral, pious, civilizing white woman who settled the north American wilderness.
These are the women who were celebrated back when white Americans fought for their own interests.
http://truesonsofabraham.com/pioneer-mother.htmReplies: @Romanian
I’m sure they will work twerking into that somehow.
You forgot amazing, beautiful woman who had the exquisite bravery of a butterfly flying against the wind!
Flannery O’Conner is my favorite American authoress. Slap her on the nickle.
Is that what they're calling it these days?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne#ModelsReplies: @hodag
Laeticia Casta. Well done , France. Well done.
There already are women on American money: military payment certificates. See some samples here:
http://art-hanoi.com/collection/vnpaper/641.html
You used to be able to buy them from odds and ends shops in downtown Saigon before all the good and cheap old buildings got demolished…
“Another problem is that American history has surprisingly few super high-achieving women.”
Many thanks, Mr. Sailer, for exactly defining what constitutes super high-achieving women, as your metrics are above reproach.
Since this whole thing is a phoney SJW operation let’s start printing three dollar bills and annually rotating the female non-entity portrayed on the front. That way we not only retain the expression, “Phoney as a three dollar bill”, but give it added poignancy. The annual rotation of honored female non-entities would have the added benefit that SJWs will get to expend some of their spleen arguing amongst themselves which SJW heroine should grace the latest issue of the phoney, which I suspect would become the nickname of the new bill.
Yeah, I have two boys, and I am always pointing out to them the fact that the inventors, humanitarians and folks do real good for real people trend heavily white male. I mean, I told my son to go look up on youtube how to change out a turn indicator bulb on his truck. After which, I asked him who took his time to make the video to help another guy. Yep, a white guy. And who takes their time to write all those wiki entries? A lot of white guys. Sure history has some bad white guys, but every race has bad guys. So what. How many really selfless Indians, or Chinese or Africans, Native Americans are out there? Yeah, a really small fraction as compared to white guys.
Now, to return to the subject at hand, if we must put a female's visage on our money, what's wrong with Lady Liberty herself? She's already an established American icon and should b fairly uncontroversial.Replies: @Alice in Wanderland
Oooh, very clever!
I predict that if Alexander Hamilton is replaced with a vibrant hag, lots of Americans will arm themselves with markers and cross her out. It’s illegal, but the law is unenforceable unless only a small number of people do it.
How about Ayn Rand? Born in Russia, she became a naturalized American citizen and loved America. Her great novel, Atlas Shrugged, ends with the hero, John Galt, solemnly making the Sign of the Dollar.
If Frances Perkins’ life story were better known she would be an obvious candidate. A pioneer social worker in her early twenties, she lobbied hard in Albany for better working conditions in factories, against child labor, etc.. The state legislature was controlled by Tammany Hall who were corrupted by business interest bribes, etc., but Perkins, an attractive woman, dressed all in black so she would remind them of their mothers, sisters, and she finally touched them. She had worked for Roosevelt as Governor and impressed him mightily. He asked her to join his administration but she balked, made him promise to support a list of issues she wrote down on a piece of paper. It was basically the New Deal: eight-hour day, workmen’s comp., unemployment insurance, old age benefits. The only thing she didn’t get was national health insurance. It was practically the only promise Roosevelt (who was an almost pathological liar btw, a little like Trump in that regard) ever kept.
Plus Perkins is a fantastic raconteur. If you want the inside gossip of the Roosevelt administration and NY state politics before that, there is no better source than her oral history collected at the Columbia University Oral History Project.
All it would take to get Francia Perkins in place of Jackson is a concerted publicity campaign to put her story before the public. Easily the most influential woman in American history.
P.S. Oh, and did I mention, she was kind of a saint.
My Great Grandfather owned a small bank in Virginia. I have a genuine $20 bill that looks basically the same as the modern $20 bill except that it bears the name of my grandfather’s bank on it. It seems that around 1920 or so, banks could buy US Treasury bonds and have the US Bureau of Printing and Engraving print legal currency backed by the US government bonds the bank purchased with the bank name on the currency. It was a bit of advertising for the bank and a way for the US Treasury to sell its bonds.
If they could do this almost 100 years ago I presume the technology exists today to print legal US currency with your choice of who would be represented on the bill. For example Walmart might want to have its stores make change with dollar bills featuring Sam Walton on them. The US government could charge a premium of a penny or two to produce such bills. Additional seigniorage revenue would come from collectors who would want these ‘trade dollars’ for their collections
Here is the right image for Perkins on the $20 bill: https://goo.gl/3ET2Nq
“If it’s money, shouldn’t businessmen be on the bills?”
I strongly recommend Bernie Madoff for the $3 bill.
Mae West with “Goodness had nothing to do with it.” instead of “In God We Trust”
It would be pretty hard to make this worse, but people are going to do their best.
Of the people on the banknotes, Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin on anything people might actually use, if you replace one it has to be Jackson. Not just because what he did to the Indians, and to the currency itself. You just can't argue that his contributions to the republic were equal to the other five.
Note that Jefferson has already been quietly dropped from the banknotes, just by no longer printing the one that featured him.
I agree that American history and culture is devoid of woman who can be plausibly featured. Sacagawea was a nice try that wound up illustrating the problem. Maybe the best option is Alabama's contribution to the statues in Congress, Helen Keller.Replies: @Ttjy, @WowJustWow, @iffen
Sacagawea is on the dollar coin. They had to purge another woman, Susan B. Anthony, to make room for her, but Susan had fewer oppression points because she was white, so it was still a step up.
We used to have beautiful women on US currency though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_Series#/media/File:US-$2-SC-1896-Fr.247.jpg
And coins:
http://coinauctionshelp.com/Peace%20Grading/1925MS68_PeaceDollar.jpg
Having Andrew Jackson on the 20 is already kind of an F-U to him, given his opinion of central banks.
As American currency are Federal Reserve Notes, they ought to have pictures of the Fed chairmen on them. Yellen on the 1, Fischer on the 5, Alan Greenspan on the 10, and Helicopter Ben Bernanke on the 20.
What’s extra fun is that it isn’t even Sacagawea. No one has a clue what Sacagawea looked like, so they just chose some random multi-culti babe as a model.
We used to have beautiful women on US currency though:
And coins:
$0 dollar bill? I guess inflation is even lower than the government claims.
Put Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth on the opposite side of the $50 from Ulysses S. Grant. That way you can have a white Republican male that fought to end slavery on one side, and two black, Republican women on the opposite side that also fought to end slavery. Added bonus: watch Democrat heads explode.
The choice is Frederick Douglas, hands down; the original angry mo’fo.
” I mean, I told my son to go look up on youtube how to change out a turn indicator bulb on his truck. After which, I asked him who took his time to make the video to help another guy.”
Yes, somebody should do something about how an overwhelming proportion of the free, homemade how-to-fix-your-whatever videos on Youtube are made by white guys.
White guys post them on you tube for "fame", prestige and bragging rights. To display how talented they are. Also altruism as they feel good from helping others AKA hapless schmucks :) Also in some cases might get them new customers when the video viewers live nearby.
I dunno why I didn’t think of her earlier:
Oprah!
Of course they’ll have to waive any requirement that she be dead.
You think I’m kidding, but I’m not. If we must have a black woman we should choose one justly famed for her achievements. There aren’t very many contenders.
Given our modern American culture, and because it’s iSteve, Martine Rosenblatt is the only choice.
I suppose Ann Coulter would never be accepted…
a little more seriously, how about Julia Child?
[ Slap her on the nickle.]
Is that what they’re calling it these days?
This fits the spirit of the age:
http://i61.tinypic.com/34rde6e.jpg
I’d like to replace one Jackson with another: Shirley Jackson. The person who wrote The Lottery and We Have Always Lived In The Castle and The Haunting Of Hill House – that works for me. I’m sure the bills with her on them would make all the other bills in one’s wallet feel uneasy – and hence be a spur to spending as the rest of the bills give off a “get me out of here” vibe. Though I do think the Shirleys would accumulate – so lots of $10 and $50 purchases would be made.
On the other hand, unit472’s suggestion lets everyone in on the fun if we don’t restrict it to banks. You might want to print up a bunch of Jenna Jameson $20 before heading out to certain types of entertainment. Just debit the US Treasury, like you debit the post office when printing postage for packages at home. Certain restrictions may apply.
I’m a believer in the idea that giving people what they want is often the best punishment. Lets give ’em what they want and put women on both the $20 and the $10. No really great American woman genius icon, so we’ll defer to the communist-emulation style of making the everyday man the icon- we’ll put a fat middle-aged white woman cooking in her kitchen on the $10, and a skinny young black woman in the bedroom on the $20.
Khan Academy was started by a Bengali, and the various East Asian wikipedias are quite large. White dominance in current DIY culture is largely a function of the relatively large number of whites compared to Asians in the global English speaking population.
They can create a $3 bill to replace the $1 bill and put Caitlyn Jenner on it. The old saying “as queer as a $3 bill” is politically incorrect these days anyway so there is no problem!
Those white guy videos have helped me 5-6 times. Home, roof and automobile repair. When google bought youtube I thought it was a waste of money. Boy was I wrong. Nothing can beat a how_to_do_it video except a series of photographs sometimes.
White guys post them on you tube for “fame”, prestige and bragging rights. To display how talented they are. Also altruism as they feel good from helping others AKA hapless schmucks 🙂 Also in some cases might get them new customers when the video viewers live nearby.
And an immigrant to boot–perfect!
It would be pretty hard to make this worse, but people are going to do their best.
Of the people on the banknotes, Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Grant, and Franklin on anything people might actually use, if you replace one it has to be Jackson. Not just because what he did to the Indians, and to the currency itself. You just can't argue that his contributions to the republic were equal to the other five.
Note that Jefferson has already been quietly dropped from the banknotes, just by no longer printing the one that featured him.
I agree that American history and culture is devoid of woman who can be plausibly featured. Sacagawea was a nice try that wound up illustrating the problem. Maybe the best option is Alabama's contribution to the statues in Congress, Helen Keller.Replies: @Ttjy, @WowJustWow, @iffen
He held the Union together and he didn’t even need a war to do it.